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), chicken, fish and eggs. To fulfill our food requirements, India produces 360 million tonnes of plant products and 88 million tonnes of animal products annually. With increase in population there has to be an increase in food resources. Also care must be taken to see that there is a goo..

Dams contribute enormously to deforestation and the loss of biological diversity. They can also result in potentially huge accidents during disasters like earthquakes. The embracing of centralized mega water management and regulation has also led to two more criticisms. The politicization and mi..

Water is a unique and remarkable compound, essential to all forms of life. Human beings and the flora and fauna cannot survive without water on this planet. A large amount of life on this planet is aquatic based i.e., can only survive in water. It is the most abundant substance after air in the ea..

Earth is an abundant source of material. Man has intensively studied the properties of these materials extensively and found new methods of using them. The air we breathe, the water we drink, stones and rocks, almost everything that is around us, are all useful to man for some purpose or the other...

They are spread over in most states. They can be acid soils (where pH is in the range of 3.5 to 6.5) found in coastal and hilly tracts or highly leached region or saline /alkali soils (where pH is 7.5 to 9.5) found in any clay rich poor drained soils especially with high sodium salts. Out of these..

Growth of Population - Population of a country should grow reasonably to match with growth in its gross domestic product to maintain the existing standard of living. Reducing growth or negative growth in population may be desirable if the standard of living should increase by more favourable per ca..

Consequences of Over Population/Impact of Population Growth - India is the best country to study the consequences of over population. Geometric growth in population has pushed our country into population explosion leading to number of serious consequences. Some of them are: Decreased availability o..

>Space-based remote sensing is a new technology. It has high potential for applications in nearly all aspects of resource management. India recognized the potential of this technology quite early. India conducted several remote sensing experiments in the late '60s and '70s using airborne ..