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 …
Barring Anantapur district, the remaining 22 districts of Andhra Pradesh have reported a deficit in rainfall that ranged -7 per cent to -31 per cent., hitting agricultural operations to a great extent. Drought-stricken Anantapur district, however, managed to reach the normal ‘as-on-date' average. Though the deficit in the State has …
The paper reports the results of an empirical study on the profitability of rice cultivation in the East Calcutta Wetlands region where untreated sewage water from the city of Calcutta, India, is used for the purpose of irrigation during the winter/summer crop. The results show that plots using wastewater containing …
This study has focused on impacts of increasing production costs on rice price as well food security situation in Bangladesh. The research report has estimated rice demand according to the consumption rate of growing people. Paddy rice production cost and rice price, and in the same time to find out …
If you are a farmer in India, chances of succumbing to a snake bite are greater than anywhere else in the world. While the country is one of the top destinations for medical tourism, in the case of snake bite casualties, we appear to be mired in the Dark Ages. …
Ramana Murthy’s article on “Paddy Glut and Farmer Distress in Andhra Pradesh” (EPW, 16 July 2011) captures the intensity and root cause of the procurement problem in the state though it does not give a clear-cut solution. Murthy simplifies the importance of self-help groups (SHGs) in procuring paddy in Andhra …
The government Saturday put on hold non-basmati rice export in the wake of litigation over the process adopted by the Commerce Ministry for implementation of an Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) decision allowing the export of 10 lakh tonnes of the same. “...operation and implementation of the allocation made in …
The government plans to amend the Pesticide Control Act, which was introduced in 1980. Agriculture Minister Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane said that the Pesticides Control Act No. 33 was 30 years old and thereby the contents of pesticides are monitored by using old technologies. Therefore, to find solutions to pesticide-related problems, …
Good monsoon, higher MSP help The country is heading for a record foodgrains production in the 2010-11 crop year at 241.56 million tonnes, with wheat and pulses output touching an all time high of 85.93 million tonnes and 18.09 million tonnes respectively. Union Agriculture Secretary P. K. Basu attributed the …
Rice production in Sindh would likely be decreased in 2011, in comparison of production of 2010, because a large number of flood-hit growers could not cultivate rice crops on their lands due to dread of floods. Reliable sources inside Sindh Agriculture department told Business Recorder on Tuesday that Agriculture department …
Rice growers of the Jammu region are a worried lot these days. Though they are expecting a bumper crop this season, they apprehend that there will be no buyers for their crop as there is no agriculture marketing system in the state. For the first time this year, the Agriculture …
Rice traders are looking at the Kakinada belt of Andhra Pradesh as the main sourcing point to ship out non-basmati grain, following the Empowered Group of Ministers' (EGoM) decision to allow up to 10 lakh tonnes (lt) of export. According to trade sources, double-polished parboiled rice with five per cent …
The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, would launch a portal exclusive for rice on Saturday. The portal, developed by Directorate of Rice Research (DRR) here, will help stakeholders to get information on all aspects of rice. The Rice Knowledge Management Portal (RKMP), funded by National Agricultural Innovation Project, would use …
Andhra farmers shun growing paddy this kharif in absence of buyers, storage space. Analysts say this perhaps the first time in the countyr that paddy farmers have resorted to such a drastic step, that too in a green revolution belt.
Achanta, a small village in Andhra Pradesh, hit the headlines in 1967 with a record rice yield in the kharif or monsoon crop season. It was the time of the Green Revolution. N Subba Rao, a farmer from the village, harvested three tonnes of paddy from just one kilogramme of …
New Delhi In order to avoid imports of grain for implementing the proposed food security Bill in years when monsoon fails, the government will include a provision in the Bill to allow beneficiaries to get cash instead of grain. According to sources, the requirement of grain for the proposed food …
Will entitle 75% of rural homes and half of urban ones to subsidised grain; NAC recommendations diluted. Diluting some recommendations of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC), an empowered group of ministers (eGoM) today cleared the draft Food Security Bill, which has proposed a legal entitlement for subsidised grain …
The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on Food on Monday cleared the crucial Food Security Bill, which seeks to entitle 75 per cent of the BPL (below poverty line) population and 50 per cent of the urban population to heavily subsidised food grains. It also lifted the ban on export …
