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Dear All

Wishing you and your family A Very Happy New Year

May this New Year bring JOY , PROSPERITY and GOOD HEALTH.

Best Regards,

Dr.A.K.Pandey
Head
NWFP Division
Tropical Forest Research Institute
P.O. RFRC, Mandla Road
Jabalpur 482 021 INDIA
Ph. 91-761-2840751(O) 2840745(R)
FAX- 91-761-2840484
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>From: "Dr R K Pandey" <pandeyrk1@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: IPRNG@yahoogroups.co.in
>To: IPRNG@yahoogroups.co.in
>Subject: [IPRNG] Re: Seasons greetings from Gautam
>Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:16:00 -0000
>
>--- In IPRNG@yahoogroups.co.in, "Chitra Shanker" <chitrashanker@...>
>wrote:
> >
> > Dear IPRNG group members,
> > WISHING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
> > CHITRA SHANKER
> > DRR, Rajendra Nagar,
> > Hyderabad
>Thanks for new years greetings and same for u
>Dr R K Pandey
> >
>
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Dear IPRNG group members,

 WISHING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR

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Hyderabad

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Professor in Dermatology, 10
publications on Parthenium. Associated with
Tamilnadu Agri. University
Founder member and past President of the Contact Dermatitis Forum of
India (CODFI)
------------
Welcome Dr. Srinivas.

regards
Pankaj Oudhia

Dear All

Wishing you and your family  A Very  Happy New Year


May this New Year bring JOY , PROSPERITY and GOOD  HEALTH.

Best Regards,

Dr.A.K.Pandey
Head
NWFP Division
Tropical Forest Research Institute
P.O. RFRC, Mandla Road
Jabalpur 482 021 INDIA
Ph. 91-761-2840751(O) 2840745(R)
FAX- 91-761-2840484
E mail. akpandey10@...
             pandeyak64@...



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>Reply-To: IPRNG@...
>To: IPRNG@...
>Subject: [IPRNG] Re: Seasons greetings from Gautam
>Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:16:00 -0000
>
>--- In IPRNG@..., "Chitra Shanker" <chitrashanker@...>
>wrote:
> >
> > Dear IPRNG group members,
> >  WISHING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
> > CHITRA SHANKER
> > DRR, Rajendra Nagar,
> > Hyderabad
>Thanks for new years greetings and same for u
>Dr R K Pandey
> >
>
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wrote:
>
> Dear IPRNG group members,
>  WISHING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
> CHITRA SHANKER
> DRR, Rajendra Nagar,
> Hyderabad
Thanks for new years greetings and same for u
Dr R K Pandey
>

Thanks Dr. Gautam.

Wish you all Merry Christmas and happy and prosperous new year-2007.

regards
Pankaj Oudhia


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Dear Group Members,
     This article is having little information about Parthenium but
much information about medicinal and aromatic crops. Please forward it
to interested researchers.
Answers of your queries related to Indian medicinal and aromatic crops.
http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=earticleView&earticleId=1671&page=-2

regards
Pankaj Oudhia

Dear Group Members,
Please go through this query and guide her.

regards
Pankaj Oudhia

------ Original Message ------
Received: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:09:09 AM MST
From: "pooja kapoor" <p0oja1901@gmail.com>
To: "pankaj.oudhia@usa.net" <pankaj.oudhia@usa.net>
Subject: Parthenium Paper?

Dear Mr.Pankaj,
Hope you are well! My name is Pooja Kaoor and I live in Masinagudi
located
within the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary. Over the past few years I
have been
observing the rapid spread of this weedc through these forests. I am
not a
scientist nor am I an enviromentalist...I am just a concerned
citizen and I
see a huge problem before us. The forest department has no clue as
to how to
deal with this menace.
I have been thinking about getting the local tribals to collect
parthenium
and making paper out of it. Is this a feasible option?

I do hope you can give me an answer to this querry.
Thanks and Regards

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      Please visit this link and view misleading information given in
this advertisement.

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regards
Pankaj Oudhia

Dear Dr. Goyal,
     Sorry for delay in reply. For one day workshop at your place I
feel that we must do it under guidance of Dr.Mahadevappa sir. Please
write to him with proposal. We all try to work on it.

regards
Pankaj Oudhia

Dear Group Members,
Please go through this query and guide her.

regards
Pankaj Oudhia

------ Original Message ------
Received: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:09:09 AM MST
From: "pooja kapoor" <p0oja1901@gmail.com>
To: "pankaj.oudhia@usa.net" <pankaj.oudhia@usa.net>
Subject: Parthenium Paper?

