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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Panel on farm marketing prepares report
The Committee of Ministers in charge of Agriculture Marketing has prepared its first report containing several policy recommendations for Agricultural Marketing Reforms.
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Food, Farm Ministries Clash Over Wheat Exports
Pawar may have a point as grain stocks stand at 44mt and wheat prices stay below . 1,170/q MSP Sharp differences between the key ministries over wheat exports came out in the open with food minister K V Thomas ruling out the decision firmly on the contention that it could boost prices at home at a time of high food inflation. "We are against wheat exports.
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Ban first, studies later: Ratnakaran
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran wrote to Union Minister of Agriculture Sharad Pawar on Wednesday urging him to initiate urgent action to ban the manufacture and use of Endosulfan and its formulations under different trade names in the country and also to move the Stockholm Convention for a consensus to ban it world-wide. He spoke to The Hindu on his demand.
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Ban Endosulfan: Veerendrakumar
KASARAGOD: Terming
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Sharad Pawar bats for wheat, rice exports
Minister says the country has huge grain stocks and global prices are favourable India should allow exports of wheat and rice as the country has huge grain stocks and global prices are favourable, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said on Wednesday. Pawar's remarks came a day after India forecast normal monsoon rains which could boost farm output and encourage exports, though concerns over per
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Kerala govt steps up relief for endosulfan victims
On Monday, when the four-day Stockholm convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants begins in Geneva, Kerala would observe Anti-endosulfan Day with government-sponsored programmes across the state.
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Endosulfan: Sudheeran lashes out at Pawar
ALAPPUZHA: Senior Congress leader V.M.
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India expects to reap record harvest
India is estimated to harvest an all-time record output of 235.88 million tonne (MT) of foodgrains in the 2010-11 crop year (ending June), courtesy the highest-ever production of wheat and pulses. Addressing the Kharif Conference here, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said the third advance estimate figures available with him showed an all-time record production of foodgrains of 235.88 MT.
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All-time high foodgrains output anticipated for 2010-11
The country has achieved an all-time high production of foodgrains, estimated at 235.88 million tonnes in 2010-11, said Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday. This came on the strength of a record output of wheat and pulses. The highest output of foodgrains, so far, has been the 234.47 million tonnes produced in 2008-09. Speaking at the National Conference on Kharif Strategies, Mr.