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.
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Inheritance of Genetic Characters
Parental traits are transferred from one generation to other generation by means of chromosomes, DNA, or Genes.
HEC to make Wind Turbines
The Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC), Ranchi, Jharkhand has decided to make turbine for generating electricity from the Wind Energy. For this HEC has decided to take technology from the Sky Wind, a company of Germany.
Sida Plant :The Ethnoherbological and Medicinal Values
Sida is a shrubby plant which belongs to Malvaceae, a family of flowering plants. It grows in the wild in different types of habitats like overgrazed lands, roadsides; along the sides of walls of old buildings etc.
International Initiatives for Environment
A number of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or non-governmental agencies have been playing their important roles in spreading Environmental Awareness across the globe and in developing policies for the protection of environment and sustainable development.
Governments Slow on Purchase of Rice
By this first week of December, paddy is coming home from fields in most of the states of India. In spite of claims of Government’s preparations on ground levels are still incomplete. Agencies have been reported to interfere in the process. They are pretending that they are unwilling to purchase rice due to more than 17% moisture in grains
Major atmospheric pollutants
Substances that cause pollution of air are called as air- pollutants or atmospheric pollutants. These are fine Primary Pollutants that contribute more than 90 percent of global air pollution. These fine pollutants are carbon monoxide (CO); Nitrogen oxides (NOx); Sulphur oxides (Sox) and particulates. These pollutants can be put into two broad categories A. Gaseous Pollutants, and B. Particulates.
Play as a way to Social Negotiations
Play is a powerful tool that can be applied for social negotiations.
Eat Breads of Pearl Millets to Enhance Immunity
The bread of maize and vegetable of mustard leaves during winter are popular food items. Their popularity originates basically from the Punjab state of India.
The Limit of Tolerance of Environment
We have been hearing about environmental pollution, loss of biodiversity, energy crisis, and the sustainable environment since long. So many things have already been infused in school syllabi as well. But how many of us really apply in our real life the things about which we have read in our classes?
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.
Landfilling and Incineration
Land-filling is the process of disposing solid waste in low lands or into trenches through proper sanitary methods. It involves- collection, transport, compaction, etc. processes along with proper management for gas-outlet etc. For land filling, the important thing to be taken into account is the distance of waste collection site to the waste dumping site, because it involves cost of transportation.
