PREDICTIONS of the Union ministry of agriculture foresee India as the third biggest rice exporter in the world in the next financial year after the us and Thailand. It is estimated that
The Switzerland-based coalitim group, the Blumen-Kampag (Flower Campaign) which campaigns against pesticide usad worldwide has notched xipU-Actory. it-has forced Ciba-Geigy, the
Asia's biggest forestry project - the Rs 795 crare Madhya Pradesh forestry project - has been launched on October 16 in the state. The main aims of the project are to conserve biological
IN ITS new intellectual property policy, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), based in New Delhi has proposed an unusual at portfolio management scheme. pmous scientific
Three independent US resm teams trying to uncover the strau adopted by the malaria parasite sneak past the immune defenses the host, have converged on I same group of genes.
Ecologists in Madagascar are highly worked up about the plans of British conglomerate, Rio Tinto Zinc, to mine 3 littoral forests around Tolanaro, a port in the southern part of the country.
The Cote of Ivoire government has taken a long overdue step to check heedless deforestation. In mid-September, the Forest Protection Council instituted a ban on the export of all
Sri Lankan environmentalists fear that unregulated exports of exotic species of birds and fish could spell big trouble in the y future. Jagath Gurawardena, spokesperson for the Society for
