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 …
Bowing to the pressure exerted by the powerful lobby of commission agents, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) has decided to withdraw its directive to make direct payment to farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh. Union Agriculture and Food Minister Sharad Pawar, who was in Chandigarh on Monday, had a …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday announced 200 days labour intensive work in drought-hit areas besides financial assistance for farmers who sustained 50 per cent or more crop loss, official sources said. The state government announced the package after chief minister Naveen Patnaik reviewed the drought situation at the State …
Carbon emission occurs during various stages of life cycle of food products. Greenhouse gases (GHG) emission from 24 Indian food items showed that animal food products (meat and milk) and rice cultivation mostly contributed to methane (CH4) emission, while food products from crops contributed to emission of nitrous oxide (N2O). …
A field experiment was conducted on rice seed production in rice-wheat cropping system to find out the effect of application of biofertilizers and urea on the grain yield and quality attributes of rice varieties at the research farm of Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India during 2 wet seasons …
The international food price crisis in 2007/08 corresponded with significant price increases in domestic markets across the developing world. Prices rose in most Asian countries, but not to world levels. China, India and Indonesia saw no significant increases. Africa saw very high maize price increases, though uncorrelated with international movements, …
This paper examines some of the key technical, institutional, policy and financial responses required to achieve the transformation to 'climate-smart' agriculture. Building on case studies from the field, the paper outlines a range of practices, approaches and tools aimed at: increasing the resilience to shocks by managing risks and reducing …
This document is developed by GRAIN and the Pesticides Eco-Alternatives Centre (PEAC) to raise Chinese farmers' awareness about the broad historical context of industrial agriculture, and how it paved the way for the introduction of modern varieties of crops and agricultural technologies.
To examine the critical issues surrounding the global challenge of food security, The Asia Foundation joined with the Asian Development Bank, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for a major conference,
ASSAM is all set to become a rice-surplus state. The state’s foodgrain production has jumped in FY10 and the trend is continuing in FY 11 as well. Talking to ET, Assam’s agriculture minister Pramila Rani Brahma said: “The state produced 40.70 lakh tonne of rice in 2008-09. The production in …
Guwahati, Sept. 21: The Centre has agreed to include Assam in the green revolution scheme and has asked the state to prepare an action plan. Bihar, Jharkhand, eastern Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and West Bengal are included under the scheme, called Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana programme.
Intake of toxic cadmium (Cd) from rice caused Itai-itai disease in the past and it is still a threat for human health. Therefore, control of the accumulation of Cd from soil is an important food-safety issue, but the molecular mechanism for the control is unknown. Herein, we report a gene …
Sandip Das Despite the ministry of environment and forest putting moratorium on the commercial cultivation of BT brinjal, Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company Limited (Mahyco), is undertaking research work on developing new varieties such as BT okra and BT rice. Usha Barwale Zehr, chief technology officer of Mahyco spoke to FE's …
The increase in the number of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients from the north central region of Sri Lanka has become a environmental health issue of national concern. Unlike in other countries where long-standing diabetes and hypertension are the leading causes of renal diseases, the majority of CKD patients from …
Tango with nature India has been using lakes, ponds and baolis (step wells) since ancient times ('What monsoon means', July 16-31, 2010). Delhi was once replete with water bodies. In the past 50 years, government agencies started disbanding natural ponds, lakes and baolis, declaring their water untested, and therefore, unfit …
Bhubaneswar: Refuting allegations that poor people in the KBK region died of gastroenteritis by consuming mango kernel and other uneatable stuff in recent months, the Odisha government on Monday claimed that Rs 2 a kg rice scheme was doing well in the area. Allegations that the people are deprived of …
BHUBANESWAR: As people keep falling ill or even drop dead in the tribal pockets of undivided Koraput, the politics of mango kernel has come back to haunt the State. Both the government and the Congress have begun quibbling over facts and figures as the epidemic keeps spreading dangerously. Over the …
KOLLAM: Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran has said that the expatriate Keralites also have directly or indirectly contributed to the decline in the acreage of paddy fields. Inaugurating a seminar on rehabilitation of NRKs organised as part of the district convention of Kerala Pravasi Federation here on Monday, the Minister said …
