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 …
Early last year, the bush storyteller Murray Hartin penned a 14-stanza poem in three hours flat. Rain From Nowhere is about a farmer on the brink of ruin who receives an empathetic letter from his father. A celebration of resilience and hope, it is as moving a piece of Australian …
The government is likely to notify Pusa 1121 rice variety, which is the world's longest grain, as basmati, as a ban on shipment of non-basmati rice prevents its sale abroad. "The agriculture ministry is likely to send a proposal either this week or next week to the cabinet for approving …
The study reveals that materialism is on the rise in rural Punjab as most farmers have adopted new housing patterns coupled with all the facilities previously found in urban areas only. The availability of more durable goods with majority of the farmers indicates a clear shift towards material possession. Areas …
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) in its third quarterly report on Saturday said that increased production of agriculture commodities would help reduce the current account deficit. THE DISAPPOINTING HARVESTS OF KEY CASH CROPS ARE PARTICULARLY TROUBLING FOR PAKISTAN: "The raise in the commodity production would not only raise farm …
Much as the United States President George W. Bush and the US secretary of state Con-doleezza Rice would like to believe that 'apparent improvement' in the diets of people in India and China is among the causes of the current global food crisis, the food crisis is the result of …
Rice is a staple food of a large majority of the people of Jammu & Kashmir. Being a predominantly hill state, the area is mostly sloppy & undulating, rain fed coupled with erratic weather. However out of 15027 thousand quintals of total foodgrain production in the state, 30.49 per cent …
South Indian rice varieties, which the government intended to promote in overseas markets, have fallen prey to the export ban on non-basmati rice, traders and industry officials said. The government had accorded geographical indications (GI) status to two rice varieties from Kerala
Palakkad is popularly known as the Gateway to Kerala. Endless vistas of green paddy fields greet a visitor entering the district. Pallakad is dotted with valleys, hillocks, rivers, forests, mountains streams, dams and irrigation projects. It is also the rice-bowl of Kerala, the land of Navara rice. Navara is now …
Navara paysam Though Navara tastes "a little rough' compared to other varieties of rice, Navara paysam makes a delectable sweet dish. It is made by adding jaggery to well cooked Navara. This mixture is allowed to cook some more till it turns into a smooth paste. Dry fruits fried in …
Global warming will seriously affect ecology and people's lives in Japan, reducing rice yields by 5 percent from current levels around 2050 in the western regions of Kinki and Shikoku, the Environment Ministry said Thursday. Damage from floods could swell by 1 trillion yen a year around 2030, the ministry …
THE government has decided to drop plans of importing wheat in view of the record local procurement that has put the country in a very comfortable position compared to the last two years. This was a key decision of a meeting of a group of ministers (GoM) on food grains …
The present studies are based on the feedback provided by Punjab fish farmers practising composite fish culture of Indian major and exotic carps. According to them, during the southwest monsoon, in ponds in the vicinity of toxicant (monocrotophos)-treated paddy fields, the eye lens of most of the culturable fishes became …
Precisely when many in the developed bloc were frantically counting their money at the height of a surreal shock over subprime rate, the globalising world was jolted by a potential crisis of subsistence that would hit the poor and other vulnerable sections very hard. Is there a link, therefore, between …
THE government has planned to eliminate monga (near famine situation) through cultivating early variety of paddy in five northern districts by 2010. It has undertaken a plan to cultivate BRRI dhan-33 variety of paddy, developed by the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute. in 40,000 hectares of land in the districts this …
The Punjab government has asked the Centre to include the state in the National Food Security Mission (NFSM)-Rice to ensure higher contribution to the Central pool of foodgrains. In a communiqu
Cyclone-hit Myanmar faces food shortages and may need to import rice if farmers in devastated areas do not get immediate help to plant a new crop, the UN food agency said on Thursday. Some 20 percent of rice fields in five declared disaster zones, including the Irrawaddy delta rice bowl, …
Burma's military rulers have appealed for international help to get the county's cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta rice farmers back to their paddy fields, amid concerns about food shortages if they miss the planting season. The request came as Burma's state television yesterday said a military-sponsored constitution had won the support of …
Total paddy output this year is likely to go up by 2.3 per cent, hitting a new record of 666 million tonnes. This will take the per hectare output to 4.19 tonnes as against 3.90 tonnes in 1999 and 4.11 tonnes in 2007, according to the latest report from the …
