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8 Major Urban Environmental Challenges Faced in India | Ecology

This article throws light upon the eight major urban environmental challenges faced in India. 1. Providing basic environmental services in a way that most effectively protects health: (a) Access to safe potable water, sanitation and drainage facilities. (b) Proper management of solid waste col­lection and disposal. (c) Reduction of pollution within the house­holds by providing cleaner fuel for cook­ing and [...]

By |2016-12-13T19:11:37+00:00December 13, 2016|Environmental Challenges|Comments Off on 8 Major Urban Environmental Challenges Faced in India | Ecology

Joint Forest Management (JFM) in India

This article provides notes on Joint Forest Management (JFM) in India. In 1971, a small experiment over 1250 of de­graded forests called Arabari Socio Economic ex­periment was initiated in Arabari Range, East Midnapore Division of West Bengal. The objec­tive of the experiment was to see whether the de­grading forests in the area could be rehabilitated with fringe people (616 families) [...]

By |2016-12-13T19:11:34+00:00December 13, 2016|Joint Forest Management|Comments Off on Joint Forest Management (JFM) in India

Vegetable Seed Industry in India

After reading this article you will learn about the Current Status of vegetable seed industry in India. India produces about 90 million tons of vegetables (excluding potato, sweet potato, tapioca and including chilli) from about 6.72 million hectares and retains second position after China. With this production and our current population of about 1.10 billion, the availability of vegetables/capita/day comes [...]

By |2016-12-12T07:06:11+00:00December 12, 2016|India|Comments Off on Vegetable Seed Industry in India
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