RC recommendation on 27 pesticides
<p>This report is on the review of 66 pesticides under the Chairmanship of Dr. Anupam Varma. The main parameters emphasized by the Committee to review the products were uses approved under the Insecticides
Ministry Of Agriculture
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Cabinet clears food security ordinance
Preparing for the 2014 General Elections, the Congress-led UPA today decided to take the ordinance route to provide India’s two-third population the right to food at subsidised rates. Opposition parties,
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UPA govt takes ordinance route to food security
Cabinet unanimously approves scheme's rollout for 67% of population The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, in a year that will see six states going to polls, has chosen the ordinance route to launch its ambitious food security programme for almost two-thirds of the country’s population.
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Govt plans special session for food Bill
The government on Thursday deferred the decision on bringing in an ordinance on the food security Bill and, instead, chose to engage the Opposition once more to drum up support to get the Bill passed in
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UPA all set to push for ordinance on Food Bill today
Ignoring concerns expressed by allies and civil society groups, the United Progressive Alliance government is all set to push for an ordinance on the Food Security Bill. The revised Bill along with Food Ministry’s 81 amendments will be tabled for approval in the Union Cabinet meeting on Thursday. Food Minister K.V. Thomas and key ally and NCP chief Sharad Pawar are known to have expressed concern over taking the ordinance route. Some of the allies have also let it be known that the proposal for an ordinance was moved during the previous Cabinet meeting without prior consultation.
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Govt plans to convene special Parliament session to pass Food Bill
The UPA Government plans to call a special session of Parliament to pass the Food Security Bill after the Cabinet on Thursday deferred a proposal to pass an ordinance for implementing the same. The
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Govt to push food bill as ordinance
After vacillating for days, the Congress leadership has decided to push the food security bill through as an ordinance. On Tuesday, the ordinance got listed for Thursday’s Cabinet meeting, taking even
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State told to put up Rs 60k-cr plans for water storage
The Union agriculture ministry has asked the state government to submit a proposal to create more water storages infrastructure by investing Rs 60,000 crore over within the next three years. Such planning
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Food Bill: Ordinance or special session unlikely
With substantial opposition to short cuts in passage, regular Parliament discussion in coming session seems the route The government was neither likely to promulgate an ordinance nor convene a special
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Food Security Mission Adds to Granary, Says Pawar
The implementation of the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) has resulted in an increase in food grain production by 42 million tonne as against the target of 20 million tonne set for the Eleventh Plan. Agriculture and Food Processing Industries minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday informed members of parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to his ministry that various interventions under NFSM have resulted in the distribution of almost 75 lakh of farm equipment, nearly 175 lakh quintals of highyielding seeds of rice, wheat and pulses, and knowledge transfer through more than 49,000 farmer field schools and 8 lakh field demonstrations.
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Kerala dominates National Plant Genome Saviour Awards
Kerala has dominated the National Plant Genome Saviour Awards for the second successive year by grabbing the community award as well as the newly-introduced individual awards. While the Plant Genome saviour Community Award for 2012 was bagged by Palakkad Rice Farming Community, Ciby Kallingal of Pattikkad, Thrissur, and N Vasavan of Pachapoika in Kannur, have won the individual awards for plant genome conservation.