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The great Bengal famine is the most catastrophic event which took place during the British colonial period in present West Bengal in India in 1943. The famine devastated the lives of million people and also shattered the socio-economic status of Bengali society. The Rangpur, Dinajpur and Jalpaiguri districts of Bengal were the most suffered regions due to the famine and peoples mostly suffered from hunger, epidemics and  mal-nutrition. The great famine nearly killed  3 million peoples and the cause of the famine was merely not due to drought or natural event but colonial biopolitics as per research and studies. Pic: Relief committee at Kolkata during 1943 and investigation behind the cause of great famine The genesis of great Bengal famine had many divergent opinions from economists, scholars and leaders. According to economist B.M. Bhatia in his book “Famines in India: A Study in Some Aspects of the Economic History of India, 1860-1965" categorized the Bengal famine as a...

Bt Brinjal: An indispensable tool for Brinjal farmers in India (Selected Articles of National Web Conference: Vegetable Farmers Forum 2020) India is the second largest producer of vegetables in the world, but the average annual loss of vegetables is about 12 per cent which results in significant reduction in Indian agricultural economy (Manunayaka  et al ., 2020). The major issues in vegetable production are  lower market price, high input price, high cost of management for pest and disease, lack of high yielding variety seedling, lack of proper cold storage structures and losses due to natural calamity (Azad  et al ., 2014).  Brinjal ( Solanum melongena  Linn ) is the fourth important vegetable grown by small and marginal farmers in India. Farmers encounter several problems during brinjal production and the major one is fruit and shoot borer (FSB -  Leucinodes orbonalis  Guenee ), which results in 60 – 70 % of yield loss. Several pesticides gave optim...

Boll Weevil  Monument Of Alabama Insects are most fascinating part of nature. Apart from the beneficial part of the insects such as pollination, honey production by honey bee and maintaining the ecological balance in both terrestrial and aquatic eco-system, insects also act as pest of crops, domestic animals and human beings. We might have heard about the establishment of the monument for famous personality or divine objects, but a monument was erected in remembrance of destructive agricultural pest in Alabama, a constituent state of the United States of America. Boll weevil ( Anthonomus grandis ) is a most destructive pest of cotton, infesting and destroying the cotton crop all over the world. In the early 19th century, cotton was the major commercial crop grown especially for its lint in the states of America. The boll weevil entered America from Mexico in 1892. Cotton cultivation and marketing of lint was considered to be the major source of income and economic growth in America...