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 …
Efforts to anticipate how climate change will affect future food availability can benefit from understanding the impacts of changes to date. Here we show that in the cropping regions and growing seasons of most countries, with the important exception of the United States, temperature trends for 1980-2008 exceeded one standard …
The FAO Global Information and Early Warning System has released the latest Global Food Price Monitor, citing an increase in the FAO Cereal Price Index in April. Global prices of wheat and maize increased sharply last month, while global rice prices continued to decline.
An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on food is scheduled to meet on Monday to discuss the proposed National Food Security Bill and take a view on the suggestions made by the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and Rangarajan Committee. According to sources, the food ministry will place the …
One way of understanding how climate change is likely to affect global food production and food security is to better understand the recent past. That is, how have changes already influenced agricultural activities and production? For example, considerable debate has taken place on whether future impacts in agriculture will be …
Chandigarh Haryana rice millers are turning to biomass co-generation for captive power generation. Easy availability of rice husk and upgradation of technology at minimum cost prompted them to generate own power through this renewable energy resource. Till date seven projects of 15.45 mw based on biomass co-generation have been commissioned …
Centre nominates scientists belonging to ICAR and state agri universities to help farmers in 70 districts The Union Agriculture Ministry has nominated scientists belonging to the ICAR and state agricultural universities as resource-persons in 70 districts of eastern India in an attempt to give a fillip to the Centre
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 …
CUTTACK: Even as agriculture in the State is faced with a serious problem of low productivity and profitability, the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) here is set to bring out a slew of high-yielding cross-bred aromatic rice varieties in the next few years. With Geographical Indication Tagging (GITag) prohibiting basmati …
A mango that resembles an apple or smells like grapefruit. A mango that shrinks, but does not rot. But for the conservation initiative of a farmer in Karnataka’s Mandya district, such fruits would have been part of folklore. “These trees bear Tipu Sultan’s mangoes,” says Syed Ghani Khan of Kirgaval …
Indian being the important consumer of rice, the per capita availability of food (rice) had reached an all-time low of 64 kg per annum in 2008-09, which is 20 kg less than the minimum annual requirement of a normal person (NSSO survey). Therefore, to meet the nutritional needs of the …
Agriculture labourers migrating in search of employment NAGERCOIL: Kanyakumari is primarily an agrarian district with 83 per cent of its population residing in villages and 58.8 per cent of its working population engaged in agricultural and allied activities. Besides, being a coastal district, fishing is a predominant activity in the …
The main purposes of this paper were to assess effects of smallholder farmers access to livelihood capital (e.g. land, livestock and water) on livestock water productivity (LWP) and to evaluate impacts of selected interventions in reducing livestock water demand (per unit of livestock product) and therefore increasing LWP.
Most scientists agree that human activity that releases carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere is the dominant cause of climate change. The current concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is around 380 parts per million (ppm), up from 280 ppm in pre-industrial times. The Intergovernmental …
New Delhi, 30 March: The Supreme Court today stayed the Kerala High Court order allowing the state government to provide rice at Rs 2 per kg to all ration card holders. A Bench comprising Justices Mr Altamas Kabir and Cyriac Joseph issued a notice to Kerala government on the petition …
CHECK LAND SHARKS ASAD RAHMANI, director Bombay Natural History Society The Government of India should enact a wetland conservation act, on the lines of the Forest Conservation Act, 1980. But it should also consider the views of people dependent on wetlands. Millions of acres of village, semi-urban and urban wetlands …
Understanding crop water productivity over large river basins has significant implications for sustainable basin development planning. This report presents a new approach for analysis of water productivity (WP) of rice and wheat in the Indus and the Ganges river basins, South Asia, based on the integration of readily available remote …
KOCHI: A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday set aside the orders of the Election Commission and the Chief Electoral Officer restraining the State government from implementing its decision to extend the rice-at-Rs.2-a-kg scheme to the families of above poverty line (APL) category subject to certain conditions. …
