Punjab

New biomass model may help monitor crop damage, health

india suffers considerable losses due to crop damage every year. assocham has pegged this loss at Rs 140,000 crore for 2006-07. Unfortunately, there is no way to ascertain whether this or similar

Publication Date:

29/09/2007

Author(s): Archita Bhatta

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Post Harvest Losses, Biomass, Farmers, Compensation, India, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab

Agriculture

Punjab's depleting groundwater stagnates agricultural growth

the Punjab state farmers commission has recently asked the state government to make delayed-sowing of rice mandatory. The move comes at a time when agriculture in Punjab is facing its worst spell

Publication Date:

30/07/2007

Author(s): Bidisha Kumar

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Plant Breeding, Rice, Groundwater, Tubewells, Water Management, Water Policy, Water Distribution, Water Demand, Irrigation, Groundwater Irrigation, Farmers, Electricity, Legislation, India, Punjab, Statistics

Environment

Regulating living environment for public safety

it is unusual for the powerful real estate lobbies to be brought to their knees in India. But such a thing happened in Gujarat in 2002. The high court was hearing a petition on saving the lakes of

Publication Date:

14/07/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

16

Issue:

20070715

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Urban Habitat, Urban Development, Urban Planning, Urban Housing, India, Chandigarh, Gujarat, Ahmedabad (D), Punjab, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)

Industry

Property industry in trouble in Punjab

Property buyers in Punjab are in a fix, as are financiers and builders with housing construction projects in Panchkula and Mohali, satellite towns of Chandigarh. One of the most

Publication Date:

14/07/2007

Author(s): Minti Jain

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Urban Water Supply, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Urban Development, Urban Planning, Urban Housing, Urban Sanitation, Industry, High Court, India, Chandigarh, Punjab

Agriculture

Colonializing Agriculture, a review

Book>> Colonializing Agriculture, The Myth of Punjab Exceptionalism

Publication Date:

14/04/2007

Author(s): Suhit Sen

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20070415

pp:

0

Tags:

Land Resources, Land Ownership, Agriculture, Water Distribution, Water Demand, Irrigation, India, Punjab

Agriculture

Phorate poisoning affects people in Jalandhar, Punjab

In the last week of July, most of the residents in the village Salkiana in Jalandhar, Punjab, experienced suffocation and breathlessness, following the spray of a deadly pesticide phorate in a nearby

Publication Date:

14/09/2006

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20060915

pp:

0

Tags:

Agriculture, Pesticides, Health Effects, Child Health, Punjab

Agriculture

Housing more funds

Warehousing Bill, a double edged sword for farmers

Publication Date:

14/04/2006

Author(s): Sourav Mishra

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Farmers, Finance, Legislation, Haryana, Maharashtra, Punjab

Energy

The paper deals with the technical and financial performance and the reforms process in the power utility of Punjab. Technical as well as financial performance of the utility has been found unsatisfactory, mainly due to the lack of commercial outlook and unaccountable and unnecessary political interference in the functioning of the utility.

Publication Date:

01/03/2006

Author(s): Kulwant Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Surinder Kumar

Source: Man & Development

Vol:

28

Issue:

1

pp:

39

Tags:

Energy, Power Industry, State Electricity Board (SEB), Punjab