Environment

Environmental accounting of natural resources of Meghalaya: Phase I - land and forest resources

The main aim of this study is to make an environmental accounting of the land and forest resources available in Meghalaya so as to reflect the real contribution of these resources to the state's economy.

Publication Date: 
31/12/2007
O.P. Singh, B.K. Tiwari, Marvellous B. Lynser & et al
Central Statistical Organisation
Tags:
Environment Economics, Forests, Forest Resources, Forest Products, Biodiversity, Meghalaya, Land Resources
Agriculture

Traditional ecological management of late blight in potato

Farmers' traditional methods for managing the potato late blight in the Meghalaya hills are successful examples of ecological disease management and an established outcome of traditional experimentations. Such farmers' wisdom ought to be given attention in formal research systems. Dec 2007

Publication Date: 
01/12/2007
Shantanu Kumar, Uma Sah, P.H. Singh
Leisa India
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North East, Agriculture, Plant Diseases, Crop Pests, Pest Control, Potato, Farmers, Khasi, Traditional Knowledge, Meghalaya
Agriculture

Ecological pest management for emerging pest problems

Meghalaya, a small state in the North Eastern region of India, is inhabited by different indigenous communities, mainly of Mongoloid origin. Of the approximately 2.3 million population, about 85 percent live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihood.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2007
Dhrupad Choudhury, Bikramjit Sinha, Randhir Singha
Leisa India
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North East, Crop Pests, Terrace Cultivation, Shifting Cultivation, Pest Control, Biological PC, Farmers, Tribals, Traditional Knowledge, Meghalaya, West Garo Hills, West Khasi Hills
Wildlife

Blood on ivory

Northeast's man- war from both sides

S Diwali approaches, villagers in some parts of I Assam and Meghalaya are buying crackers, but for a different reason altogether.

Publication Date: 
12/11/2007
Wasbir Hussain
Outlook (New Delhi)
Tags:
North East, Elephant, People - Animal Conflicts, Assam, Sonitpur, Meghalaya, West Garo Hills
Mining

Dynamics of coal and limestone extraction in Meghalaya: a comparative analysis

Coal and limestone are the two major nonrenewable natural and economic resources of Meghalaya. These have been playing a significant role in the generation of income and employment in Meghalaya.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2007
Utpal Kumar De
North Eastern Hill University
Tags:
Mining, Limestone, Coal, Meghalaya
India

 South Asia

afghan debt relief

Publication Date: 
14/08/2007
Down to Earth
Tags:
Sind, Trade, Floods, Coal, Flood Relief, Imports, World Bank, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Assam, Meghalaya, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Debt
Economy

SEZs: A Catalyst for Growth

How does a country of over a billion people take on the challenge of providing a better life to its citizens?

Publication Date: 
30/07/2007
India Today (New Delhi)
Tags:
Economic Development, Special Economic Zones (SEZ), Government Of India (GOI), Arunachal, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Infrastructure Development
Mining

 Controversy over uranium mining project in Meghalaya

"i don't know what is uranium, I don't know if it's good or bad. I'm only happy that the public hearing went off peacefully,' says Tina Thongenirit from Wakhaji, a village 120 km from Meghalaya's

Publication Date: 
14/07/2007
Maureen Nandini Mitra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Resources, Land Ownership, Mining, Uranium, Health Effects, Development, Displacement, Conflicts, Compensation, Radiation, India, Meghalaya
Mining

Chain reaction

Spility Langrin Lyngdoh took a firm decision in 1994 that she would not give her land for uranium mining. She had heard about the radiation horror stories of Jaduguda village in distant Chhattisgarh.

Publication Date: 
08/07/2007
E.M. Jose
Week (Kochi)
Tags:
Mining, Uranium, Radiation, Meghalaya, West Khasi Hills
India

 Indigenous communities from different parts of the world are related

scientists now have firm genetic evidence that early Austro-Asiatic settlers in India, believed to be the oldest, migrated from here to south-east Asian countries and populated them. These early

Publication Date: 
14/06/2007
Subhra Priyadarshini
Down to Earth
Tags:
Chotanagpur Plateau, Migration, Tribals, Life Science, Research, Asia, India, Meghalaya

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