THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF TOURISM ON MOUNTAIN STATES

Jia Gunthey Intern, Gene Campaign March 2023. The Environmental Impact of Tourism on Mountain States The Mountainous regions of India are suffering a great environmental impact due to the increased tourism. This paper plans to explore the different Mountain States as case studies, showing the impact that tourism has had on the environment of these […]

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Dr. Suman Sahai suggests ways out of farm losses

Crisis in Indian agriculture explained: Why farmers are destroying their tomato crop May 17, 2021, 01:31PM ISTSource: TOI.in For the second year running, prices of tomato and capsicum have crashed drastically at the time of harvest, leading to massive losses for Haryana farmers. Many farmers have resorted to destroying the crop in the fields itself, to […]

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Letter to Chairperson- PPVFRA, about FAQ booklet brought out by the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority and uploaded on official website

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New research at Nalanda University to raise farmer’s income

Assured irrigation from water stored beneath the surface during high rainfall and waterlogging At Rajgir-based Nalanda University in Bihar, a new research entitled “Aquifer Storage & Recovery for Sustainable Agriculture” (ASRA) is being carried out by the School of Ecology and Environment Studies to create a model of “Aquifer Storage and Recovery” (ASR) technology using […]

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ICAR develops 2 new varieties

Government research body Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) on Friday said two superior chickpea varieties have been developed through molecular breeding and are best suited for cultivation in six states. The two varieties — ‘Pusa Chickpea 10216’ and ‘Super Annigeri 1’ — have been developed jointly by ICAR and University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur […]

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ICAR & ICRISAT gave major breakthrough in developing a drought tolerance chickpea

A collaboration between the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and ICRISAT gave us major breakthrough in developing a drought tolerance and disease-resistant chickpea. These are two desi chickpea (Bengal chana) varities namely, ‘Pusa 10216’ and ‘MABC-WR-SA-1’. What makes this accomplishment more unusual is that both varieties were developed in half the conventional time, usually […]

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India Millet Mission campaign to begin in September

India, the largest producer of millets in the world, will launch an intensive campaign to promote the ‘nutri-cereal’ across the country starting from September 28, in Pune. At a meeting held at the Indian Institute of Millets Research in Hyderabad to prepare a roadmap for the national millet mission, Dr Ashok Dalwai, CEO of the National […]

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M S Swaminathan: India must focus on nutrition security

India’s focus needs to shift from food security to nutrition security so that attention is paid not only to calories and proteins but also to micronutrients, renowned geneticist MS Swaminathan said today. He said that if one wants healthy mothers and children, there needs to be eradication of three kinds of hunger — protein hunger, […]

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Dr Suman Sahai: Power, plurality and uncertainty and the global politics of scientific advice

A fascinating talk by Dr Suman Sahai of GeneCampaign containing a powerful indictment of the science of GMOs. She talks about how the need to protect the money and power invested in “dominant paradigms”, such as the Green Revolution, GMOs and Nanotechnology, has skewed our science. When implementing such technologies, lip service is paid to […]

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Farm Friendly: Agriculture needs science, not politics

An impending sustainability crisis looms over India’s agriculture and is beginning to manifest in farmers encountering profound scientific challenges, whose subject matter is fully comprehensible only to a handful of experts, and goes largely unnoticed by policymakers and the political class alike. Yet, its impact on what matters to us most food security and nutrition, […]

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