MADURAI: The T. Kallupatti biomass power unit project is just one of the measures taken by the Commissionerate of Town Panchayats to promote green energy.
MADURAI: T. Kallupatti, 50 km from here, may appear yet another sleepy small town in the State. But what is less known is that it is one of the four town panchayats identified for a pilot project for biomass power.
Awareness programme: Jessie Jeyakaran, Member, International Zoo Educator Associaton, South Asia Network, left, at the biodiversity conservation programme.
MADURAI: In the global movement towards conservation of biodiversity, the students of a Madurai school on Wednesday began to make a small contribution.
ALL EYES ON AGRI-FRONT: Collector S. S.Jawahar giving away saplings raised at community nurseries to farmers at Pattinam village as part of the IAMWARM scheme.
MADURAI: A major NABARD-funded project to replenish ground water levels by creating artificial recharge structures has taken off in the district. More than 34,175 dug wells have been identified tentatively in seven blocks, where ground water levels are low.
THE biggest impediment in reviving the ooranies in the state seems to be encroachments, which have rendered the water bodies dry.
At least 70 per cent of the 431 village ponds in Madurai district are rain fed and the rest are fed with water discharged from the Periyar for irrigation. Most of them have become useless, with indiscriminate encroachments.
In order to address some issues faced by small farm holders, Agrarian Development Institute for Sustenance and Improved Livelihood (ADISIL), a Madurai based NGO, with the support of Svaraj, has revived an innovative, traditional technology, i.e. raised bed farming. Raised bed farming is the practice of using complex terraces of elevated earth to grow vegetables, it is done simply by forming a bed of topsoil that lies about 6 inches to 10 inches above the rest of the ground. Generally this bed is 3 feet wide and 8 feet to 10 feet in length.
S. Sundar It will help to halve quantum of waste coming from houses Average quantum of waste generated from each household is around 2.5 kg Each district will have at least one plastic recycle unit MADURAI: A comprehensive solid waste management policy is on the anvil to halve the waste generated by houses in town panchayats by 2015, K. Gopal, Commissioner, Town Pachayats, has said.
Jacquelyn Hayes highlights a method for better biogas production biogas plants don't function well when ambient temperatures are low and hence remain out of use for the greater part of the year
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