Dear Mr.Pankaj,
Hope you are well! My name is Pooja Kaoor and I live in Masinagudi
located
within the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary. Over the past few years I
have been
observing the rapid spread of this weedc through these forests. I am
not a
scientist nor am I an enviromentalist...I am just a concerned
citizen and I
see a huge problem before us. The forest department has no clue as
to how to
deal with this menace.
I have been thinking about getting the local tribals to collect
parthenium
and making paper out of it. Is this a feasible option?

I do hope you can give me an answer to this querry.
Thanks and Regards

Dear Group Members,
     Please go through this query and guide her.

regards
Pankaj Oudhia


------ Original Message ------
Received: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 07:09:09 AM MST
From: "pooja kapoor" <p0oja1901@...>
To: "pankaj.oudhia@..." <pankaj.oudhia@...>
Subject: Parthenium Paper?

Dear Mr.Pankaj,
Hope you are well! My name is Pooja Kaoor and I live in Masinagudi
located
within the Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary. Over the past few years I
have been
observing the rapid spread of this weedc through these forests. I am
not a
scientist nor am I an enviromentalist...I am just a concerned
citizen and I
see a huge problem before us. The forest department has no clue as
to how to
deal with this menace.
I have been thinking about getting the local tribals to collect
parthenium
and making paper out of it. Is this a feasible option?

I do hope you can give me an answer to this querry.
Thanks and Regards

'I am not able to describe well the deterioration in traffic
congestion which has befallen the city. I started my career in
Bangalore in 1982, and in those days it was a pristine, green city
with hardly any vehicular traffice. I used to whiz around in my Bajaj
Chetak Scooter, and most of the vehicles on the road were two-
wheelers. The air was pure, and though the parthenium plants were
growing in certain outskirts of the city, it did not have much impact
on the people. People with Asthma used to have some trouble,'
http://vijaysrinivasan.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/bangalore-experience/

BMP’s cleanliness drive proceeding at snail’s pace
They are unaware of the situation. The growth of parthenium (plant
which causes severe respiratory problems) along with mounting garbage,
is a nuisance,’’ said Reena G K, a resident of HRBR Layout.
http://bangalorebuzz.blogspot.com/2006/11/bmps-cleanliness-drive-
proceeding-at.html



Pankaj Oudhia

Pankaj Ji

Any time please arrange one day seminar at NOIDA for the group members and locals on Weeds specially Parthenium havoc.

Dr Ashwani Kumar Goyal

Reader and Head Department of Botany

Govt. P.G.College, Sector 39, NOIDA-201 301 INDIA

0120-2413333

91-120-2500938(IGNOU)

Cell-09868862160

---

From: "Pankaj Oudhia" <pankajoudhia@gmail.com>
Reply-To: IPRNG@yahoogroups.co.in
To: IPRNG@yahoogroups.co.in
Subject: [IPRNG] FW: [pestnet] Experience on Invasive Alien Species
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:15:46 -0000

From Pestnet yahoo group
Dea Colleague,

I would like to have experience on prevention and management of
Invasive Alien Species from abroad; therefore, kindly please provide
me your experience on IAS in your country(included legislation,
structure and operation).

Thank you very much for your so kind assistance and co-operation.
Sincerely yours,


Duong Minh Tu, Ph.D.
Entomologist
Director
Plant Quarantine Diagnostic Centre (PQDC)
Plant Protection Department (PPD)
Ministry of Agriculture and rural Development (MARD)
149 Ho Dac Di - Dong Da - Hanoi - Vietnam
Tel. No.: (0084) 4 8513746
Fax. No.: (0084) 4 8513746 or 8574719
Mobile: 0904 101090
Email: thanhtam1992@yahoo.com or duongminhtu@hn.vnn.vn
=========================
Please share your experience regarding Parthenium in India with Dr.
Duong.

regards
Pankaj Oudhia

---

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From Pestnet yahoo group
Dea Colleague,

I would like to have experience on prevention and management of
Invasive Alien Species from abroad; therefore, kindly please provide
me your experience on IAS in your country(included legislation,
structure and operation).

