S Rajendran

Author Directory | S Rajendran

He is Professor and Head, Department of Economics, The Gandhigram Rural Institute

India Agriculture Weeds Irrigation Trade Maharashtra Watershed Development Plastics Health Effects NGO

Agriculture

COVID-19: Spice growers of Tamil Nadu, Kerala face looming crisis

With roads leading to plantations shut, spice cultivation has been badly hit

Agriculture

How COVID-19 has jammed South India’s jackfruit economy

With no harvest, contractors, farmers, transporters and labourers are suffering huge losses

Swamped in weeds

A flood-tolerant and drought-resistant weed spreads along the Cauvery delta, badly affecting agricultural production

Sweet residues

SUGARCANE AGRO-INDUSTRIAL ALTERNATIVES Edited by G B Singh and S Solomon . Oxford and IBH Publishing House, New Delhi . Unpriced

Talking green

BIOTECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE - A DIALOGUE -Edited by M S Swaminathan . Macmillian . Madras . 1992 Price: Rs 320

Plant prospects

The stubborn juliflora, which grows mostly in drylands and wastelands, is now invading arable areas. One still speculates about the repercussions

Market rights

TRADE IN AGRICULTURE:THE URUGUAY ROUND AND AFTER Edited by B Bhattacharyya and A K Sengupta Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Rs 400

Looking to the past

Farming for the future: An introduction to low-external-input and sustainable agriculture Coen Reijnties, Bertus Haverkort & Ann waters …

Coming to grips with survival

Moulded plastic handles enable the farmers of the Tahirpur leprosy colony in Delhi to harvest high yields

The fruits of water

Orchards in Vansda transform distant dream into reality as people unite to store and use the water that would usually run off

Farming by extension

RURAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES -- AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; VOL 1, BASIC CONCEPTS AND METHODS; VOL 2, EXAMPLES AND BACKGROUND MATERIAL Publisher: Wiley …

The spirit of water

Mahadapur goes green the 'group irrigation management' way

Hoarding the rain

Check dams have marked a watershed in the chronically parched village of Hivare in Maharashtra

Exploiting earthworms for fertilisers

Vermicampost - worm excreta - is emerging as a feasible substitute for chemical fertilisers

Waking up to old ways

Organic farming has found favour with agriculture officials and scientists.

Villagers unite to conserve resources

The Academy of Development Sciences has brought tribals in the Konkan region of Maharashtra together to make efficient use of scarce resources.

Tubelights give more than light to labs

Used tubelights can now be recycled into laboratory apparatus that are cheap and as good as those available in the market.

Removing toxins makes kesari dal safe food

A new, non-toxic variety of kesari dal is being field-tested in different parts of the country by IARI scientists.

Drainage plan helps reclaim land

Scientists have evolved a subsurface drainage system that makes saline soils arable within three years

Subabul biscuits boost milk yield

Cattle fed with subabul biscuits can produce up to 20 per cent more milk. The fast-growing tree also produces useful timber.

Quandary over eradicating useful lantana weed

Forest officials are confronted with the spread of a weed that stifles tree growth but is useful for making baskets.

What rural folk need is motivation

V B SALUNKE, a 58-year-old social worker, abandoned his engineering firm in 1972 to mobilise villagers towards community participation in the …

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