Editorial

Welcome to the latest issue of the CEiBa newsletter. Our year starts with many personal goals like new resolutions (from diet curbs to foreign tours), achievements, and future planning even starting afresh after severe depression. The sincerity and eagerness we show to improve ourselves are often mind-blowing but how these achievements make us really happy is a serious debate. . . . Read More

A tale of the bygone era: understanding colonial India through plant exploration

It was a time when a country was under political turmoil but substantially rich to lure foreign traders. It was also the time when Western resource-hungry nations were vying with each other to get a grip on the resource-rich South and Southeast Asia. And finally, it was when our quest for the natural world and its vivid diversity led us to conduct countless explorations, documenting resources, and penned down a good number of travel accounts. Let’s go through the stories of Botanical explorations in colonial India.. . . Read more

The quest of growing food around our homes

Introducing organic farming in a chemical farming environment is a big challenge for enthusiastic crusaders. One has to fight multiple issues like, seeds, soil quality, production, etc. Even, one has to consider farmers’ motivation too. Read the first-hand account of an entrepreneur in a small village in the eastern state of West Bengal, India. . . . Read More

Solid Waste: From Prodigality in Production to Prospects

Solid waste management is a popular buzzword in the urban environmental milieu. The growing pile of versatile throw-aways especially plastics, choked our living quite evidently. As expected, multiple strategies have been adopted to face this pressing issue in light of sustainable development goals (SDG). Still, newer challenges are also on the horizon to complicate the handling. Let’s educate and update ourselves about our uncomfortable omnipresent neighbour. . . . Read more

Flowers of war

It was a bloody war….now the field is abandoned….the swinging red poppies remind us about the lost lives and background tragedies. . . . Read more

Dew drops and sugarcane: a desi tale of cultivation

Water hungry sugarcane can be satisfied with the mere dew drops. Local knowledge makes it possible. . . . Read more

Cerana Bees – the Defender

Honey bees are smart. They use others excreta to block their giant attackers. What a strategy!!. . . . Read more

Trawlers are the lifeline for the fishermen. However, it is the trawler destructing the marine ecosystem by intensifying the bycatch extraction along with the mainstream fishery. Here are the details . . . . Read More