IIT Madras: Now, silver ‘grows’ in paddy fields
A rice variety originally from West Bengal is able to accumulate high concentration of the metal in its grain. It is a rice variety with a silver touch, literally. Garib-sal…
Category: Agriculture
Farmer suicides in India may be linked to climate change
The increase in temperature during the cropping season reduces crop yields, thus resulting in increased suicides. Climate change has led to over 59,000 farmer suicides over the last 30 years…
Indian researcher uses novel strategy to increase wheat yield, improve resilience to drought
Using a novel route, an Indian researcher has been able to increase wheat grain yield by 20% and also improve the resilience of wheat to environmental stress such as drought.…
Tamil Nadu researchers show chronic exposure to commonly used insecticide causes diabetes
A study by scientists at Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu, India, has found evidence that long-term exposure to organophosphate insecticides induces diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance in both mice and…
IIT Gandhinagar develops irrigation maps of India
For the first time, high-resolution maps of irrigated areas across India from 2000-2015 have been prepared using remote sensing data. The maps were validated with ground-based survey data. High-resolution irrigated water…
