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Pesticides Stop Bees Buzzing And Releasing Pollen, Says Study

The world’s most widely used insecticides harm the ability of bees to vibrate flowers and shake out the pollen to fertilise crops, according to preliminary results fr...

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Sustainable Development

District Collectors Software Solution Helps Farmers Control Urea Use

The district administration of Visakhapatnam is working on a software-based solution to regulate the excessive amount of urea used by farmers. Earlier this year, District C...

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Environment

Honey Bee Extinction Will Change Life As We Know It

Biologists have been warning the agriculture industry about colony collapse disorder (CCD) for more than a decade. Between 2006 and 2007, beekeepers around the US began to ...

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Sustainable Development

In India, Profitable Farming With Fewer Chemicals

The earth beneath Lakshmi Karre’s sparse cotton crop is hard and dry. Dressed in a flowery orange sari, she squats in the large gap between two plants and tugs at som...

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Environment

Honeybees Suffer Learning Difficulties After Ingesting Tiny Quantities Of Pesticides, Study Finds

Honeybees can suffer from “severe” learning difficulties and memory problems after ingesting tiny quantities of a type of pesticide, new research indicates. Bee...

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Environment

This Pesticide Might Be Killing Off Bees

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said residues of the pesticide imidacloprid, which is sold under a variety of brand names, "potentially poses risk to hives whe...

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Sustainable Development

In India, Profitable Farming With Fewer Chemicals

The earth beneath Lakshmi Karre’s sparse cotton crop is hard and dry. Dressed in a flowery orange sari, she squats in the large gap between two plants and tugs at som...

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Sustainable Development

The Path to Sustainable Development: Lessons from the Bhopal Disaster

In the 1960s, UCC used to claim that its aim was to “help make a better life for all of us”. In addition, when it began marketing its pesticide products in Indi...

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Sustainable Development

Has Indian agriculture turned the corner?

Agricultural extension services will have to be centre piece of any future strategy to improve agricultural performance For long Indian agriculture has been beset by two ki...

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Sustainable Development

Why women in India are farming with diverse plants – and without pesticides

In India, many women are planting more than 20 different crops on their farms with nutrition – and not money – in mind. This type of farming stems back to previ...

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