Thank you very much for your so kind assistance and co-operation.
Sincerely yours,




Duong Minh Tu, Ph.D.
Entomologist
Director
Plant Quarantine Diagnostic Centre (PQDC)
Plant Protection Department (PPD)
Ministry of Agriculture and rural Development (MARD)
149 Ho Dac Di - Dong Da - Hanoi - Vietnam
Tel. No.: (0084) 4 8513746
Fax. No.: (0084) 4 8513746 or 8574719
Mobile: 0904 101090
Email: thanhtam1992@... or duongminhtu@...
=========================
Please share your experience regarding Parthenium in India with Dr.
Duong.

regards
Pankaj Oudhia

Dear Group Members,
        Shri Sanjay Joshi of Dewas has joined our group. Welcome
Sanjay. I have posted your message. If you wish to send more messages
send it at IPRNG@... so that it can reach to all group
members.

Pankaj Oudhia

Increase in Parthenium infestation in ten years (1996-2006) in sixteen
districts of Indian state Chhattisgarh.
http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=interactiveTableView&itableId=2329


regards
Pankaj Oudhia

Dear Group Members,
     Please guide this school teacher interested in preparing project
on Parthenium for his students.

regards
Pankaj
------ Original Message ------
Received: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:53:29 AM MST
From: sanjay joshi <san_joshi_san@...>
To: pankaj.oudhia@...
Subject: abut parthenium

Respected sir,
            I read your reasurch about parthenium. It have more
knowldgeble imformetion. I begain a project work " Remove
parethenium with passetive attitute". Can you help me? My project is
base on wormy composting by parthenium. Can we acsept the amount of
nutrent by this type of compost.Like amount of NPK etc.
   Sanjay Joshi
   Guaid teacher
   School for excellence,Dewas
   mp.455001
====================

REQUEST FOR SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON /PARTHENIUM/ /HYSTEROPHORUS/ FOR SOUTH AFRICA

/Parthenium hysterophorus /is invading the eastern parts of southern Africa at an alarming rate. There are already large infestations in Mozambique and Swaziland. The effect of these recent invasions are not yet fully realized and we first need a disaster before the authorities and politicians will react.

GISP (Global Invasive Species Programme) has recently sponsored a small desktop project aimed at evaluating the potential impact of Parthenium in southern Africa. This study has to be completed by the end of January 2007 and will fully rely on existing published and unpublished information from countries that have been fighting the weed for many years, being of course mainly India and Australia. In many ways, the Parthenium problem in southern Africa corresponds more to the Indian situation.

We have already scanned most of the more than 1000 references on Parthenium and very useful information came to light that can be fed into the bioeconomic models that we intend to use to predict the consequences of Parthenium invasion in southern Africa.

Unfortunately there is still important information missing. Firstly, it was not possible to obtain important reprints of articles published in obscure journals or in conference proceedings and, secondly, there is little quantitative data available on the economic impacts of Parthenium on health, biodiversity, yield losses and grazing capacity.

I would appreciate it if you could provide me with information or identify a publication/report/contact person that could give me more information on the following subjects regarding Parthenium:"

1) some quantitative data on the effect/cost on human health, e.g. what is the estimated percentage of people in say Bangalore (or any other region) suffering from dermatitis (AECD) or from allergic rhinitis or bronchitis caused by Parthenium, and approximately how many days will affected people stay away from work? What is the average cost of medical treatment of affected people?

2) There is a total lack of any quantitative data on the impact of

Parthenium invasions on biodiversity e.g. species loss or negative impacts on ecological processes. .

3) What is the approximate loss/reduction expressed as a percentage of domestic herbivores caused by Parthenium invasion of natural pastures? There is some information on the effect of Parthenium on cattle and buffalos but it does not give an idea what this is costing the country/district/state. There is some useful information available from Australia.

4) The cost of control: There is much anecdotal information on the

impact of Parthenium on various crop yields but not much of it is quantitative data, or the data is given in Rs of 20 years ago which is difficult to extrapolate to South African conditions. What I need is for example man-hours needed to clear 1 ha of various densities of Parthenium weed in crops/roadsides/open spaces etc. It would also help if it can be stated that a certain crop needs for example two additional treatements of a certain herbicide to provide effective control. There are also not many publications that give crop losses related to Parthenium densities. The excellent paper of Tamado et al 2002 in the J. of Pest management is an excellent example of what is needed.

5) There is much information on the potential uses of Parthenium e.g. as biopesticides, biogas,green manure etc. Is it possible to obtain information on any viable businesses that have developed from these benefits or are there farmers that utilize these beneficial properties on a large scale?

