On the outskirts of Jaipur is the 5-year-old, 30-acre Anokhi Farms, perhaps the largest in Rajasthan utilising Israeli drip irrigation technology. Owner John Singh, a garment exporter, was impressed

A new method has been adopted to measure water pollution

By allowing industrial plantations on forest land, the ministry of environment and forests has become profiteering industry's captive

* User agencies (read industries) will have the right to take up plantation on forest land and to get a stipulated proportion of the produce. br> * Funds for plantation will come from the user

Recently developed hybrid true potato seeds are ideally suited to subtropical climates and are highly disease resistant

Differential metering of peak and low load consumption might jolt the power sector out of the red

The setting up of a high-powered Himalayan Development Authority has run into rough weather. A committee headed by Planning Commission member S Z Qasim, set up in March 1992 to address the problems

Altering the structure of peptides can fashion them into loyal and hard to beat soldiers of the body's immune syustem