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FIVE BIG BIOTECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGHS

The past 20 years have seen revolutionary biotech innovations that have helped farmers improve their harvests, farm more sustainably and feed the world a more nutritious and safe diet. Here’s a glimpse of five important breakthroughs that have revolutionized agriculture: 1. DROUGHT TOLERANCE Drought is a huge threat to agricultural productivity always. With rising temperatures and limited and uncertain rainfall, many farmers can see their crops dry up. The problem is getting worse as climate change threatens to lengthen and intensify droughts. Fortunately, biotechnology can help farmers to survive. In 2013, farmers successfully planted the first ever biotech drought-tolerant maize in the corn-belt-a region of the Midwestern united states known for drought. Plant scientists are now working to make this technology available to farmers around the world. In Africa, where ever 300 million people rely on maize as a staple food, the water efficient maize for Africa public/private projec...

Rabindranath Tagore's idea of rural reconstruction

Rabindranath Tagore was not only a great poet rather he had got deep feeling for rural reconstruction in India. He always tried to make people happy not only economically rather by his songs Dave's and dharma also.                                              After successfully starting of Shatiniketan at Bolepur in West Bengal he thought about another separate Centre for rural all round development. It was Sriniketan. It visualized for self-supporting steps of rural people. Starting with neighboring villages, the institute has conducted it's activities in many villages. These villages are graped under sub-centers for the convenience of administration the area has been divided into two zones 1. Intensive area, 2. Extensive area. The first comprises 26 vil...

“Blood Mobile” – A Noble Mission on its way

Peter Marshall once said – “The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.” But does donation all the time refers to money? No, that’s where most of us go wrong many times. The answer to every question cannot be money always, but sometimes, it has to be something that literally can save another person’s life. And what can be a so important donation a person can make to save another person’s life? Yes, the correct answer to that question is ‘Blood Donation’. So, it is just when we got answer to that previous question, another one just pops into our head. The next one is that how can we properly sensitize people, make the channel of donation systematic and bring the entire procedure of storage and supply fully under a synchronized chain in a country where the most of the population, about 70% still lives in villages, along with tribal, who are even more remote to reach. Well, as a solution to that problem in Jharkhand, where mostly tribal population lives, comes there and...

NIOS–An effective means to reach the unreached, an experiment with Divyayan KVK

With a motto to “reach out and reach all”, NIOS follows the principle of freedom to learn i.e. what to learn, when to learn, how to learn, and when to appear in the examination is decided by the learner himself. There is no restriction of time, place, and pace of learning. The formal education, especially higher education is beyond the reach of rural children due to poverty and other factors like lack of infrastructure, unable to access the urban facilities etc. This is the reason that the life of 80% of rural India is underdeveloped. The only solution as envisaged by Swami Vivekananda is by spreading the education among masses. He said that suppose you open and free school in every village, still it would do no good, for the poverty in India is such that the poor children would rather go to help their father in the fields or otherwise try to make a living than come to school. Now, if the mountain does not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. If the poor boy or girl ...

Changing trends in English language teaching

The English language teachings in India has undergone significant changes during the last few decades. It is difficult to trace accurately the different phases of change in this short article. These changes form an interesting study not only for scholars but also for teachers and language experts. These changes are not only linguistic in nature but also relates to the socio-economic developments that have been taking place owing to technological and socio-economic developments. It is worth mentioning that during the post - independence days the thrust of English language teaching was mainly on the study of literature and grammar. The teaching of grammar formed an important aspect of teaching grammar was taught mostly on the basis of definition. The definition oriented declining was rigorous and thorough.                              ...