Agriculture

Some useful agriculture-related site

• http://www.ipirti.com Indian Plywood Industries Research & Trg Inst
• http://www.iijira.org Indian Jute Industries Research Assn
• http://www.iiss.nic.in Indian Institute of Soil Sciences
• http://www.iisr.org Indian Institute of Spices Research
• http://www.iifm.org Indian Institute of Forest Management
• http://www.icar.org.in Indian Council of Agri Research
• http://www.cssri.nic.in CentralSoil Salinity Research Inst
• http://www.iari.res.in Indian Agricultural Research Inst
• http://www.icar.naarm.ernet.in Natl Acad of Agri Res Mgt
• http://www.cpcri.nic.in Central Plantation crops Res Inst
• http://www.cimap.org  Central Inst of Medicinal & Arom Plants
• http://www.cicr.nic.in  Central Inst for Cotton Research
• http://www.ciae.nic.in  Central Inst of Agri Engineering
• http://www.agricasa.org  Centre for Advancement of Sustainable Agri
• http://www.cazri.raj.nic.in Central Arid Zone Res Inst

Content

I Wikipedia
Omi Azad (omi@ekushey.org) drew attention to the Wikipedia (a fascinating volunteer-compiled encyclopeadia) in Bangla. He says: “There aren’t many articles yet, so it needs new contributors because whoever was working on it before is no longer working on it. All the text there, is released under the GNU Free Documentation license; you can edit any page, without even registering (although it is recommended).” See http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/.

Several examples of Wikipedias in different stages of development:

• http://ml.wikipedia.org/ - first stages of development; Malayalam language
• http://kw.wikipedia.org/ - getting off the ground; Cornish language
• http://hi.wikipedia.org/ - getting bigger; Hindi language
• http://en.wikipedia.org/ - almost 360000 articles; English language

Others have argued that the existance of a Wikipedia in a language is a huge boost to the amount of information in that language accessible on the Internet, and for some languages Wikipedia is their first encyclopedic resource ‘ever’.

II Online social science journal
Padma Prakash (nrprakash@vsnl.com) writes in to inform about the launch of ‘ojournal’. This yahoo group was started to facilitate the launching of an online multidisciplinary social science journal.

III Greenstar Resources CD
Jay Scholten (jpschtx@grande com.net) of Greenstar says his network builds solar-powered community centers for small villages. They have conducted programmes in a number of villages, including the West Bank, Ghana, Jamaica, India, Tibet and Brazil. As part of each Greenstar installation, they provide a set of Greenstar Resources CD-ROMs, many of them localised to current language and cultures, so that people can learn about international development issues, ideas, tools and examples.

The final programme will provide hundreds of documents and over 300 Mbytes of useful information, covering technology, health, energy, environment, education, culture, business and economics topics, along with a directory of development organisations around the world.

Please contact Greenstar Research Director Clyde Musgrave ( clyde@greenstar.org) if your organisation is willing to participate in the Greenstar Resources programme. http://www.greenstar.org

IV Mailing lists:
Linking up alternative voices to build greater awareness over issues that matter. Membership is free, this is a volunteer-driven initiative. Mailing-lists related to literacy, health, community-radio, education, environmental journalism, science writing, corruption issues, wildlife, and other subjects. Some active, others not. http://www. indialists.org/, http://wikiwikiweb.de/IndiaLists

Some interesting South Asian mailing lists

• ZESTCurrent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zestcurrent
• ZESTCaste: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zestcaste
• ZESTEconomics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zest-economics/
• ZESTPoets: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zestpoets
• ZESTAlternative: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/zestalternative
• TalkZEST: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/talkzest

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