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World Water Day focuses on Europe's groundwater
Groundwater supplies the majority of Europe's drinking water as well as a substantial percentage of agricultural water. A European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing, released today on World Water Day, presents a European overview of this critical resource, which is under rising strain due to ...
Reaping material resource from rice analysis
I keep in mind my granny, a single farmer, sowing "arate," a newly-introduced rice selection that was the utter her village. It had been the late Sixties or early Nineteen Seventies. IR8 was a semi-dwarf, and high-yielding selection, that the International Rice analysis Institute (IRRI)...