Dr S Thiagrajan, who began the research nearly two decades ago, says he was guided by Ayurvedic and other Indian medicine systems.
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Jain Irrigation, an Indian maker of irrigation systems, uses dance and song to explain the benefits of drip irrigation to farmers who can't read.
Following the devastating tsunami of 26 December 2004 in the Indian Ocean, the IOC Member States requested that similar warning systems be developed for the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and adjacent regions as well as the northeast Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas.
Sanny Jegillos, program coordinator for the UNDP's regional center in Bangkok, rates the Indian Ocean early tsunami warning systems as superior to those of the Pacific in terms of earthquake monitoring and detection.
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Similar systems already exist for the Pacific and Indian oceans and for the Caribbean.
Ranbaxy, an Indian drug firm, has developed controlled-release systems that allow patients to take only one pill a day instead of several small doses.
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Similar systems are in operation in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Caribbean.
The other systems have been set up in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and in the Caribbean.
That success has reflected the ability of India's companies to develop cheap software using Indian designers at home, where wages are far lower than in the U.S. But that makes it necessary, the industry says, to bring the Indian designers and experts "on site" to the U.S. where they are putting the systems into place.
Changing the fortunes of poor Indian farmers like Khodpe has been a lifelong mission for Bhavarlal Hiralal Jain, founder-chairman of Jain Irrigation Systems, the leading supplier of this technique in India.
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