Agriculture: August 2004 Archives

By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent

Livestock needs a lot of water
World water supplies will not be enough for our descendants to enjoy the sort of diet the West eats now, experts say. The World Water Week in Stockholm will be told the growth in demand for meat and dairy products is unsustainable.

by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

The Contai Basin is the area between the Rasulpor and Suvarnareka Rivers where they are about to merge in the Bay of Bengal. The Bengali name of Contai is Ka'nthi derived from the Sanskrit word kanthika'. The British changed Ka'nthi to Contai because to them Ka'nthi sounded similar to Kandi in Murshidabad district and Kanthi in Midnapore district.