The Green Revolution and use of high-yielding varieties has led to depletion of vital micronutrients

P N TAKKAR former director of the Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal, and currently principal scientist at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, has been working on micro and secondary nutrients in soil and plant nutrition for the p

Nitrogen is the basic building block of plant and animal proteins, and is essential to all forms of life. But studies in recent times have shown that human activity, including agriculture, energy

Sugarcane cultivation and manure production can go hand in hand

Forest fires can actually lead to enrichment of soil and enhanced growth of vegetation

Farmers living in the upper reaches of Nepal have developed an ingenious way of maintaining soil fertility

While the cultivation of paddy in Punjab (and Haryana) does need some curbing, the extreme forebodings of either total groundwater exhaustion in Punjab or of the state turning into a desert of paddy growing is not curbed forthwith are unwarranted.

DOES eucalyptus harm soil? Environmentalists who say it does may be barking up the wrong tree, says a recent study. A K Srivastav of the Silviculture and Forest Utilisation Division in Rajpipla,

Odisha Public Service Commission - Recruitment to the Post of Assistant Soil Conservation Officer in Class-II, Group-B under Agriculture Department.

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