Experts Worry Melting Permafrost May Release More Gas
Oslo: A rise in concentrations of a powerful greenhouse gas over the Arctic after a decade of stability is stirring worries about a possible thaw of vast stores trapped in permafrost, experts said.
Direct Seeded Rice, on which successful experiments were carried out in UP last season, is ready for large-scale cultivation
GG OOD NEWS for growers who were contemplating giving up rice cultivation largely due to non-availability of labourers and scarcity of water.
BHUBANESWAR: Two new rice varieties - Swarna Sub-1 and IR.64 Sub-1 - developed by International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines, combining high-yield potential with high degree of tolerance to submergence, have proved as a boon for flood-prone area farmers of South Asia, including Orissa.
New Delhi: Good news first. If the world restricts its carbon emissions to 190 giga tonnes by 2050, there is 75% chance that it will escape the catastrophic consequences of global warming. The bad news: last year alone, the world emitted more than 9 giga tonnes of carbon by burning fossil fuels and that figure is growing every year.
An area of an Antarctic ice shelf almost the size of New York City has broken into icebergs in April after the collapse of an ice bridge widely blamed on global warming, a scientist said on Tuesday.
Nagpur: After ten long years of research punctuated with technical delays, the Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR) in Nagpur is ready with 20,000 packets of desi Bt cotton seeds for distribution to farmers starting next month.
New Delhi: The Met department on Friday forecast another year of near normal monsoon for the country, predicting 96 per cent rains over the four-month period of June-September. The forecast is likely to bring cheer to farmers as well as the industry as good rainfall is extremely crucial in agriculture dependent India to boost growth in a slowing economy.
