Indian Farming

He was impressed with traditional Indian farming practices and helped to develop and disseminate the making of compost piles from animal and vegetative waste, as well as the use of leguminous cover crops to improve soil fertility. 

Indian Farming, monthly, 1940. Continuation of Agriculture and Livestock in India. 

This finding was predated by the three-volume report of the Indian Hemp Commission from 1898, when Queen Victoria s government concluded that the smoking of cannabis, or hemp, did not impair the work rates of farm labourers in the Indian subcontinent. However, it should be emphasised that these reports were concerned with old-fashioned natural cannabis, whose THC content was around 1-2% this was the type used by hippies in the 1960s. But, during the 1970s selective plant breeding and hydroponic plant cultures led to increased THC values of around... 

On April 7,2001, the Bureau of Reclamation shut off water for irrigation in the Klamath Basin. The water was needed for salmon and suckerfish, and the Endangered Species Act took priority over Indian treaties and irrigation guarantees. Some 1,500 family-owned farms could not grow crops without the irrigation water. Farmers and agriculture-dependent businesses in the Klamath Basin lost about 200 million. 

Among these unsuspecting benefactors of mankind have been Indians from Amazonian rain forests arrow poisoners from Africa and their cousins, the ordeal poisoners Indians from the Andes Greek peasants the Jesuits of Lima a Chinese emperor hundreds of years before the birth of Christ a Shropshire farm woman, and scores of others. 

Since the early 1980s, human activity along the coastline of India has developed rapidly. People from inland cities and countryside have migrated to near coastal regions to find work and livelihood based on farming, agriculture, fishery and industry. This has invariably added to the direct inputs of various solid materials into the estuaries, inter tidal and coastal areas. The cumulative effect of the PTS residues in Indian coastal environment can be expected to be considerable in view of the fact that 25% of the India s population lives in the coastal areas (Sarkar, 1994). 

Pesticide Action Network UK (2000), Indian cotton farming - study identifies training needs, Pestidde News No 45, http / /www.pan-uk.org/pestnews/Issue/pn45/pn45pi2.htm... 

Another example of epoxy-polysulphide coating application is for the Indian Molasses Co. Ltd tank farm facilities in Mangalore where the nature of the atmosphere is highly corrosive. Several tanks have been coated (Figure 10.8) (Morton International, undated d). 

Certainly one of America s quieter capitals, Dover is a tiny city without much to offer the vegetarian. The healthiest restaurant in town is El Sombrero (655 N. Dupont Hwy., 3 302-678-9445), an odd combination Mexican-and-Indian restaurant with a good selection of meatless specials. The small farms surrounding Dover are Amish, so heading outside of the city you ll find many roadside stands to pick up fresh produce and baked goods. 

Amber Waves (63 Main St., s 413-253-9200) is a casual Main Street eatery with a multi-national Far East menu of Thai noodles, Japanese soups, Vietnamese curries and South Indian dosai. The low prices and huge servings draw in a hungry U Mass crowd. If the vegetables at Amherst Chinese (62 Main St., o 413-253-7835) taste uncharacteristically fresh, it s because during the summer they come straight from the owner s farm. 

McGaughey, W.H. (1985) Evaluation of Bacillus thuringiensis for controlling Indian meal moths in farm grain bins and elevator silos. Journal of Economic Entomology 78, 1089-1094. 

Agriculture Canada, Research Station, Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 3A2, Canada Agriculture Canada, Experimental Farm, Indian Head, Saskatchewan SOG 2K0, Canada... 

Analyses of trace metal and sulfate in pore water provide evidence of diagenetic change in salt-marsh sediment. Rapidly processed cores from the Indian Neck and Farm River sites showed normalized SO4/CI ratios of greater than 1 at certain depths (Table VI). The cores also contained measurable concentrations of dissolved Mn and, at the Farm River site, Fe. The high Mn concentrations seen in Figs. 9 and 10 coincide with the maximum SO4/CI ratio. Other metals were not detected, with the possible exception of trace amounts of Zn in one Indian Neck core. 

Vishwadhar A.K. Sarbhoy. Soybean seed health hazard in different agro-climatic region of India. Indian J. Hill Farming 1994, 7, 192—202. 

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