If waste is not separated properly, it all gets mixed up in landfills. Waste segregation basically means keeping wet and dry wastes separately so that dry can be recycled and wet waste can be composted. With rapid urbanisation, the country is facing massive waste management challenge. Over 377 million urban people live in 7,935 towns …
Woman empowerment is the key to ensure that India successfully reduces the existing unmet need among its women and achieves its goal of population stabilisation soon. India has had one of the largest and longest running family planning programmes in the world. Yet we are unable to meet the contraceptive needs of our people, which …
Survival of any species depends on the suitable physical/external environment, sufficient quantity of material resources and useful services. The natural environment and resources have to be in a balance of their own, which is inevitable for the sustenance of any economy. The so called modern development has exerted such pressure on resources and environment that …
In the span of a decade beginning in 2007, the industry has grown exponentially in size from about $2 billion to over $11 billion in terms of revenue. Over the last two-to-three decades, the major success story of the Indian economy has been the stellar growth of its IT industry. But as the dividends from …
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Addressing the knowledge gap among smallholders can significantly improve productivity, farmer prosperity, and environmental sustainability all at the same time In March 2018, Nature magazine published a groundbreaking 10-year study by China Agriculture University involving millions of smallholder farmers adopting enhanced practices. Through a scaled, countrywide effort, farm productivity rose by 11% while the use of nitrogen …
