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Professor Emeritus ,Former Head of the Department of Botany, and Director Life Sciences, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. 302004, India At present freelance consultant with Bioenergia. Spain and... Read More »

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Once upon a time when Taj Mahal was built the west was passing through the age of renaissance This has brought in industrial revolution while agrarian societies did not advance much and remained as so called developing countries. Agricultural products their storage, processing and distribution largely suffers from losses of technical procedures. This results in compulsive selling by farmers and hoarding by the hoarders: the main business in developing world some 100 years ago and still continues. "Money makes the Mayor go" Trade is basically purchasing the crop produce in bulk at crop harvest time by a group of people who have money and selling it as higher price when shortage comes. Prices of Onion may fluctuate from Rs 8 to Rs 80.
If one utilizes from the mother earth more than required for his daily life from air , water, food, fiber, shelter, recreation, and destroys mother earth for its greed to have more and more for himself at the cost of poor and downtrodden, underprivileged, unarmed and helpless poor people one is indulging in corruption. Mother Nature produces enough for needs of human beings but not for the greed.
One can see its autumn season now and leaves are falling in tropical climate.  The  fallen leaves contain almost 40 percent carbon which has been absorbed from the atmosphere. Thus plants help remove the carbon from the atmosphere. However growing plants deplete soil of its nutrients. If the fallen leaves are buried in the soil 2 to 3 feet deep for next 3 to 6 months one can get best quality compost which will provide nutrients back to the soil on one hand and help in carbon sequestration . Simple techniques could help environment  in environment protection.
Scientists are buisy writing for magazines with impact factor and H factor value who cares for river Yamuna? This was news item that drains will stop flowing in Yamuna in Delhi area in next 4 years time. A promise of politicians. They are planning another barrage on Yamuna. If local problems assume global proportions there has to be special meetings at global level or UN level that help mitigate pollution of rivers as rivers are global as is the environment. Its need to have some kind of regulation system or advisory scientific bodies with powers to suggest and evaluate projects and their implementations before its too late.
While my late Professor Dr Neumann was showing me a museum on the outskirt of a German town , the instruments to fight each other were swords . He commented " The most significant progress makind has made is to develop instruments of mass destruction. Nuclear bombs present on the surface of the earth can destroy the entire earth several times. The peaceful use of nuclear energy has been proposed by several nations. However if the most advanced nation of the world find it difficult with all their knowledge, technology and will power to contain the nuclear disasters what will happen if such disaster will take place in not so technologically advanced country with limited resources and manpower and will to fight it out - the nuclear disaster.
When I was student at University of Rajasthan and lived in Gokhle hostel room number 6 in 1965 there was strong debate on nuclear reactors, nuclear energy, nuclear power, nuclear non proliferation treaty , horizontal and vertical spread of nuclear power and I still remember one Mr Kaushik who was doing Ph.D. (and lived in room number 8 ) took long time to explain pros and cons of nuclear power. Nuclear non proliferation horizontal and vertical .