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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After SC rap, more foodgrain for poor at BPL rates
Responding to the Supreme Court order on rotting foodgrain, the government on Thursday decided to release an additional 2.5 million tonnes of foodgrain to the states for distribution among the poor. The additional release of foodgrain, however, will be only for the next six months.
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Give grain to poor... thats an order: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court slammed the government on Tuesday, expressing anguish at its casual attitude to reports of millions of tonnes of foodgrain rotting in the open when millions are going hungry. Rejecting agriculture minister Sharad Pawar
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We'll respect court decision on free grain for poor: Pawar
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Union government will respect the Supreme Court's decision on free distribution of grain to the poor, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
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It was an order, not suggestion: court
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it clear that its August 12 directive to distribute grain at
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Maharashtra ethanol makers to keep 50% alcohol for petrol blending
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai August 31, 2010, 0:20 IST Demand that the deposit fee sought by OMCs be cut to 1% from 10%. Ethanol manufacturers in Maharahstra, in a serious bid to supply ethanol for five per cent blending with petrol, have decided to reserve half their alcohol stock exclusively for this.
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Uniform criteria for declaring drought soon
New Delhi: The government is developing a uniform set of scientific criteria for declaring drought in any part of the country to overcome the problems arising out of divergent parameters used by different states.<br />
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State must act against fertiliser hoarders: Sharad Pawar
<br />Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Sunday indicated that chief minister Ashok Chavan should crack the whip on those hoarding fertilisers to create an artificial shortage. Pawar said,
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Implementing SC's order on free grain not possible: Pawar
The government today said it was not possible to implement the Supreme Court order which asked the Centre to distribute foodgrain for free to the poor instead of allowing it to rot due to lack of storage facility. Sharad Pawar
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Sharad Pawar not in tune with Supreme Court, says free grains not feasible
Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Thursday made it clear that free distribution of food grains among the poor, as suggested by the Supreme Court (SC) is
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Sugar lobby wins ethanol round I
IT WAS a big win, at least for now, for the powerful Maharashtra sugar lobby when the three ministers from the state on the ethanol GoM clinched the contentious price of Rs 27/litre for ethanol at the CCEA on Monday. Under intense lobbying from ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh, Murli Deora and Sharad Pawar, the price of ethanol, although only an interim one at present, was pegged at the CCEA at