Organic Farming
Organic farming promotes the use of crop rotations, cover crops, and encourages balanced host / predator relationships. Organic residues...
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Indiscriminate Use of Pesticides
Pesticide use started in 1950s in limited areas of agriculture, but later on their use went on increasing rapidly to meet the food...
Silent Spring
Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson published in September 27, 1962, and the book documented environmental...
Jats Who Cultivate Land
The Jat people are a tradionally agricultural community in North India and Pakistan, originally pastoralists in the lower Indus...
History of Agriculture in India
History of agriculture in India dates back to the Indus Valley civilization era and even before that in some parts of southern India. The...
History of Agricultural Research and Education in India
After independence in 1947, there has been a substantial growth in the Indian Agricultural Research System. The Indian Council of...
Control of Field Crop Pests in Alberta
Lady beetle: pray on both nymph and adult stages of aphids, also feed on mealy bugs, scale insect, spider, and mite. Dramatic example;...
Biocontrol of Sugarcane Pests
Insect pests continue to be a major biotic stress on sugarcane in India as they attack the crop from the time of planting until almost...
Sugarcane
Origin: Sugarcane originated in New Guinea where it has been known since about 6000 BC. The cultivated canes belong to two main groups 1....
Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana
Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana pioneered the Green Revolution in India in 1960s. It is a publicly funded agricultural state...
Dr. P N Thapar, First Vice Chancellor of PAU, Ludhiana
Dr. Prem Nath Thapar was appointed the first Vice Chancellor of the new Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana in 1962 and remained...
Ground Water Levels Have Reached a Dangerous Level in Punjab
Groundwater water has been extensively used for irrigation, industries and urban area in Punjab and water tables are falling. Punjab...
Green Revolution
During the 1950s, India was on the brink of mass famine. Dr. Norman Borlaug was invited to India to solve the food problem. Despite...
Soil, Trees and Ecosystem
The soil of North-West India (Punjab, Haryana, and western UP) has degraded due to intensive and monoculture cultivation of crops,...
Dr. Gurcharan Singh Kalkat
Dr. Gurcharan Singh Kalkat (June 17, 1926 - January 27, 2018) was an eminent agricultural scientist, known for his contributions in...
Shri Prem Nath Thapar ICS
In 1962 Shri Prem Nath Thapar, ICS, was appointed the first Vice-Chancellor of Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana by Sardar Partap...
Food Corporation of India
Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru did not want to beg for food grains from America, but he was very keen to make India self-sufficient in...
Sugarcane Breeding Institute Coimbatore
Sugarcane Breeding Institute was established by the British Raj in 1912. The institute was established as a sugarcane research station...
Punjab Agricultural University, Sugarcane Research Station Jalandhar
Sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum, is an important crop of Punjab. It was domesticated in Punjab since the Vedic times. All the sugarcane...
Dr. Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Himachal Agricultural College Solan
The Himachal Agricultural College, Solan was established in 1962 and affiliated with the Punjab University Chandigarh. Dr. S.S. Jain,...
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