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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Pawar seeks PM's intervention to finalise ethanol price
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention to decide the final price of ethanol for blending in petrol to ensure smooth supply of the product during the 2011-12 season. In August last year, the government had fixed an interim price of Rs 27 a litre for ethanol under the Ethanol Blending Programme (EBP) for mandatory blending of 5% ethanol with petr
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50 lakh tonnes of grain to be offloaded in domestic market
Reeling under the pressure of huge foodgrain stocks, well above the storage capacity across the country, the government on Thursday decided to send 50 lakh tonnes of grains to the states at much below the minimum support price (MSP), leaving a window open for export at a later date.
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India to West: Want Food Security? Give Us Tech
India will leverage the global concerns over food security to seek technological assistance from the developed world to raise farm productivity in the developing countries at the ongoing meeting of agriculture ministers of G-20 nations in Paris. The G20 meet in Paris will focus on various hedges against price instability in food articles and will also consider the use of emergency buffer stocks
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Heavy monsoon rains in eastern India to boost sowing of rice
New Delhi With heavy rains lashing eastern parts of the country during last few days, the paddy sowing activities are expected to get a boost during next few weeks, a top agricultural scientist said. Heavy rainfall in West Bengal, Assam and Orissa has resulted in key paddy growing regions starting their sowing operations. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the eastern an
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Centre seeks States' views on Food Security Bill
Gearing for the challenge of implementing the proposed Food Security Bill, Union Minister of State for Food and Public Distribution K.V. Thomas has decided to hold a conference of Chief Ministers to seek their views and cooperation. Mr. Thomas toldThe Hindu that he had made a presentation of the proposed Bill to Defence Minister A.K.
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Hail pounds apple belt again
Fresh stocks of Himachal apples are set to hit the markets next month, but they may spoil the taste of many buyers as more than half of the fruit crops, including cherries, peaches and green almonds, have already been damaged by unfavourable weather conditions. The worst disappointment to apple growers has come from unprecedented spells of hail storms, which took a heavy toll on the crop, wipin
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Watershed project lagging behind
PIRAVOM: The National Watershed Development Project for Rainfed Areas (NWDPRA), a multi-crore project for the conservation of soil and development of agriculture, is dragging in the state. Only 15 percent of the Rs 50 crore allotted by the Central Agricultural Ministry has been spent till date. The amount was allotted for the XI Five Year Plan that ends in March 2012.
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Govt wary of NAC food Bill draft
During a meeting between Union Food Minister K V Thomas and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday, apprehensions were reportedly expressed regarding the National Advisory Council (NAC) coming out with its own version of the food security Bill.
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Credit to farmers exceeds target
In a continuation of the last few years
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Decision on GM seeds may be delayed
With the postponement of a crucial meeting of the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) which was to deliberate on field trials of genetically modified seeds, the decision on their commercial release may be delayed further, possibly until the next kharif season. The proposed 110th meeting of GEAC, scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed for July 6.