[PDF] Top 20 Economic Valuation of a Wetland in West Bengal, India

... the wetland got a fresh ...the wetland bed itself is used for cultivation of boro paddy and ...The wetland water is also used for irrigation and jute retting and farmers collect fodder from ...the ... See full document

... Wetland is very important source of natural resources, upon which the rural economy depends. Wetlands provide many substantial benefits not only to local society, but also to the people, who live far away from ... See full document

... Kolkata Wetland , West Bengal , India ..., West Bengal , India The East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW) is situated at 880 20’ E - 880 35’ E and200 25’ N -200 35’ ... See full document

... Larger households have smaller per-capita income; again, they have enough numbers of family members to earn from different activities, instead of depending on forest only. So, the variable family size has a negative sign ... See full document

... Cereal based sub-systems existed across all the regions of the state, highest share being in the Lateritic Red Soil zone with 83.92% contribution to gross farm income. The share in Coastal saline zone was 66.37%. These ... See full document

... The economic efficiency is increased in the combination system because fish have a high ...in India and practiced mainly by the members of a number of backwards communities, who are largely illiterate, ... See full document

... Pekapeka Swamp (see Figure 1), located 12 km south-west of Hastings, is a site of national and regional interest in New Zealand because of its ecosystem and unique Maori cultural and social significance ( Hawke’s ... See full document

... Edible crabs mainly Scylla serrata and Neptunus pelagiens. A large number of Sundarbans populations are engaged in fisheries and allied activities. Fisheries remain to be the sole livelihood of fisherman and their family ... See full document

... Phulia and Shantipur are today home to weavers from different economic strata. On the one hand you have the affluent, market savvy weavers who have many looms and a number of weavers working under them. However, ... See full document

... Poverty is an important supply side factor in explaining child labour. At the macro level study Edmonds (2005) examines the relationship between the per capita expenditure and child labour in Vietnam between the year ... See full document

... Handicrafts are the art of creating decorative products using raw indigenous materials. Bankura has a rich cultural heritage of handloom industry and handicraft. It is world famous for terracotta temples, ell. The Conch ... See full document

... Fish diversity is low in the discharge points (site- 2 and site- 3) rather than fresh point (site 1). The reduced fish diversity eventually decreases the fish production of native species and creates extinction of ... See full document

... In the present study an attempt has been made to study the economic analysis of tomato cultivation in Kandi block, Murshidabad district, West Bengal. For this 60 tomato growers selected from the ... See full document

... A cursory look at the listing of indicators reveals that there has been significant increase in the various components of economic infrastructural facilities. Highest increase, during 1980-81 to 2000-01, has been ... See full document

... of India, inspite of it being a hazardous profession. In West Bengal, there are more than 19 lakh beedi workers and out of them nearly 15 lakh were issued identity card ...In India, estimated ... See full document

... a wetland which estimate values for valuing changes in the provision of nonmarketable goods and ...the economic value of a specified change in the provision of the environmental good of interest, which ... See full document

... of economic policies by ruling East India Company led to a large scale forest clearance (accompanied with the carnage of wild animals) targeting the extension of agricultural land made a havoc ecological ... See full document

... Although the Santhals have their own distinctive and independent language, they did not have their own script to express their thoughts and feelings in written form. Till the nineteenth century Santhali remained an oral ... See full document

... The financial assistance received from the Ministry of Environment and Forest, Govt. of India through RRA, School of Fundamental Research is thankfully acknowledged. The author also thanks to the Project Director, ... See full document

... We aimed to evaluate the extractability of different extractants for zinc (Zn) and copper (Cu) in soils of long-term field experiments covering different agro-ecological zones of India. The relationships between ... See full document