Impressed by the rapid strides Maharashtra has made in the strawberry plantations, farmers from Meghalaya are looking to recreate the success in their own state.
A 25 member delegation from the Meghalaya was at Mahabaleshwar studying various aspects of the strawberry farming. According to the members of the delegation, the Meghalaya is leading in the tea plantation owing to a very conducive climate. However, the state is not so successful in having the production of starwberry in same measure. He compares the climate of his state to Mahabaleshwar...
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Pune's Blackberry Experiment To Go Global
After having won accolades from the government and people alike, the traff-i-cop experiment started in the city is set to reach to international level. The designers of the Blackberry-based system presented it to a conference in Orlando and countries like Bermuda are looking at it for the implementation.
"Right now Kolkata and states like Assam, Punjab and Gujarat have asked us for the implementation of this system. In a conference at Orlando, US, the company officials had a presentation on this system to which Bermuda has responded positively,”...
Mark Of A Controversy
The jewellery professionals in the city are now up into arms agaisnt a recent directive by the central government to make the hallmark certification mandatory. The professionals have termed this order as an impractical one and say that it will create more problems for the sarafi pedhis.The Union Cabinet had decided in January that all the gold jewelleries sold in the country should bear the Hallmark stamp. Apparently, the decision was taken to ensure the quality and authenticity of the gold jewelleries. A large part of the jewellery sold in the...
Bio-Diversity Map Of India Ready : Kasturirangan
The
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Department of
Bio-technology (DBT) has prepared a biodiversity map of the country
on the landscape level. It has also prepared digitized inventories
of important bio-resources which includes medicinal plants, other
economically important plants, animal, marine and microbial
resources. This map will be instrumental for strategic planning, said
Dr. K. Kasturiranga, member of the planning commission and former
chairman of ISRO.
Dr.
Kasturirangan was speaking after inaugurating the National...
