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Remove all misgivings on GM foods: Pawar tells Scientists

The Indian Minister of Agriculture, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Shri Sharad Pawar has urged agricultural scientists to double their efforts to remove all misgivings regarding GM crops from the minds of policy makers and public. Inaugurating the two-day conference of Vice Chancellors of Agricultural Universities and meeting of Directors of ICAR in New [...]

Safe Pesticide from Deadly Scorpion Venom

Scorpions deliver a powerful, paralyzing venom that immobilize animal prey on the spot. Now scientists are looking into a way to harness the power of Scorpio venom to control pests in an eco-friendly manner. Venom in Scorpions is actually a complex cocktail of poisonous toxins and some of those toxins affects only insects. That’s why [...]

Breakthrough in Bioethanol production from Agricultural waste

With the introduction of a single bacterial gene into yeast, researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands achieved three improvements in bioethanol production from agricultural waste material: ‘More ethanol, less acetate and elimination of the major by-product glycerol’ This week the invention was published in the scientific journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
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New method to measure Snow and Vegetation moisture with GPS

A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers.
The researchers have developed a technique that uses interference [...]

Indian Govt approves 482 Schemes for reclamation of Water logged area

In India, a component of reclamation of water logged areas under the command area development programme was introduced by the Ministry of Water Resources. According to the Ministry, so far 482 schemes of nine states namely Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerela, Maharashtra, Orissa and Uttar Pradesh have been approved for reclamation [...]

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