East Godavari

East Godavari - Early Hindu kingdoms. The history of East Godavari district like the rest of Andhra, may be traced to the period of the Nanda dynasty. Mahapadma Nanda, the founder of the dynasty, led expeditions and defeated several monarchs of a large portion of the Deccan. The subsequent history of the Nanda dynasty is not known, except that the last ruler, Dhana Nanda, was over ...

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Coastal Andhra is an unofficial region of India's Andhra Pradesh state. Coastal Andhra includes the northern coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh between the Eastern Ghats and the Bay of Bengal, from the northern border with Orissa to south of the delta of the Krishna River. It generally includes the districts of Guntur, Krishna, East Godavari, West Godavari, Visakhapatnam, Vizayanagaram, and Srikakulam, and often Prakasam and Nellore. Coastal Andhra's relative prosperity is the envy of political movements seeking to form separa

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West Godavari is a district in Andhra Pradesh in India. The headquarters is Eluru. Other important places in the district are Bhimavaram and Tadepalligudem. The district is located in delta region of the Krishna and Godavari rivers. Khammam District lies to the north, East Godavari District to the east, the Bay of Bengal to the south, and Krishna District to the west. Economy: The region is mostly fertile and the local economy is heavily dependent on agriculture. Furthe ...

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Andhra University, located in Visakhapatnam is one of the older premier universities in India with a broad focus. It was established in 1925 and shared affiliating responsibilities with the Madras University in the initial years. It was headed by Dr. Cattamanchi Ramalinga Reddy as the Vice-Chancellor from 1926 to 1931 and in a further second term from 1936 to 1949. It was headed by Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan in the interim period. The University contains two sections, the South Campus - housing the Arts, Humanities & Sciences departments along with the administrative block and the North Campus e ...

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Andhra Pradesh (ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ in Telugu) (Āndhra Prādesh), is a state in south-eastern India and is part of the linguistic-cultural region of South India. It lies between 12°41' and 22°N latitude and 77° and 84°40'E longitude, and is bounded by Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Orissa in the north, the Bay of Bengal in the east, Tamil Nadu to the south and Karnataka to the west. Andhra Pradesh is the fifth largest state in India and it forms the major link between the north and the south of India. It is the b ...

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When shrimp farming emerged in the 1970s as an economically viable alternative to satisfy growing market demands that had surpassed the capacity of the wild shrimp fishery, the subsistence farming methods of old were rapidly replaced by the more intensive practices of an export-oriented business. Industrial shrimp farming at first followed these traditional methods with so-called extensive shrimp farms, but compensated for the low yield per area with increased pond sizes: instead of ponds of just a few hectares, ponds of sizes up to 100  ...

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Sanskrit writings from the 7th century BC describe the Andhra people as Aryans from the north who migrated south of the Vindhya Range and mixed with Dravidians. They are mentioned again at the time of the death of the great Mauryan King Ashoka, in 232 BC. This date has been held to be the beginning of the Andhra historical record. The Andhras are first mentioned in the Aitareya Brahamana. They first rose to prominence under the Satavahana Dynasty. Various dynasties have ruled the area, including the Andhra (or Satavahana), Ikshvakas, Badami ...

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Its original name is Raja Mahendri or Raja Mahendravaram. It was the first capital of any known Telugu Kingdom. The Chalukya ruler Rajaraja Narendra ruled this city around 1022. The city has traces of 11th century fine palaces, and fort walls. However, new archeological evidence suggests that the city may have existed far before the Chalukyas. In the Middle Ages, it was called Raja Mahendra Varam. Later the name underwent various changes to Rajahmahendravaram, Rajahmahendramu, Rajamandramu and Rajahmundhri. It later ...

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Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on India - Andaman and Nicobar. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands comprise 572 islands (all land masses in both low and high tides) out of which 38 are inhabited, both by people from the mainland and indigenous tribes. The islands lie just north of the earthquake epicentre, and the tsunami reached a height of 15 m in the southern Nicobar Islands. The official death toll is 812, and about 7,000 are still missing. Th ...

