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 …
Sri Lanka Minister of Agrarian Services and Wildlife S.M. Chandrasena says that 300,000 acres of paddy cultivations were completely destroyed due to recent floods. Floods submerged 500,000 acres of paddy fields, damaged 458 big and small scale reservoirs, broke around 1,000 irrigation canals and bunds, the Minister said. Commissioner General …
DOES free import and export of food make life better for the average Indian family spending almost half its income on dal-roti? We may favour all things prefixed with the
Back to 'Something's Cooking' Dal-rice fusion by Richa Mittal Phara, a recipe made from chana dal and rice, is generally prepared in eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. It is steam cooked and therefore very healthy. It is served with green and imli ki chutney. The recipe is a complete meal …
Mamit district, known as the rice-bowl of Mizoram, has its eyes set on oil palm to provide a new crop to its farmers and at the same time contribute to the state
Guwahati: The Congress-led government in Assam is going into an overdrive before the polls to reach out to all sections of the population. Chief minister Tarun Gogoi today announced his government
BALASORE: The food inflation had a direct bearing on Makar Sankranti celebrations in the tribal region of Balasore district. To meet the expenses of the festivity, the tribals in Nilagiri area were forced to sell subsidised rice.
Methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas (GHG), is involved in a number of chemical and physical processes in the earth’s atmosphere, including global warming. In the global CH4 cycle, substantial amount of CH4 is consumed by biological processes. The only known biological sink for atmospheric CH4 is its oxidation in …
BHUBANESWAR: Farmers' organisations of the State have demanded rice at ` 2 a kg to every rural family as food security has been threatened because of the large-scale crop loss in the untimely rains in the first week of December. The farmers
This article summarizes the results of water productivity assessment in 10 river basins across Asia, Africa and South America, representing a range of agro-climatic and socio-economic conditions. Intensive farming in the Asian basins gives much greater agricultural outputs and higher water productivity. Largely subsistence agriculture in Africa has significantly lower …
Something is stirring in paddy fields across India. New seeds, new crop management techniques and newly minted food security policies are about to hit the countryside. Not all of the changes that are being forged in Krishi Bhawan, headquarters of the Union agriculture ministry, in the top-flight research institutions across …
Jai Sri is a common greeting in the Koraput countryside these days. A Paraja tribal woman working in her fields, a passing motorcyclist driving through the rutted lanes, a teacher heading for his school, they all greet each other and visitors with a Jai Sri. It has nothing to do …
A.V.Ragunathan International Rice Research Institute, Manila, assigns task CUDDALORE: The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Manila, the Philippines, has assigned the task of evaluating submergence-tolerant paddy varieties in Tamil Nadu to the Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University. Rm.Kathiresan, head and professor, Department of Agronomy, told The Hindu …
An intensive scheme has been taken up to bring some 1.50 lakh hectares of land under IRRI-Boro cultivation in 11 upazilas of the district with an output target of 5.62 lakh mts rice. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) sources said of the total, some 15,155 hectares will be brought under …
ABOUT 100 farmers in Karnataka destroyed a paddy field where multinational seed major DuPont was conducting field trials for genetically modified (GM) rice in collaboration with University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore. The police have arrested 12 farmers for vandalism and trespassing. The trial was on about a hectare field at …
PUDUKOTTAI: Paddy raised on an area of 21,000 hectares in the district has been damaged extensively following sharp showers in the district during November. The damage was caused due to inundation of paddy fields for several days and also due to the incidence of blast disease in the fields, said …
The policy to collect levy on rice was decided in the last week of October for the year 2010-11. Making partial changes in this policy the district collector has been authorized to gather information about levy collection in every fortnight or according to the necessity. Now the collector will decide …
With rise in temperature due to climate change, agricultural scientists have called for speedy development of various stress resistance varieties of rice for sustaining production in future.
The Maharashtra government on Sunday gifted five acres of land to veteran paddy innovator-farmer Dadaji Khobragade at his native village in Chandrapur district. Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar met the septuagenarian, twice recipient of the National Innovation Foundation
Awareness rally on Rajarajan 1,000 technique flagged off Overview:Collector T.N. Hariharan (left), inspecting the paddy transplantation being RAMANATHAPURAM: As many as 6,000 hectares will be brought under the
