Developing and maintaining a secure and equitable water future underpins prosperity and peace for all. The relationship also works in the opposite direction, as poverty and inequality, social tensions,
Jacques Chirac, French president , left Brussels summit of European Union leaders a happy man. In striking a pre-summit agreement with Germany's Gerhard Schroder on the future financing of the Common
Food security for all can hardly be guaranteed by the proverbial 'Gola Bhora Machh' at the state level. If it were that simple, the grain mountains and milk fountains of Europe and the United States
Growers in Prakistan blamed shortage of water, eruption of crop diseases and apathy of the irrigation department for drastic reduction in Jacobabad district's rice harvest. A major portion of the
Australia's largest live cattle exporter is trailblazing new ground by shipping cattle from the drought-stricken outback to graze beneath plantation palm oil trees in Malaysia. The company,
North Indian rice traders are encouraging farmers in and around Medchal in the Ranga Reddy district to sow the Yamini 130 superfine rice variety. Their intention is to use it as an adulterant in
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing, a wise man had once said, and fortunately for the country's farmers, the Centre is taking that advice. After a long bout of freak
The Food and Civil Supplies Ministry is working on a scheme where an additional one crore of the poorest families would be provided food at nominal prices. The scheme, Cabinet note for which is
With March 31, this year, as the deadline for New Delhi to chalk out its modalities for negotiations with the World Trade Organisation, the newly-constituted Group of Ministers on WTO, would have to
The country's present problem is not food scarcity, but food surplus. Tackling the problem calls for major reforms in the system of agricultural markets, public distribution system and the
The Indira Gandhi Canal in Rajasthan, aimed to green the Thar Desert, is turning counter-productive with agriculture land becoming saline and the prevalent water-logging resulting in the area
