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Plant nutrients in the soil

Soil is a major source of nutrients needed by plants for growth. The three main nutrients are nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K). Together they make up the trio known as NPK. Other important nutrients are calcium, magnesium and sulfur. Plants also need small quantities of iron, manganese, zinc, copper, boron and molybdenum, known as trace elements because only traces are needed by the plant. The role these nutrients play in plant growth is complex, and this document provides only a brief outline. Major elements Nitrogen (N) Nitrogen is a key element in plant growth. It is found in all plant cells, in plant proteins and hormones, and in chlorophyll. Atmospheric nitrogen is a source of soil nitrogen. Some plants such as legumes fix atmospheric nitrogen in their roots; otherwise fertiliser factories use nitrogen from the air to make ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate and urea. When applied to soil, nitrogen is converted to mineral form, nitrate, so that plants can take it up. ...
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Gram Swaraj Abhiyan

The Gram Swaraj Abhiyan was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 14, the birth anniversary of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, to reach out to villages, most of which have a majority of Dalit and tribal homes.   The official objective of the outreach programme, which was launched a fortnight after nationwide protests against the dilution of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, was to “promote social harmony, spread awareness about pro-poor initiatives of government, reach out to poor households to enrol them in various welfare programmes.” Villages in Karnataka and West Bengal, where the election code of conduct is in effect, were left out of it.   The Saubhagya scheme to give every household an electricity connection reached 4 lakh homes, as against a target of 14.5 lakh homes, thus reaching 27% of the intended beneficiaries. Under the Ujjwala scheme to give gas connections to all homes, 39% or 5.6 lakh households were reached out of...
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Peasant movement during freedom struggle

Unlike the earlier peasant movements that arose from discontentment among the peasantry, the peasant movements in the twentieth century were influenced by national freedom struggle. This phase witnessed an increased involvement of middle-class, modern educated class in peasant resistance movements. This led to percolation of the idea of nationalism among the peasantry too. Gandhian Peasant Movements These movements were essentially non violent in nature. Satyagraha (fast unto death) was the defining feature of these moments to build moral pressure on britishers to accept their demands. Champaran Satyagraha 1917 : In Champaran, the peasants were agitating against the planters who were forcing the peasants to grow indigo under the exploitative tinkathia system . This system forced cultivation of indigo in 3/20th of land held by the peasant. One of their leaders, Raj Kumar Sukul invited Gandhi to resolve the issue. Gandhi led the movement by launching satyagraha and mobilised the peasan...
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आजादी

जिसे हम परिभाषित कर सकते हैं उसे हम नियंत्रित कर सकते हैं, शायद यही कारण है कि हम भावनाओं को परिभाषित नहीं कर सकते। यह लेख सभी स्वतंत्रता और इसके दायरे के बारे में है।   मैं स्वतंत्रता को परिभाषित करूंगा क्योंकि यह लेख आवश्यक बिंदु की ओर बढ़ता है। पूर्व-अपेक्षा: खुशी की लागत: खुशी कुछ स्थिर नहीं है, यह एक गतिशील अवधारणा है और इसका सीधा संबंध हमारे स्वतंत्र रूप से तैरने वाले दिमाग से है। दूसरे शब्दों में अगर कोई / कुछ आपकी खुशी के लिए ज़िम्मेदार है (सामाजिक / यौन / मनोवैज्ञानिक) लंबे समय तक नहीं होगा और जब तक कि कुछ वांछनीय या कम से कम कुछ सामाजिक रूप से स्वीकार्य मूल्य को यथास्थिति में नहीं जोड़ा जाता है। अब चूंकि यह परिवर्तन हमारे स्वतंत्र रूप से तैरने वाले मन के किनारे का पता लगाता है (और हमारा दिमाग हमारी आर्थिक / सामाजिक / मनोवैज्ञानिक पहुंच के चरम विस्तार तक फैलता है) इस परिवर्तन को निरंतर बनाए रखना मुश्किल या महंगा हो जाता है। मैं इसे खुशी की कीमत कहता हूं, कि हमें भुगतान करते रहना है।   Biasness: ज्ञान की कमी को पूर्वाग्रह कहा जाता है। यदि आप किसी विशेष धर्म, संबंध, सरक...
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Different perspective of Freedom-----market economy vs social stability

  What we can define we can control, perhaps this is the reason why we cant define emotion. This article is all about Freedom and its scope.   I will define freedom as this   article progresses towards required point. Pre-requisite: Cost of Happiness: happiness is not something static, it’s a dynamic concept and its directly linked to the edge of our freely floating mind . In other words if someone/something is responsible for your happiness(social/sexual/psychological) wont last long until and unless there is some desirable or at least some socially acknowledgeable value is added to the status quo. Now since this change traces the edge of our freely floating mind (and our mind tend to spread to the extreme extant of our economic/social/psychological reach) it becomes difficult or rather costly to continuously sustain this change. I call it cost of happiness   , that we have to keep paying .   Biasness: Lack of knowledge is called biasness. If ...
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Derailed Capitalism

The fundamentals of the game have to change as they currently favour wealthy investors and not workers and tiny enterprises India has an incomes crisis: incomes of people in the lower half of the pyramid are too low. The solutions economists propose are: free up markets, improve productivity, and apply technology. These fundamentals of economics must be re-examined when applied to human work. Three solutions Economists say markets should be freed up for agricultural products so that farmers can get higher prices; and freed up for labour to attract investments. Without adequate incomes, people cannot be a good market for businesses. In fact, it is the inadequate growth of incomes that has caused a slump in investments. Ironically, the purpose of freeing up markets for labour is to reduce the burden of wage costs on investors just when wages and the size of markets must be increased. Human rights must prevail over economic considerations. Good markets enable smooth transactions between b...
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Global Hunger Index 2020

Global Hunger Index 2020 - social issue Why india performed poorer then countries like Pakistan?   Key highlights: 1.        India Scores 27.2 (Serious zone) a.        0=no hunger b.       <9 = low severity c.        10 to 19.9 = moderate d.       20 to 34.9=34.9 serious e.       >35= Alarming 2.        Second last in south asia (even below pakistan) 3.        China + Brajil scored < 5 (low severity nation) 4.        South Africa =13.5 (moderate nation) 5.        India's poor rank bcoz of Wasting + Stunting ( highest in world) a.        Note:                ...
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