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सेंद्रिय शेतीची यशोगाथा

पुस्तक परिचय सेंद्रिय शेतीची यशोगाथा एका एकराची अभिनव  ‘ज्ञानेश्वरी’ लेखिका: डॉ. चित्रलेखा पुरंदरे -- विश्वकर्मा पब्लिकेशन्सने प्रसिद्ध केले हे पुस्तक फक्त सेंद्रिय शेती करणाऱ्या किंवा करू  इच्छिणाऱ्या  वाचकांसाठी उपयुक्त असे नाही. तर या क्षेत्रामध्ये सुद्धा किती नव नव्या चांगल्या, प्रेरणादायी  गोष्ठी -घडामोडी घडत असतात त्याचे दर्शन घडविणारे सर्वसाधारण वाचकांसाठी उपयुक्त आहे असे असे हे पुस्तक आहे.  एका अतिशय गरीब कुटुंबात जन्मलेल्या ज्ञानेश्वर बोडके या मुलाने स्वतःच्या हिमतीवर आणि ताकतीवर एवढे यश मिळवले याची ही कहाणी आहे. पुण्यानजीक हिंजवडी या माहिती तंत्रज्ञानाच्या क्षेत्रातील नव्या भव्य औद्योगिक केंद्राशेजारी चमत्कार करून दाखविला आहे. बोडकेवाडी या छोट्या खेड्यात त्यांनी आपल्या स्वतःच्या फक्त एक एकर शेतीवर कष्ट करत करत फक्त स्वतःचीच आणि कुटुंबाचीच  प्रगती केली असे नाही, तर महाराष्ट्रातील शेतीमध्ये मोठे नवीन दिशा दाखवणारे काम केले आहे. केवळ एक एकर शेतीमध्ये रोज किमान एक ते दोन हजार रुपये आपण मिळू शकतो हे त्यांनी दाखवून दिले आहे. राज्यातील नव्या दमाच्या शेत...

A trap to control pests affecting plants and humans

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Pune- A young farmer in Maharashtra has invented a novel trap to end the menace of hazardous pests and insects that adversely affects plants and humans. His invention has controlled pests and insects such as bollworms, moths and other worms that devastate agricultural crops. T he farmer, Mr Kantilal Bhomraj Patil, of Mangrul village, Chopda tehsil of North Maharashtra, has been granted patent 201821002187, Journal no. 05/2019, publication 01-02-2019).  K antilal Bhomraj Patil’s “EcoPest Trap’ eliminates these hazards as the invention involves the use of coloured pest trap to attract a wide variety of insects. infesting commercial crops, greenhouses, home gardens, orchards, flower and vegetable gardens and agricultural farmlands. Priced at Rs 200 (two hundred only), his apparatus utilizes a sticky substance applied to the surface of the pest trap.  The number of traps required is four to 20 per acre of farm.  F armers and farm scientists the world over have long been strug...

New forms of journalism: Robot, AI, Automation

Newspaper and news agency journalists are upset as they received the BBC news that the Microsoft has planned to replace dozens of its contract journalists on its MSN website and use automated systems to select news stories ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52860247?intlink_from_url=&link_location=live-reporting-story , dated May 30, 2020) . This has hit the English language journalists hard. It is because the story has appeared on the backdrop of the reports that publishers in the USA and Europe have been sacking journalists due to the plummeting advertising revenue since the beginning of the 21 st century. The situation was slightly better for journalists in India until recently. It is changing fast with the onset of Corona 19 since March 2020. A month later, some newspaper managements have shrunk their bureaus. Suddenly the publishers have shut down loss-making units. Some have retrenched their journalists and non-journalist staff because of the recession. The react...