Agriculture received its fair share in the Modi government's first full budget with one of the main proposals targeting the creation of a national agricultural market to boost farm productivity and farmers' income. India's 2015 Budget and Agriculture The Modi government announced its first full budget on 28 February 2015. It included an estimated gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 7.4 percent in 2014/15, which was helped by greater economic stability, higher employment generation, domestic manufacturing and consumption as well as fiscal prudence. Economic growth is expected to reach 8.1-8.5 percent in 2015/16 and double digits by 2018. The budget was more focused on the future than the average citizen at this time. Budgetary allo...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae. This waterbird is found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.[2] The species is not truly migratory but it sometimes travels large distances to find food and water, especiall...
From WPI Consulting
Like all marmots
An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.