🔆Dead Sea
✅The Dead Sea, also known as the Salt Sea, is a saline lake in southwestern Asia located between Jordan and Israel.
✅It lies to the east of the Mediterranean Sea and south of the Sea of Galilee.
✅ It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
✅Salinity: The Dead Sea is one of the Earth’s saltiest water bodies, almost ten times saltier than ordinary seawaters. It has a salinity of 34.2%.
✅The Dead Sea has one main inlet (the Jordan River) but does not have an outlet and so loses its water mainly through evaporation..
✅It has a density of 1.240 kg/L, which makes swimming in its waters similar to floating.
✅The Dead Sea, also known as the Salt Sea, is a saline lake in southwestern Asia located between Jordan and Israel.
✅It lies to the east of the Mediterranean Sea and south of the Sea of Galilee.
✅ It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley, and its main tributary is the Jordan River.
✅Salinity: The Dead Sea is one of the Earth’s saltiest water bodies, almost ten times saltier than ordinary seawaters. It has a salinity of 34.2%.
✅The Dead Sea has one main inlet (the Jordan River) but does not have an outlet and so loses its water mainly through evaporation..
✅It has a density of 1.240 kg/L, which makes swimming in its waters similar to floating.
🔆ORGANIC FARMING:
✅agricultural process that uses biological fertilizers and pest control acquired from animal or plant waste.
✅Organic farming avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, growth regulators and livestock feed additives.
✅The components of organic farming are:
i) Organic manures.
ii) Non- chemical weed control.
iii) Biological pest and disease management.
▪️ORGANIC FARMING IMPACT:
✅Improves water-holding capacity of soil.
✅ Improves soil texture, adds organic nitrogen, and stimulates beneficial bacterial and fungi.
✅support living organisms (earthworms, beneficial bacterial, and fungi, etc.)
✅ Helps to prevent erosion.
▪️Advantages:
✅ Environment-Friendly.
✅ Nutritional.
✅ Lower input cost of production.
✅ Use of local resources.
✅ Sustainable agriculture.
▪️Disadvantages:
✅ Initial yield is low.
✅ Lack of availability for Organic manures.
✅ Shorter shelf-life.
✅ Lack of awareness.
✅ Indian market is price sensitive and common Indian can’t afford pricier Organic food .
✅agricultural process that uses biological fertilizers and pest control acquired from animal or plant waste.
✅Organic farming avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, growth regulators and livestock feed additives.
✅The components of organic farming are:
i) Organic manures.
ii) Non- chemical weed control.
iii) Biological pest and disease management.
▪️ORGANIC FARMING IMPACT:
✅Improves water-holding capacity of soil.
✅ Improves soil texture, adds organic nitrogen, and stimulates beneficial bacterial and fungi.
✅support living organisms (earthworms, beneficial bacterial, and fungi, etc.)
✅ Helps to prevent erosion.
▪️Advantages:
✅ Environment-Friendly.
✅ Nutritional.
✅ Lower input cost of production.
✅ Use of local resources.
✅ Sustainable agriculture.
▪️Disadvantages:
✅ Initial yield is low.
✅ Lack of availability for Organic manures.
✅ Shorter shelf-life.
✅ Lack of awareness.
✅ Indian market is price sensitive and common Indian can’t afford pricier Organic food .
#India has expressed disappointment at the shift of focus from adequate #ClimateFinance enablement to emphasis only on mitigation, at the Plenary Session of #CoP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
7 Pillars to strengthen India - CARICOM relation.
*The seven pillars- form the acronym C-A-R-I-C-O-M: capacity building; agriculture and food security; renewable energy and climate change; innovation, technology and trade; cricket and culture; ocean economy; and medicine and healthcare*. #UPSC #Guyana #PMModiVisitToGuyana
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*The seven pillars- form the acronym C-A-R-I-C-O-M: capacity building; agriculture and food security; renewable energy and climate change; innovation, technology and trade; cricket and culture; ocean economy; and medicine and healthcare*. #UPSC #Guyana #PMModiVisitToGuyana
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🇪🇺 The EU's CBAM is reshaping global trade by linking it to carbon emissions. 🏭
💡Let's understand its purpose, how it works, and its implications for countries like India.
💡Let's understand its purpose, how it works, and its implications for countries like India.
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New tiger reserve for Chhattisgarh : Guru Ghasidas Tamore Pingla
Source: 📰 The Indian Express
New tiger reserve for Chhattisgarh : Guru Ghasidas Tamore Pingla
Source: 📰 The Indian Express
Genus Koima:
✅The generic name, Koima is derived from Malayalam and is the vernacular word used for loaches.
✅It encompasses two known species that were previously assigned under the genus Nemacheilus.
✅Features of genus Koima : It has a unique colour pattern comprising a yellowish-brown ground colour, single row of black spots on lateral line, all fins hyaline, and absence of a uniform banding pattern on dorsal side.
✅Habitat: Kunthi, Bhavani, Moyar, Kabini, and Pambar rivers in the Western Ghats
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✅The generic name, Koima is derived from Malayalam and is the vernacular word used for loaches.
✅It encompasses two known species that were previously assigned under the genus Nemacheilus.
✅Features of genus Koima : It has a unique colour pattern comprising a yellowish-brown ground colour, single row of black spots on lateral line, all fins hyaline, and absence of a uniform banding pattern on dorsal side.
✅Habitat: Kunthi, Bhavani, Moyar, Kabini, and Pambar rivers in the Western Ghats
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🔆Nano Urea:
✅It is a nanotechnology-based revolutionary agri-input that provides nitrogen to plants.
✅It is developed and patented by the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO).
✅IFFCO Nano Urea is the only nano fertilizer approved by the Government of India and included in the Fertilizer Control Order (FCO).
📍Features:
✅Compared to conventional urea prill, Nano Urea has a desirable particle size of about 20-50 nm, and more surface area (10,000 times over 1 mm urea prill), and number of particles (55,000 nitrogen particles over 1 mm urea prill).
✅It contains 4.0 % total nitrogen (w/v).
📍Benefits:
✅It is produced by an energy-efficient, environment-friendly production process with less carbon footprints.
✅It is more efficient in terms of nutrient uptake and releases nitrogen more slowly.
✅It reduces the amount of nitrogen lost to the atmosphere as greenhouse gases.
✅It is expected to improve crop productivity, soil health, and nutritional quality of produce and address the "imbalanced and excessive use" of conventional fertilizer.
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✅It is a nanotechnology-based revolutionary agri-input that provides nitrogen to plants.
✅It is developed and patented by the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO).
✅IFFCO Nano Urea is the only nano fertilizer approved by the Government of India and included in the Fertilizer Control Order (FCO).
📍Features:
✅Compared to conventional urea prill, Nano Urea has a desirable particle size of about 20-50 nm, and more surface area (10,000 times over 1 mm urea prill), and number of particles (55,000 nitrogen particles over 1 mm urea prill).
✅It contains 4.0 % total nitrogen (w/v).
📍Benefits:
✅It is produced by an energy-efficient, environment-friendly production process with less carbon footprints.
✅It is more efficient in terms of nutrient uptake and releases nitrogen more slowly.
✅It reduces the amount of nitrogen lost to the atmosphere as greenhouse gases.
✅It is expected to improve crop productivity, soil health, and nutritional quality of produce and address the "imbalanced and excessive use" of conventional fertilizer.
#gs3
#economy
#agriculture
#science_technology
#mains