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Ashes to bricks [1]

An advocate of natural farming methods for more than a decade, Kanchipuram-based Gandhi Gopalakrishnan was shocked to see lush mango farmland turning infertile by the dumping of rice husk ash (RHA). "The farmers are deceived by claims that RHA helps the fertility of the soil, when the contrary is true," he says.

Publication Date: 
26/04/2010
S. Senthil Kumar [2]
India Today (New Delhi) [3]
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Ecolabelling [4], Bricks [5], Fly Ash Bricks [6], NGO [7], India Today (New Delhi) [3], S. Senthil Kumar [2]
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