Bhubaneswar: The neglect meted out to the soil for decades has returned to haunt mankind across the world, speakers said at a programme to mark ‘World Soil Day’ here recently, while calling for urgent measures to promote soil health. The programme, organised at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IAS), SOA’s faculty of agricultural sciences, focused…
Bhubaneswar: A programme to create awareness about the harmful effects of Parthenium hysterophorus, a noxious weed which invades farmlands causing huge loss to crop yield, was organised by the Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IAS), faculty of agricultural sciences of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA), on Saturday. The programme was jointly organised by IAS, the NSS wing…
Bhubaneswar: Students of Institute of Agricultural Sciences (IAS), SOA’s faculty of agricultural sciences, have started developing trichocards in the laboratory, which would immensely benefit farmers save their crops from harmful pests without using pesticide. Trichogramma, primary parasitoids grown in the lab, are used to destroy the eggs of pests which are a cause of huge…
