Lakshmi Vijayakumar SNEHA and Voluntary Health Services, Adyar, Chennai, India,dr_svk@vsnl.com R. Satheesh-Babu Mamata Medical College, Khammam, India Abstract Introduction: Ingestion of pesticides is the most common method of suicide, particularly in China, Sri Lanka and India. Reported pesticide suicides in India numbered 22,000 in the year 2006.z Method: Four villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh in …

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Humble spud poised to launch a world food revolution Dutch team is pioneering development of crops fed by sea water Marc van Rijsselberghe with some of his experimental crop of salt-tolerant potatoes. Photograph: Observer In a small army field-hut Dr Arjen de Vos shows off his irrigation machine with pride. Pipes lead out to several acres …

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[2014 telangana social security] download Telangana government has issued a GO  giving guidelines to identify the beneficiaries and remove ineligible persons/families. some of the series issues are 1. only one person will be given the old age pension in a family 2. the survey will use the ‘samagra kutumba survey’ data and will be cross checked. …

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VENKAT IYER Ready to eat: The supply chain for organic produce has long been hampered by poor linkages between farms and consumers Grower and buyer find each other directly on the Eco-Farmers Market info-exchange portal Maridesi Here Gowda of Mandya District, Karnataka, has for seven years now grown sugarcane without using pesticides on his two …

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