I realize that it will not be easy to provide answers to all these questions but any information, including unpublished information but coming from a reliable source, will be most welcome.

I received some useful information from Australia (Queensland)

but again, this applies almost exclusively to large commercial farmers In South Africa we also have a large component of subsistence (small-scale) farmers and the Indian situation could also be applicable to these farmers.

This study is meant to alert politicians of the looming threat and that

actions need to be put in place NOW and not in 10 years time. Africa as

a whole is extremely vulnerable and the Indian experience will be of

much value to us.

I will be most grateful for any information.

Kind regards

Helmuth Zimmermann

helmuthzim@netactive.co.za

www.hza.co.za <http://www.hza.co.za/>

P/a Plant Protection Research Institute

Weeds Research

Private Bag X134

Queenswood, Pretoria

0121

Fax +27 12 329 3278

REQUEST FOR SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON /PARTHENIUM/ /HYSTEROPHORUS/ FOR SOUTH AFRICA

/Parthenium hysterophorus /is invading the eastern parts of southern Africa at an alarming rate. There are already large infestations in Mozambique and Swaziland. The effect of these recent invasions are not yet fully realized and we first need a disaster before the authorities and politicians will react.

GISP (Global Invasive Species Programme) has recently sponsored a small desktop project aimed at evaluating the potential impact of Parthenium in southern Africa. This study has to be completed by the end of January 2007 and will fully rely on existing published and unpublished information from countries that have been fighting the weed for many years, being of course mainly India and Australia. In many ways, the Parthenium problem in southern Africa corresponds more to the Indian situation.

We have already scanned most of the more than 1000 references on Parthenium and very useful information came to light that can be fed into the bioeconomic models that we intend to use to predict the consequences of Parthenium invasion in southern Africa.

Unfortunately there is still important information missing. Firstly, it was not possible to obtain important reprints of articles published in obscure journals or in conference proceedings and, secondly, there is little quantitative data available on the economic impacts of Parthenium on health, biodiversity, yield losses and grazing capacity.

I would appreciate it if you could provide me with information or identify a publication/report/contact person that could give me more information on the following subjects regarding Parthenium:"

1) some quantitative data on the effect/cost on human health, e.g. what is the estimated percentage of people in say Bangalore (or any other region) suffering from dermatitis (AECD) or from allergic rhinitis or bronchitis caused by Parthenium, and approximately how many days will affected people stay away from work? What is the average cost of medical treatment of affected people?

2) There is a total lack of any quantitative data on the impact of

Parthenium invasions on biodiversity e.g. species loss or negative impacts on ecological processes. .

3) What is the approximate loss/reduction expressed as a percentage of domestic herbivores caused by Parthenium invasion of natural pastures? There is some information on the effect of Parthenium on cattle and buffalos but it does not give an idea what this is costing the country/district/state. There is some useful information available from Australia.

4) The cost of control: There is much anecdotal information on the

impact of Parthenium on various crop yields but not much of it is quantitative data, or the data is given in Rs of 20 years ago which is difficult to extrapolate to South African conditions. What I need is for example man-hours needed to clear 1 ha of various densities of Parthenium weed in crops/roadsides/open spaces etc. It would also help if it can be stated that a certain crop needs for example two additional treatements of a certain herbicide to provide effective control. There are also not many publications that give crop losses related to Parthenium densities. The excellent paper of Tamado et al 2002 in the J. of Pest management is an excellent example of what is needed.

5) There is much information on the potential uses of Parthenium e.g. as biopesticides, biogas,green manure etc. Is it possible to obtain information on any viable businesses that have developed from these benefits or are there farmers that utilize these beneficial properties on a large scale?

I realize that it will not be easy to provide answers to all these questions but any information, including unpublished information but coming from a reliable source, will be most welcome.

I received some useful information from Australia (Queensland)

but again, this applies almost exclusively to large commercial farmers In South Africa we also have a large component of subsistence (small-scale) farmers and the Indian situation could also be applicable to these farmers.

This study is meant to alert politicians of the looming threat and that

actions need to be put in place NOW and not in 10 years time. Africa as

a whole is extremely vulnerable and the Indian experience will be of

much value to us.

I will be most grateful for any information.

Kind regards

Helmuth Zimmermann

helmuthzim@netactive.co.za

www.hza.co.za <http://www.hza.co.za/>

P/a Plant Protection Research Institute

Weeds Research

Private Bag X134

Queenswood, Pretoria

0121

Fax +27 12 329 3278