India

 What exactly are cattle fed?

In Punjab, too much limestone powder and urea: adulteration hardly a bother for feed makers

Publication Date: 
29/06/2005
Vikas Parashar
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pesticides, Animal Nutrition, Animal Feed, Animal Diseases, Cattle, Limestone, Hazardous Products, India, Punjab
Water Resources

 Summer's here

Punjab and Rajasthan at court war over water

Publication Date: 
14/06/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Supreme Court, High Court, Punjab, Rajasthan
India

 RESIDUE OF A REVOLUTION

Bhola Singh is dead... Bhola Singh was a farmer from village Balloh, district Bhatinda, Punjab. He is part of a story with a beginning and an end. But it has no middle. Thus what

Publication Date: 
14/06/2005
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Agriculture, Health Effects, Cancer, Farmers, Blood, Research, India, Punjab, Statistics
Climate Change

 NGO study, government lingo <br>

Root to canopy, Regenerating forests through community-state partnership

Publication Date: 
30/05/2005
Richard Mahapatra
Down to Earth
Tags:
Forest Resources, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Panchayats, NGO, India, Punjab
Water Resources

 The lie of the land

The Bhakra Nangal project s success is rooted in myth, says a new study

Publication Date: 
30/05/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Waterlogging, Water Resources, Dams, Bhakra, Irrigation, India, Haryana, Punjab, Statistics
Pesticides And Toxins

Analysis of pesticide residues in blood samples from villages of Punjab

Pesticides have become integral part of villagers in Punjab. Bhatinda district in Punjab, an important cotton belt of the country irrigated by canal water grows largely cotton and rice crop

Publication Date: 
01/03/2005
& et al, H. B. Mathur, H. C. Agarwal, Sapna Johnson
Centre for Science and Environment
Tags:
Pesticides, Health Effects, Blood, Acute Toxicity, Chronic Toxicity, Pesticide Residues, Punjab, Diseases
Industry

 Bright futures

Punjab farmers can get higher wheat prices now

Publication Date: 
14/02/2005
Vikas Parashar
Down to Earth
Tags:
Wheat, Farmers, Finance, Punjab
India

 E savvy

Land Records

Publication Date: 
14/02/2005
Down to Earth
Tags:
Finance, India, Punjab
Poverty

 Disconnect

Today, it is accepted that farm mechanisation is an unavoidable imperative. For productivity must be increased. But

Publication Date: 
30/10/2004
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Agricultural Systems, Agricultural Inputs, Agricultural Machines, Tractors, Farmers, Poverty, Technology, China, India, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh
Energy

 In hot water

Jal Chetna Yatra

Publication Date: 
30/08/2004
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Distribution, Haryana, Punjab

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