CEOs need to accelerate their action plans to safeguard the production of commodities critical to the global population and economy as heat stress and drought risk rise around the world, according to PwC's report, Climate Risks to Nine Key Commodities: Protecting People and Prosperity, published. The report, which analysed nine …
While basmati export has already plunged to low of 0.6 million tons from 2.1 million ton in 2013, the recent floods have ruined the 50 per cent of the Basmati growing area in the country. “The recent floods have once again ruined standing crops on more than 5 lac acres …
In pursuance of the Centre’s initiative to ensure food for all, Arunachal Pradesh on Tuesday launched the National Food Security Ordinance (NFSO) 2013 commemorating the birth anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi. As per the provisions of the Ordinance, a person belonging to priority households would be entitled to receive 5 kg …
The UPA’s much touted Food Security Scheme aimed at ensuring that “no Indian goes to bed hungry” was simultaneously rolled out in four Congress-ruled states in North India today. Congress president Sonia Gandhi rolled out the scheme in New Delhi, while Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda launched a customised …
Coinciding with the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki today launched the National Food Security Ordinance-2013 – by distributing highly subsidised rice and priority ration cards to 11 beneficiaries picked from the capital region as well as Papum Pare district. “A country …
Delhi will become the first to launch the food security programme on Tuesday to coincide with the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. The scheme intends to benefit at least 5.1 lakh families or 32 lakh people in Delhi in the first phase. The scheme will eventually cover …
Two days before the parliamentary debate, food minister KV Thomas on Sunday ruled out a demand from various political parties to universalise the public distribution system (PDS) against 67% coverage envisaged in the National Food Security Bill, 2013. “After long deliberations in the parliamentary standing committee, we have decided to …
Slogan-shouting TDP members disrupt Lok Sabha; Opposition leader Sushma Swaraj asks them to stage protest outside House The Lok Sabha on Tuesday made an attempt to discuss the ambitious National Food Security Bill but the debate was disrupted by Telugu Desam Party (TDP) members who shouted slogans in the well. …
With the key rice-growing areas in the country receiving erratic rainfall in the last two decades, scientists have been working on techniques to minimise the adverse impact on foodgrain production. Trilochan Mohapatra, director, Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), a premier institute under the ministry of agriculture, talks to FE's Sandip …
Farmers in the Philippines has vandalised a field trial of golden rice, a genetically modified rice fortified with vitamin A, under International Rice Research Institute. ‘The golden rice field site that was vandalised was located within the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit 5’s Bicol Experiment Station in Pili, Camarines …
Farmers body CIFA today opposed the recommendations of the Supreme Court-appointed committee to ban field trials of biotech crops saying such a move would be "anti-national" and against the interest of growers. The five-member technical expert committee appointed by the Supreme Court has recommended banning research field trials of all …
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) published Tuesday new guidelines on reducing emission of agricultural greenhouse gas to help tackle causes of global warming. Agriculture is directly responsible for over 10 per cent of all human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, said the new FAO guidance published form the …
Rice lines incorporating NUE technology showed double-digit increase in key plant performance and yield measures Maharashtra-based seed company Mahyco Seeds today said it has bought technology from US-based agricultural technology company Arcadia Biosciences to develop Nitrogen Use Efficient (NUE) rice in India. This was under an agreement signed by both …
The commission will decide on the mode and how the scheme is to be implemented in the state Meghalaya government is constituting a special commission to oversee the smooth implementation of the flagship Food Security scheme of the central government, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said today. "We will soon notify …
GAIBANDHA, Jun 23 (BSS): Crops cultivation pattern is being changed in the district through turning two-crop land into three and four crops one gradually that helps the growers earn more benefit apart from adaptation to a changing climatic condition. Bangladesh is one of the worst climate change affected countries and …
The Orissa high court on Tuesday issued notice to the state government and Centre while admitting a PIL accusing the state of illegally diverting PDS rice meant for BPL families. "The division bench of Chief Justice C Nagappan and Justice I Mohanty directed the chief secretary and food and civil …
New Delhi : It seems the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) had made up its mind on withholding all field trials of genetically modified crops even before the court-appointed Technical Experts Committee (TEC) last week recommended an indefinite moratorium. The six-member panel has asked to wait till a bio-safety …
London: The DNA of an average Kolkatan could be facing serious damage, thanks to the high levels of arsenic being consumed through the rice they eat. A joint Indo-British study announced by the University of Manchester have proven a link between rice containing high levels of arsenic and chromosomal damage, …
Rice tainted with high levels of arsenic has been linked to genetic damage that heightens the risk of cancer, a study published on Monday said. Naturally-occurring arsenic in drinking water is a long-known health hazard, especially in Bangladesh, where tens of millions of people depend on wells drilled in the …
New Delhi: The Congressled UPA government’s flagship Food Security Programme will take off in the capital on September 1. The scheme, which is likely to benefit around 27 lakh people in Delhi in the first phase, will now cover people with the below poverty line and the jhuggi and resettlement …
Ram Kumar, 36, a construction worker from Bihar's Madhubani district, does not have a ration card although he falls below the poverty line. His attempts to get a ration card have run into a maze of official delays. Denied subsidised foodgrain from the public distribution system (PDS) without a card, …
