Environmental Concern in Nepalese Agriculture

Ukrainian Agriculture and Agri- Environmental Concern

This paper presents an overview of the development of macroeconomic conditions in Ukrainian agriculture from 1990 to the present, and highlights the main features of land privatization & farm reorganization that have strong impact on the environment. In this regard, the review describes the major agri-environmental issues drawn from national Ukrainian datasets accompanied by a discussion of the...

Invasive Species in Agriculture: a Rising Concern

Invasive species are not new phenomena in U.S. agriculture, as illustrated by these 1920s lyrics from the Boll Weevil folksong. The boll weevil entered the United States via Mexico in the 1890s, and by the 1920s, this pest had spread to all cotton producing states, wiping out tens of thousands of acres of cotton, costing billions of dollars, and literally driving thousands of farmers off the la...

Urbanization and Environmental Concern

Today, half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. By 2050, 70 percent of the population will be urban. India has been witnessing massive urbanization. Over the six decades since independence, India’s population grew three-fold from 350 million in 1947 to 1027 million in the year in 2001. During the same period, the urban population grew almost 4.6 fold as fast – from 62.4 million to 2...

Situation of Agriculture In Malaysia - A Cause For Concern

AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL bIOTECHNOLOGY

Survival of microorganisms in the Antarctic and Arctic conditions of life requires of the relevant genera and species special adaptability and resistance against stressors such as lack of substrate, UV-radiation, low temperatures for a long time and short-term intense heat during the Antarctic and Arctic summer. Therefore genetic adaptation of Antarctic and Arctic organisms to stress factors wo...