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Cippy Integrated Pest Management & Nutrient Management
In agriculture, integrated pest management (IPM) is a pest control strategy that uses a variety of complementary strategies including: mechanical devices, physical devices, genetic, biological, cultural management, and chemical management.
And the main objective of Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) is to ensure adequate availability of quality fertilisers to farmers through periodical demand assessment and timely supply, promoting integrated nutrient management, which is soil test based, judicious and balanced use of chemical fertilisers in conjunction with organic manures and bio-fertilisers, promotion of organic farming and ensuring quality control of fertilisers through implementation of Fertiliser (Control) Order, 1985.
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ARGENTINA: Turning Wasteland into Woodland
In Santiago del Estero, one of the Argentine provinces hit hardest by deforestation and desertification, an oasis of native tree species is being created to restore the soil and entice back farmers who were forced to leave their land.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
ANGOLA: Changing More than Policies
She may have been little-known in political circles until now, but by putting herself forward as the first female independent presidential candidate, Luisete Macedo Araújo (50) has thrust herself into the limelight.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
Israeli Concessions on Gaza Fall Short of a New Policy
Israel's announcement Thursday that it would ease the
restrictions on goods entering Gaza has been received by NGOs
and the international community as a move in the right
direction, but as not going far enough in lifting the Israeli
siege on the Gaza Strip.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
Swiss Plan to Gag Refugees
Only two years after its last revision, the Swiss Asylum Act is about to be
'reformed' again. The changes include a gag order on political activism for
asylum-seekers and a modification of the concept of a refugee.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
RIGHTS-SINGAPORE: Hung Up on the Death Penalty
"The strict laws in Singapore have been made fun of, but crime, especially
serious ones like murder and drug trafficking, are no laughing matter," said Ivan
Tan, a 24-year-old undergraduate.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
EU Considering Aid to Israeli Military
A leading Israeli supplier of warplanes used to kill and maim civilians in Gaza is
in the running for two new scientific research grants from the European Union.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
Israel Navigates Between Inquiries
Israel's easing of its land blockade of Gaza is unlikely to lessen international pressure for a change in its policies towards the Palestinians. Nor can Israel be expected to give up its battle to undermine Hamas' control of the Gaza Strip.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
CHINA: Feeling Lost, ‘Homowives’ Often Struggle Alone
Wang Yibing had been married three years before she found out her husband
was gay. He had known all along, yet, like many homosexual men in China, had
chosen to enter into a traditional marriage to reduce the pressure he was feeling
from his family and society.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
INDIA: Farmers Push Comeback of ‘Cereal of the Poor’
Eshwarappa Banakar has been a farmer most of his adult life, but these days he
has also turned banker – banker of seeds, that is, and especially of millet strains.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
LIBYA: Death Penalty Falls Heavily on Migrants
The Libyan government handed over 276 prisoners to authorities from neighbouring Niger on Jun. 17. But none of the dozen or more Nigeriens facing the death sentence in Libya were among them.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
ENERGY: Brazilian Dams in Peru's Jungle, to Supply Brazil
An energy deal that Peru and Brazil signed this week in the Amazon city of Manaus in Brazil is opposed by environmentalists and local indigenous communities in Peru where the planned hydroelectric dams will be built. What is at stake?
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
UNDP Unveils Agenda to Spur Anti-Poverty Goals
After an economic assessment of some 50 countries, the U.N.
Development Programme (UNDP) has come up with a "concrete
action agenda" to accelerate progress towards the achievement
of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
Critical Media Hit by Legal Actions in Venezuela
Guillermo Zuloaga, owner of the Globovisión television channel has fled Venezuela to avoid an arrest warrant issued by a court a week after President Hugo Chávez complained that Zuloaga was not being held in prison pending trials for illegal business practices, and for remarks that were deemed "offensive" to the president.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
Obama Still Globally Popular, But Doubts Grow in Muslim World
While U.S. President Barack Obama has largely retained huge
popularity among most of the world's publics, disillusionment
with his leadership appears to have set in throughout much of
the Islamic world, according to the latest annual survey of
global public opinion by the Washington-based Pew Research
Centre released here Thursday.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
LATIN AMERICA: Photos a Leveller for Maids and Their Employers
Fifty pairs of women -- maids and their employers -- from Argentina, Chile and
Colombia abandoned their daily routines to pose for photographs for a project
about the hierarchical relationship that unites them.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
PAKISTAN: Women Intensify Push to Pass Law Against Acid Attacks
KARACHI, Pakistan, May 31 (IPS) - Almost seven years after Naila Farhat, 20, became
another victim of an acid
throwing attack by a spurned suitor,
she is finally seeing more vigorous efforts
toward the passage
of a law seeking to amend existing legislation to reinforce
protection of women against violent assaults.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
Young People Blurring Borders
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 30 (IPS) - Incorporating young people into the task of
fostering understanding between people of various cultural and
religious backgrounds is one of the four priority areas of the
Alliance of Civilisations.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
PAKISTAN: Lake Disaster Triggers New Displacements
KARACHI, Pakistan, May 30 (IPS) - Up until Saturday the Attabad Lake in northern
Pakistan had been rising one
metre every day and was thus on the
verge of breaking its banks, observed
Lieutenant General Nadeem
Ahmed, chairman of the National Disaster
Management Authority
(NDMA).
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
Taking Stock of the International Criminal Court
KAMPALA, May 30 (IPS) - The first Review Conference of the International
Criminal Court will open in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on May
31. The conference is the first opportunity to propose amendments
to the treaty that established the ICC, the Rome Statute, and to
assess the implementation and impact of the ICC.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News
Difficult Times Call for Dangerous Jobs
GAZA CITY, May 30 (IPS) - Life can be hard working in these tunnels, and it
is always at risk. But many have
no choice but to work in them,
particularly since mid-2007, when Israel and
Egypt, with the
help of the international community, imposed a siege of
staggering severity on the 1.5 million humans in the Gaza Strip.
Categories: World Environment & Agriculture News