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Sanskrit writings from the 7th century BC describe the Andhra people as Aryans from the north who migrated south of the Vindhya Range and mixed with Dravidians. They are mentioned again at the time of the death of the great Mauryan King Ashoka, in 232 BC. This date has been held to be the beginning of the Andhra historical record. The Andhras are first mentioned in the Aitareya Brahamana. They first rose to prominence under the Satavahana Dynasty. Various dynasties have ruled the area, including the Andhra (or Satavahana), Ikshvakas, Eastern Chalukyas, Kakatiyas, Vijayanagar, the Qutb Shah ...

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Machlipatnam derived its name owing to the construction of a gateway to the town decorated with eyes of a fish (also called machili). Machilipatnam was founded in the 14th century by the trading Arabs who found their way from the red sea to southern India to the spot of eastern peninsula. Machilipatnam was a flourishing seaport on the east coast during the time of the Satavahanas and in the 17th century AD, it was a centre of French, British, and Dutch trade. It is one of the earliest known British settlements in the subcontine ...

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Lat: 16°42'N - 16°46'N; Lon: 82°11'E - 82°19'E. Temperatures in Yanam range from 27°C to 45°C in summer and 17°C to 28°C in winter. In the hot season humidity rates vary between 68% and 80%. The district lies in the delta of Godavari River, the town is situated where the river meets its tributary Koringa River, 9 kilometers from the Bay of Bengal coast. ...

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Andhra Pradesh - Language. Telugu (తెలుగు) is the state's official language. Telugu is the second most widely spoken language in India after the national language, Hindi. It is known for its mellifluous nature and has also been called Italian of the East. An Urdu-speaking and predominantly Muslim minority lives mostly in Hyderabad. Among the many tribal languages, Banjara, Koyi, and Gondi have the greatest number of speakers. ...

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Andhra Pradesh - Recent Economic Progress. In the last decade, the state has emerged at the forefront of India's progress in fields like Information Technology, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Business Management, and Construction, and has emerged as a land of immense business opportunities. In spite of some liberalization since 1990, Andhra's economy still faces many challeges, especial ...

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Shrimp farming has been done for centuries in Asia, using traditional low-density methods. Indonesian brackish water ponds called tambaks can be traced back as far as the 15th century. Shrimps were farmed on a small scale in ponds, in monocultures or together with other species such as milkfish, or in rotation with rice, using the rice paddies for shrimp cultures during the dry season, when no rice could be grown.[Rön01] Such ...

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Shrimp farms of all types, from extensive to super-intensive, can cause severe ecological problems wherever they are located. For extensive farms, huge areas of mangroves were cleared, reducing biodiversity. During the 1980s and 1990s, about 35% of the world's mangrove forests have vanished. Shrimp farming was a major cause of this, accounting for over a third of it according to one study;[VBY01] other studies report between 5% and ...

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Shrimp farming in many cases has far-reaching effects on the local coastal population. Especially in the boom years of the 1980s and 1990s, when the business was largely unregulated in many countries, the very fast expansion of the industry caused significant changes that sometimes were detrimental to the local population. Conflicts can be traced back to two root causes: competition for common resources such as land and water, ...

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In 1723 Yanam was the third French colony established in India. The colony was abandoned in 1727 because of lack of commercial interest. In 1742 it was re-occupied, and the Mughal emperor issued a decree (firman}, confirming the concessions granted by Salabathjung, the local leader. In 1750 Musaffar Yung, Nizam of Hyderabad, accepted the French claims. The town is close to the village of Neelapalli which was under English control. This led to conflicts between the two na ...

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Yanam India, Yanam India - Geography and climate, Yanam India - Population centres, Yanam India - History, Yanam India - External link

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The total global production of farmed shrimp reached more than 1.6 million tonnes in 2003, representing a farm-gate value of nearly 9,000 million U.S. dollars.[FIGIS] This accounts for 25% of the total shrimp production that year (farming and wild catches combined).[Jos04, p.9] The largest market for shrimp is the United ...

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There are a variety of lethal viral diseases that affect shrimps.[BRMES01] In the densely populated, monocultural farms such virus infections spread rapidly and may wipe out whole shrimp populations. A major transfer vector of many of these viruses is the water itself; and thus any virus outbreak also carries the danger o ...

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