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10th Anniversary of Soil Health Card Scheme

For Prelims: Soil Health Card (SHC) Scheme, Rabi, Kharif, Organic Carbon (OC), Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY), Green Revolution, Krishi Vigyan...

20 Feb 2025 Land Resources

World Soil Day 2024

Source: TH  World Soil Day is held annually on 5th December focussing on healthy soil and advocating for the sustainable management of soil...

09 Dec 2024 Land Resources

Global Soil Conference 2024 and Soil in India

For Prelims: Soil Health Card Scheme, Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana, Zero Budget Natural Farming,  Sustainable Development Goal 15,...

23 Nov 2024 Land Resources

Punjab's Strategic Push Against Stubble Burning

Source: TOI Punjab is intensifying efforts to address stubble burning by deploying subsidised crop residue management (CRM) machines and...

11 Sep 2024 Land Resources

Critical Threats Facing the Aravallis

For Prelims: Aravali Green Wall Project, Land Degradation and Desertification in India, Conserving Forests for a Sustainable Future, Mountain...

21 Aug 2024 Land Resources

Direct Seeding of Rice

For Prelims: Direct Seeded Rice (DSR), Water stress, Groundwater For Mains: Benefits and issues of Direct Seeded Rice method of rice...

19 Jun 2024 Land Resources

Global Impact of Land Squeeze

For Prelims: International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), National Land Records Modernization Programme (NLRMP), National...

23 May 2024 Land Resources

Illegal Sand Mining

For Prelims: Sand mining, Mines and Mineral Development and Regulation Act, 1957, Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act,...

26 Dec 2023 Land Resources

World Soil Day 2023

For Prelims: World Soil Day, Improving Soil Health, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations, International Union of Soil Sciences...

08 Dec 2023 Land Resources

Collection of Farm Fire Data in India

For Prelims: Consortium for Research on Agroecosystem Monitoring and Modeling from Space, Suomi NPP satellite, Moderate Resolution Imaging...

28 Nov 2023 Land Resources

Bio-Decomposer to Address Stubble Burning

For Prelims: Bio-Decomposer to Address Stubble Burning, Stubble Burning, Air Pollution, Southwest Monsoon, Indian Council of Agricultural Research...

17 Oct 2023 Land Resources

Land Use in India

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03 Oct 2023 Land Resources

Study on Joshimath Sinking

For Prelims: Himalayas, Earthquakes, Landslides, Joshimath, Land Subsidence, ISRO For Mains: Impact of Natural and Anthropogenic Factors on...

27 Sep 2023 Land Resources

Marine Sand Extraction

For Prelims: Sustainable Sand Mining Management Guidelines 2016, Marine Sand Watch For Mains: Environmental and socio-economic impacts of marine...

07 Sep 2023 Land Resources

Dotted Lands

For Prelims: Dotted lands, SVAMITVA, PARIVESH, Bhumi Samvaad For Mains: Issues related to land ownership disputes and the concept of dotted lands,...

23 May 2023 Land Resources

Bhoodan-Gramdan Movement

For Prelims: Vinoba Bhave, Mahatma Gandhi, Freedom Struggle, Philosophy of non-violence, Self-governance. For Mains: Bhoodan-Gramdan Movement and...

22 Apr 2023 Land Resources

Towards Effective Soil Management

This editorial is based on “Poor soil management will erode food security” which was published in The Hindu on 05/12/2022. It talks...

07 Dec 2022 Land Resources

Global Status of Black Soils: FAO

For Prelims: FAO, World Soil Day, SOC, Initiatives to improve Soil Health. For mains: Global Status of Black Soils, Significance of Balck...

07 Dec 2022 Land Resources

Stubble Burning

For Prelims: Stubble Burning, Turbo Happy Seeder (THS) machine, CAQM, Air Pollution. For Mains: Impacts on Stubble Burning. Why in...

06 Dec 2022 Land Resources

Stubble Burning

For Prelims: Bio-Decomposer, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Stubble Burning, Turbo Happy Seeder (THS) machine. For Mains: Impacts...

21 Sep 2022 Land Resources