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 …
Huhud crop recovery Advice-1
#Hudhud #CropAdvisory #eKrishi On the fateful day of 12th October, 2014 a severe cyclone HudHud has stuck the north coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh. Twenty one people in Andhra Pradesh and 3 in Odisha have lost their lives. Thousands of acres of paddy fields, banana, coconut, cashew and mango orchards are severely damaged. Over 250,000 people …
Farmers Suicides Telangana
List of Farmers Suicides in Telangana state since 2nd June, 2014 141010 TELANGANA FARMER SUICIDES
Salt tolerant potatoes to make a big difference for farmers in saline areas
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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Issue Food security cards & Old age pensions
[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. …
Non-Pesticidal Management of Pests: Status, Issues and Prospects – A Review
A working paper by Centre for Economics and Social Studies, Government of Andhra Pradesh Download the report Non-Pesticidal Management of Pests: Status, Issues and Prospects – A Review
Gateway to fair prices
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 …