First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
As a part of a centrally-sponsored scheme non-recommended pesticides were being distributed to farmers in Rajasthan. Farmers were being forced to buy unnecessary pesticides as a part of the subsidy package under the National Horticulture Mission (NHM). These chemicals have not been approved for use in the crops that were being cultivated in the area.
DOWN TO EARTH Protests against resources being acquired for industry form the environment movement of the poor.
The first monitoring was undertaken on August 22, 2008. When the farmers group visited the CETP for sampling, they observed bypass of untreated effluents and the district administration and the pollution control board was informed of the same. On the complaints of the community, the regional officer, Rajasthan State Pollution Control Board and the CETP officials rushed to the site.
State govts are willing to hand land, forest, water over to industry. But more desperately, people all over India have begun to use all available means to contest the usually coercive intrusion of the State into their lives -Ashutosh Mishra South Korean steel giant POSCO's proposed steel plant hangs in virtual limbo. Popular resistance by the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti has rendered land acquisition for the Rs 51,000 crore project-hailed as a foreign direct investment coup-quite impossible.
Increased industrial use of diesel and preference for diesel vehicles has caused the demand for this fuel to accelerate. Subsidies are largely to blame. Three experts debate the fallouts. I S S U E S What are the socioeconomic consequences of the increasing consumption of diesel? Is relative price of diesel or better technology driving the dieselisation of the economy? How can rapid dieselisation be arrested? SUBIR RAHA Former Chairman, ONGC Group of Companies
High procurement: Good strategy or bad arithmetic, examines KP Prabhakaran Nair, agricultural scientist based in Kerala
Kolkata's public transport has to move to CNG
Megha Suri | TNN The reopening of schools after the summer break has thrown the city into a severe CNG crisis. The waiting time at filling stations, which was just 5-10 minutes at the beginning of the year, has increased to an average of three to four hours, leading to serpentine queues and traffic bottlenecks at CNG pumps.
Waterless wheat makes central India 's farmers smile - Savvy Soumya Mishra Time was when Malwa, a region spanning central India , grew wheat that required no irrigation. What it required instead was careful nurturing of the soil to retain its moisture. That was then. Soil preparation began months in advance; chemical fertilizers were unknown and green mulch was the principal soil nutrient.
For small-town India to become big, it will have to boast that it doesn't want to be another Shanghai.