Posts Tagged ‘agriculture’

New Report on Climate Change Impact Assessment for India Highlights Key Concerns for Northeast

18, Nov 2010

Assessing the impact of climate change on cities, states and nations has always been a challenge. To measure the impacts and forecast its impending results is but a stepping stone in the fight against climate change, to work out sustainable solutions. India has proudly moved forward in the right direction by releasing a major report [...]

Mizoram Bags the IPVM Green Award 2010!

13, Nov 2010

The Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra (IPVM) Awards were instituted in the year 1986 to recognize the pioneering and innovative contribution made by the individuals and institutions in the field of afforestation/wasteland development. Nominations for the IPVM Awards 2010 were assessed on the basis of criteria like replicability, innovation, setting up of grassroots organizations, soil and [...]

KUT: Post Harvest Thanksgiving Festival of Kuki-Chin-Mizo

5, Nov 2010

India is primarily an agricultural economy and this beautifully translates into several agricultural related festivals across the country. Most important among these festivities are the festivals of harvest which have different names in different languages and are celebrated in different forms. In Punjab, the harvest festival is popular known as ‘Baisakhi’ and is celebrated with [...]

Call for Mahatma Gandhi NREGA Implementation and Rural Development of Manipur

10, Oct 2010

Migration has always been a major issue leading to population imbalance and conflicts of all kinds across the country. The general trend of migration is usually from rural to urban, especially by farmers owing to the seasonal nature of agriculture in many regions. Sometimes, as has been more pronounced lately, farmers move to towns and [...]

A Fair of Cultures: The Hornbill Festival of Nagaland

9, Oct 2010

Named after the hornbill, a bird that shows up in the folklore of most of the state’s tribes, the seven-day festival is one giant colour-splashed hodgepodge of dances, performances, crafts, parades, games, sports, food fairs and religious ceremonies.


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