Integrated Pest Control and IPM Programme
Integrated Pest Management (IPM): Definition, History, Principles, and Implementation According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation,…
Economic Threshold
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Onions of Flowerless Plants: POH-1 Developed in Punjab
The scientists of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana worked for ten years to develop a new High Yielding Variety of onion entitled POH-1.
Soil- its Conservation and Management
Soil is the loose material that covers the land surface of the earth, supports the growth of plants and acts as a habitat for numerous organisms.
Grow Pakad for more oxygen
Pakad or Ficus virens is one significant tree of the Panchvati group. Panchvati is the group of five sacred or important trees worshipped and adorned in the Hindu culture since ancient time.
Relations among components of ecosystem and Food Chains
Green plants and trees that synthesize their own food are called as Autotrophs.Others who depend on them are called as Heterotrophs.
What Indians use cow dung cakes for?
Cattle dung has been used in India to sweep cutcha houses and to make cakes for burning in kitchens. One of the best uses of dung is for making compost etc. manure. Indians, especially Hindus use cow dung for making compost, dung cakes and for religious purposes.
Dynamics of Population
A population is a group of individuals (all members of a single species) who live together in the same habitat and are likely to interbreed. Each population has a unique physical distribution in time and space. It may contain individuals of different ages, and its size (density) is likely to change over time. It grows or shrinks according to the reproductive success of its members.
Major provisions of the Environmental Laws
The development in all sectors of a country is essential to feed its growing numbers and to feed and to…
Questions and Answers on Reproduction Biology Class X
What is the importance of DNA copying in reproduction?
Types of species
Species can be classified in many different ways. One species classification system may categorise species into Typological, evolutionary, and phylogenetic species.
Animal Hormones and Their Secretion
Control and Coordination in animals are performed by the activities of different types of chemical substances. These chemical substances are known as Animal Hormones.
Various Important Alternatives to Deforestation
Deforestation contributes up to 20 percent of greenhouse gas emission which is more than the combined emission by all the cars, trucks, planes, boats and, trains of the world. Deforestation threatens our climate. Besides this, it threatens the livelihoods of 1.6 billion people who depend on forests for food and economic activities. They serve as habitats to rare and so far, undiscovered species of plants and animals. They also play a key role in maintaining water cycles and preventing floods and soil erosion. Hence, forests across the world need urgent measure of protection by all possible ways, may it be through alternatives to deforestation.
