Animal Care

Bird flu: samples from Sikkim test negative

Gangtok: The fear of spread of bird flu in different areas of Sikkim was allayed as the blood samples of chickens who had died recently at Maaling in North district tested negative in the Animal Disease Diagnostic laboratory in Bhopal, an animal husbandry department official said on Thursday.

Publication Date: 
30/01/2009
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Avian Flu, Poultry, Sikkim
Animal Care

Bird flu confirmed in Sikkim

CORRESPONDENT
GANGTOK, Jan 22

Publication Date: 
23/01/2009
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
Avian Flu, Poultry, Sikkim
Habitat And Urbanisation

Yangang all set for tourism

CORRESPONDENT
YANGANG, Jan 21

Publication Date: 
22/01/2009
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
Habitat And Urbanisation, Tourism, Sikkim
Animal Care

Bird flu spreads to Sikkim, 3rd state to be hit

Health Ministry Rushes Team
Kounteya Sinha | TNN

New Delhi: The Union health ministry has rushed a three-member team from the National Institute of Communicable Diseases to Sikkim after it became the third state in the country to report an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu this year.

West Bengal and Assam are already reeling under an outbreak.

Publication Date: 
21/01/2009
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Avian Flu, Poultry, National Institute of Communicable Disease (NICD), Sikkim
Agriculture

Workshop on organic farming begins

GANGTOK, Jan 20

Publication Date: 
21/01/2009
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
Agriculture, Organic Farming, Indian Council Of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Sikkim, Gangtok
Animal Care

Avian flu hits Sikkim, culling to start soon

Gangtok, Jan. 19: Confirming outbreak of bird flu in Sikkim

Publication Date: 
20/01/2009
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Avian Flu, Poultry, Sikkim, Gangtok
Agriculture

Orange production growing in NE

The Department of Agriculture and Cooperation is implementing a Centrally-sponsored Scheme on Technology Mission for integrated development of horticulture in North- eastern States (TMNE) including Sikkim since 200-02.

Publication Date: 
19/01/2009
Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
Tags:
North East, Agriculture, Horticulture, Orange, Sikkim
Agriculture

Indigenous knowledge on bio-resources management for livelihood of the people of Sikkim

Sikkim is not self-sufficient in food production due to limited land availability for cultivation and lower level of productivity affected by constraining mountain specificities such as inaccessibility, fragility and marginality. The people are rich in indigenous knowledge on bio-resources and supplemented their food from the wild plants and animals in the beginning.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
J R Subba
Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge
8
1
56
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Systems, Shifting Cultivation, Food Supply, Deforestation, Traditional Knowledge, Sikkim
Biodiversity

Medicinal plants in conservation and development: case studies and lessons learnt

Traditional medicine, based largely on herbs, still supports the primary healthcare of more people worldwide than

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
& et al, Alan Hamilton, Gerald Eilu, Archana Godbole
Plantlife International
Tags:
Traditional Knowledge, Herbal Medcine, Medicinal Plants, Plant Biodiversity, Community Groups, Kenya, Uganda, China, Nepal, Pakistan, India, Sikkim, Ladakh, Darjiling
Wildlife

Indigenous knowledge of Lepcha community for monitoring and conservation of birds

The non-professional volunteers are commonly used in biodiversity assessment due to lack of experts. The bird identification skills of indigenous Lepcha community have been recognized and the accuracy of data generated by them has been assesed. Bird sampling was done using point count method along the transects in three locations in Dzongu, North Sikkim. Two observers, a trained ‘researcher’ and a local Lepcha folk referred as citizen scientist independently sampled birds (species by former and varieties by the latter).

Publication Date: 
01/01/2009
Bhoj Kumar Acharya, Basundhara Chettri, Lalitha Vijayan
Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge
8
1
65-69
Tags:
Lepcha, Birds, Traditional Knowledge, North Sikkim, Sikkim, North East, Biodiversity

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