Malawi economic monitor, February 2024
Watersheds play a crucial role in sustaining the ecosystem, biodiversity, wildlife, agriculture, and human population by serving as the natural resource base for all forms of life. These natural boundaries
Watershed Development
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Centre okays agriculture work plan
The Government of India has approved an agriculture work plan of Rs 22.22 crore for the state for the current financial year.
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Large-scale deforestation causing rise in fatal diseases
Large-scale deforestation is rapidly increasing environmental degradation causing rise in several fatal diseases in Pakistan and efforts should be made to stretch the forest cover to 6percent by 2015 under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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Watershed department to distribute five lakh sapplings in Koppa
The Watershed Department is all set to distribute 5 lakh sapplings of various plants in Koppa, N R Pura and Sringeri taluks. The department had grown sapplings of silver oak, teak, cashew, acacia and jack at their centres in N R Pura, Kalmakki and Balagadi.
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Workshop on Land Management
The Land Management Institute today organised a workshop on monitoring and evaluation of watershed projects for the project implementers. The workshop was organised under the presidency of Vivek Porwal, Director Watershed Mission and inaugurated by Panchayat and Rural Development Department, secretary IS Dani.
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Obama, States Vow Improved Chesapeake Bay Cleanup
President Barack Obama and several state officials on Tuesday announced a renewed effort to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, a once-productive waterway that has seen its crab and oyster populations plunge during decades of failed restoration attempts.
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Myths about small water harvesting systems
The article on water harvesting and artificial recharge in naturally water-scarce regions (30 August 2008) makes a number of assertions about small water harvesting systems that are based on faulty assumptions and inadequate information.
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Pachauri is NAF governing council chief
R.K. Pachauri CHENNAI: R.K. Pachauri, chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and director-general, The Energy and Resources Institute, has taken over as chairman, governing council, National Agro Foundation (NAF), a press release issued by the Foundation said.
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Stakeholders approach for medicinal plants cultivation: A case study from Tamil Nadu
India is recognized as one of the countries having the oldest, richest and most diverse cultural traditions associated with the use of herbal medicines. But due to over-harvesting in their natural habitats, many medicinal plants have been put on the endangered list of IUCN.
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Environmental manifesto
The charter of demands for saving the deteriorating environment by Ecological Society. Disappointed by the lack of proper focus on environmental issues in the manifestos of the political parties, this environmental manifesto is an an outcome of the deliberations held at Paryavaran Parishad held at Pune from 18-19 April 09.
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Arunachal shocked at Chinese stand
New Delhi: Arunachal Pradesh has reacted with shock over China