Alcohol – A Cancer Causing Substance Alcohol is one of the most well established causes of cancer - Sara Williams, Cancer Research, UK What are the cancers causing substances? If this question were put before educated elite community, including doctors, their response...
10+ Interesting facts about agriculture in India you must know Myth 1: Accidental exposures to pesticide spray drift kill farmers. Fact: Pesticides are sprayed diluted with water. The water content would be as high as 99% in the pesticide spray when applied to the...
Needed – A Rethink on Assessing Agriculture’s Real Contribution to India’s Economy “True, the service and industry sectors are engines of economic growth, but the fuel that powers the engines comes from agriculture. That’s why the entire economy catches a cold...
Solid Facts About Water It is ironical, the richer we become, the more resources we consume, the longer we live, the more pessimistic we become about the future and start panicking in the present. The latest panic mongering is about vanishing water. “Future wars will...
Pesticides are Toxins; so are Medicines & Foods The word toxin (poison) is frequently understood to mean pesticides. A toxin i.e. poison can be natural or synthetic substance-either solid, liquid or gas- and need not necessarily be pesticide. Toxicology is a...
Give agriculture its due Like financial literacy, knowledge of agriculture too is a must for every Indian Recently, Raghuram Rajan, governor, Reserve Bank of India, had stressed the need for increasing ‘financial literacy’ among Indians and proposed its inclusion in...
