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Launching Sparkle 2011, the Gems and Jewellery Festival which is the many part of Vibrant Gujarat 2011, the Chief Minister of state Narendra Modi called on Thursday for a world branding of Surat which has made its presence felt in the diamond polishing industry and the exhorted Gujaratis to acquire stake in many diamond mines around the world.
In a first of its kind initiative, the Gujarat Ecology Commission is reported to have formed the report ‘Economic Valuation of Coral Reef Systems in Gulf of Kutch’.
It is now released that coastal erosion that the corals protect the earth from is worth Rs799.31 million annually!
Form the aspect of ‘goods and services’ yielded from the corals like fisheries, tourism, protection against salinity ingress and coastal erosion and maintenance of bio diversity, the total annual value touches Rs2200.24 million.
Biotech agriculture giant Monsanto has, for the very first time admitted, that insects have developed resistance to its Bt cotton crop.
Field monitoring in parts of Gujarat has found that the Bt crop has failed to effectively control pink bollworm pest in four Gujarat districts — Amreli, Bhavnagar, Junagarh and Rajkot.
It has been reported that the net profit of the Gujarat Gas Company surged by almost 42.33 per cent and the profit increase was recorded at about Rs 46.23 crore for the final quarter in the year 2009, when compared to the profit in the previous year at the same time period.
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