1978 - Volume 20, Issue 3 | by A K. Kaul
Agriculture is the major factor of the Bangladesh economy, with farm products accounting for about 55 percent of the nation's gross domestic product. To keep pace with the nearly 3 percent annual growth of its population, agricultural productivity in Bangladesh must be
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 3 | by Hans Broeshart
Only two percent of the territory of Peru consists of arable land. Sixteen million people depend on the production of about three million hectares of land, which means that on the average only 1800 square metres is available per person. It is clear that Peru is one of the
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 3 | by Author not available
A one-month course on plant breeding for disease resistance including the use of induced mutation techniques was held at the end of 1977 at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) in New Delhi. The training course was organized jointly by the IAEA and FAO, and was
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 3 | by Takken, W.; Weiss, M. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria). Joint FAO/IAEA Div. of Atomic Energy in Food and Agriculture)
The tsetse fly is the major vector of trypanosomiasis in Africa. At various places in Africa, tsetse control and eradication studies are under way, mostly relying on insecticides. However, two sterile insect programmes are in an executionary phase as field research projects. A
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 3 | by John E. Vercoe
In many regions of the world, animal production is limited by poor growth, reproductive performance and milk output of livestock, thus limiting the availability of animal products such as meat, milk, leather, etc., for use by man. Reduced animal production results from
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 3 | by Peter Schultze-Kraft
For many years the International Atomic Energy Agency has been giving technical assistance to developing countries on the application of radioisotopes in medicine, agriculture and hydrology. With increasing industrialization, these countries feel a growing need for the use of
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 3 | by Mukherjee, R.N. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria). Div. of Life Sciences)
Chemical pollutants from conventional energy and industrial sources released to the environment presumably pose a hazard to man's health and environmental resources. Insufficient knowledge of their detailed mechanisms of interaction with the biological systems seems to provide
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 3 | by Morawiecki, W. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria))
A brief description is given of the part the IAEA's programme plays in promoting the physical protection of nuclear material and facilities. A list of IAEA projects, aspects of national and international concerns, the formulation of guidelines for State's policies, the
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 3 | by Zangger, C. (Eidgenoessisches Amt fuer Energiewirtschaft, Bern (Switzerland))
It is an indisputable fact that a rift has occurred within the Swiss population and also abroad with regard to the expediency of the peaceful use of nuclear energy. This phenomenon fits into a broad background of growing distrust on the part of the public in face of the gradual
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