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El Nino fear pushes farmers in Srikakulam and Vizianagaram towards water-saving paddy methodsFarmers in Andhra Pradesh's Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts are shifting to water-saving rice farming techniques. Facing potential El...- A town divided: Inside Perumbavoor’s migrant flashpoint, where drugs, fear and politics collideA signboard in Perumbavoor, Kerala, warns against drug peddling and prostitution, highlighting tensions between local residents and migrant...
- Centre issues model rules to ease tree felling on agricultural land, boost agroforestryTo boost agroforestry and double farmers' income, the Centre has introduced model rules for tree felling on agricultural land. These rules ...
- EAC-PM suggests deregulating timber cultivation; proposes measures to make India a net exporterThe Economic Advisory Council to the PM has recommended deregulating the felling and transit of high-value timber trees like Teak, Gurjan, ...
- Don't criminalise our traditional recreationThe law criminalised the fruit and flower of cannabis but not the leaves used for making bhang, and its possession and consumption is not i...
- Sadhguru urges govt to encourage agroforestry“Agroforestry should be brought under the agriculture ministry and treated as full-scale cultivation just like how farmers grow crops on th...
- Extinction watch: MahoganyThe species is famous for its rich, red timber. At first, mahogany was used by the Spanish and English to build ships. Then came its use in...
- Budget 2019: 80 business incubators, 20 technology incubators to be set up in 2019-20In coming times, Government is to focus on transforming anandata(food cultivator) into urjadata (power generator), she said.
- Make own strategy to double farmers' income: Centre to statesNot only productivity of various crops needs to be raised, but also focus on allied farm activities like timber cultivation and honeybee cu...
- Brewery wastewater turned into energy storage cellsNew York, Oct 8 (IANS) Researchers have developed a manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater ...
- PM Narendra Modi launches new channel for farmers offering weather information, new agricultural techniquesPM launched DD Kisan, which will telecast special programmes on weather, farmer issues, commodities markets, new farming techniques among o...
- Shipping Corporation of India launches service to MyanmarThe "Look East Policy', started in early 1990s, entails cultivation of extensive economic and strategic relations with the Southeast Asian ...
- Tamil Nadu's forest college moots insurance scheme for tree plantationsHere’s something for farmers who cultivate trees with commercial value to cheer. The Forest College and Research Institute at Mettupalayam ...
- New laws for old: Forest rights and red-tape wrongsIt is a little known fact that in roughly a fifth of our country's land area, a different legal system operates.
- Last of the sandalwood?Veerappan's exit has made little difference to the prized forests of Karnataka.
- Forest cover increases in Orissa by 100 sq kmForest cover has increased by 100 square kilometers (sq kms) during 2005-07 thanks to pro-active Village Forest Protection Committees (VFPC...
- Kerala farmers reap rich harvest from eucalyptusCultivation of eucalyptus is catching on in Kerala’s Wayanad district, where cash strapped farmers find it a profitable venture.
- HPL Penciling a success storyHindustan Pencils (HPL), one of the largest pencil manufacturers in the country, which manufacturers pencils and stationery products under ...
- Forest ministry unveils 4 new projectsThe Minister of State for Environment & Forests, Namo Narain Meena has said that four new projects for sustainable forestry and its managem...
- ‘Empower women to manage resources'The government has suggested to empower women to ensure sustenance of natural resources..
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