Tamil Nadu

Compiling information

A unique database on mangroves -- the Mangrove Ecosystem Information Service (MEIS) -- developed by the Centre for Research in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development (CRSARD) in Madras, will

Publication Date:

14/11/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Mangroves, Genetic Resources, Rural Development, Goa, Orissa (Odisha), Tamil Nadu, Sustainable Development

Mining

Tubelights give more than light to labs

Used tubelights can now be recycled into laboratory apparatus that are cheap and as good as those available in the market.

Publication Date:

14/10/1993

Author(s): S Rajendran

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

2

Issue:

19931015

pp:

0

Tags:

Scientists, Tamil Nadu

India

Sticking to tamarind

CHEMICALLY treated tamarind seeds can provide an adhesive stronger than those commercially available, claim scientists of the College of Agricultural Engineering, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University,

Publication Date:

29/09/1993

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agricultural Research, Tamarind, India, Tamil Nadu

Wildlife

Home range of elephants in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, South India

Ranging behaviour of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) was studied using radio telemetry in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve had home ranges of over 500 sq km. These sizes are much larger than those defined by earlier studies. The study ranged across the three southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka.

Publication Date:

01/06/1993

Author(s): N Baskaran, M Balasubramanian, S Swaminathan & et al

Source: Bombay Natural History Society

Tags:

Elephant, Nilgiri, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Wildlife Management, Nilgiri Tahr SA, Mudumalai SA, Bandipur NP, Wynad SA

India

Women engineers come to the forefront

DESPITE sex-role conditioning by teachers and traditional attitudes that rule out floor and site jobs for women, the number of Indian women taking to engineering has increased manifold in the period

Publication Date:

Saturday, January 30, 1993

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

Issue:

pp:

Tags:

Women, Scientists, Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT), Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Statistics, Electronics

India

Irula tribals put their skills to new uses

Institutional support helped rehabilitate the Irulas of Tamil Nadu after their traditional occupation of snake catching was outlawed.

Publication Date:

30/12/1992

Author(s): S Gopikrishna Warrier

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19921231

pp:

0

Tags:

Afforestation, Tribals, Wildlife Act 1972, India, Tamil Nadu

India

Subabul biscuits boost milk yield

Cattle fed with subabul biscuits can produce up to 20 per cent more milk. The fast growing tree also produces useful timber.

Publication Date:

30/12/1992

Author(s): S Rajendran

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Cattle, Milk, Trees, Rural Habitat, India, Tamil Nadu

India

Insistence on dollar payments delays ocean power project

A US firm proposing to set up a project off the Tamil Nadu coast that will supply electricity and potable water from the ocean wants to be paid in dollars. Officials say this is equivalent to importing electricity.

Publication Date:

14/12/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Electricity, Ocean Thermal Energy, Technical Cooperation, India, Tamil Nadu

India

Gender roles among the Mukkuvar fisherfolk

THIS REMARKABLE book transcends the crucial limitations of both Marxist social theory and conventional anthropology by consciously avoiding "economism" and "culturism". While recognising "the

Publication Date:

14/12/1992

Author(s): Deepti Priya

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19921215

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Women, India, Tamil Nadu, Fisherfolk