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 …
Hexaploid bread wheat is generally more salt tolerant than its tetraploid progenitor. However, the physiological bases and the relative contributions of immediate effects of polyploidization and subsequently acquired adaptive changes in the salt tolerance of hexaploid wheat remained elusive. This study compared a large suite of morphophysiological traits in synthetic …
New Ration Cards For All Beneficiaries By March 2015 The state government will implement the Food Security Act brought by the Centre in the state from October 2, food and civil supplies minister Anoop Jacob said here on Monday. A high-level meeting convened by chief minister Oommen Chandy here on …
The Narendra Modi government’s decision to disallow field trials of 15 varieties of genetically modified (GM) crops came on top of several state governments virtually thwarting such trials of 45 GM crop varieties approved by the regulator during the previous UPA regime. The Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) gave approval …
Chief minister Harish Rawat on Tuesday announced that the centrally sponsored Food for All scheme, called Khadyan Yojna, offering subsidized food grains including wheat and rice to all families, whether below or above poverty line, would be implemented in the Himalayan state in right earnest from August 1. The announcement …
Climate change could pose an even greater threat to global food production than previously thought, according to new research. Rising temperatures will not only damage heat-sensitive crops – they’ll also increase toxic air pollution, which will harm crops even further. The study, out this week in the journal Nature Climate …
Ozone pollution, which worsens breathing problems and causes air quality warnings, may compound global warming's damage to the world's food crops, according to a new study. Ground-level ozone, formed mainly from pollutants emitted by burning fossil fuels for cars, industry and power plants, increases as temperatures rise. That's why air …
Future food production is highly vulnerable to both climate change and air pollution with implications for global food security. Climate change adaptation and ozone regulation have been identified as important strategies to safeguard food production5,6, but little is known about how climate and ozone pollution interact to affect agriculture, nor …
The world faces a small but substantially increased risk over the next two decades of a major slowdown in the growth of global crop yields because of climate change, finds this new research by Stanford professor David Lobell and Claudia Tebaldi from the National Center for Atmospheric Research In many …
The Green Revolution bypassed Bihar in its first wave in the 1960s and 1970s. Subsequently, during a short interval in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the agricultural growth rate reached almost 3 percent per year, one of the highest in the country, though over a smaller base. Even this …
Continuous rise in prices of rice in the open market has forced households to lower their consumption. According to a latest Government survey, trends also show an increasing reliance on ration shops to buy rice and other food grains at controlled rates. According to the National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) …
The government on Thursday said it proposed to restructure the Food Corporation of India that procured, stored and distributed foodgrain to identified beneficiaries under the Targeted Public Distribution System. Presenting his budget proposals for the food sector, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the government was committed to reducing transportation …
This twentieth edition of the Agricultural Outlook published jointly by OECD and FAO provides market projections to 2023 for major agricultural commodities, biofuels and fish across 41 countries and 12 regions: OECD member countries (European Union as a region), key non-OECD agricultural producers (such as India, China, Brazil, Russian Federation …
With the completion of distribution of new ration cards among intended beneficiaries of National Food Security Scheme (NFSS) in most of the 13 districts in Uttarakhand, the State Government is going to implement this scheme from Tuesday. “Except four districts, including Dehradun, Pauri, Bageshwar and Pithoragarh, the remaining nine districts …
5921–5941One seventh of the world's population lives in the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) and the fertile region sustains agricultural food crop production for much of South Asia, yet it remains one the most under-studied regions of the world in terms of atmospheric composition and chemistry. In particular, the emissions and chemistry …
PATNA: The central government is committed to ensuring food to everyone by fully implementing the National Food Security Act (NFSA) across the country by July 14, said Union minister of food and consumer affairs Ram Vilas Paswan on Sunday. The beneficiaries would be identified by then. But, only five states …
Poor infrastructure in the way of legal entitlement of foodgrain for poor In line with the Centre's promise to work in close coordination with state governments, the Union government is considering extending the deadline given to states for identification of beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act beyond July 5. …
The National Food Security Act was supposed to be implemented in Assam from June 1 but this could not be achieved due to certain technical hurdles. On the other hand, 52 lakh families have already been given beneficiaries identity cards. The first hurdle in the implementation of the Act is …
After verification, 9.4 lakh households in Delhi have been found eligible to avail of the benefits of the Food Security Scheme that was introduced by the previous Sheila Dikshit-led Delhi Government. These eligible households will receive their food security ration cards within a month. The Delhi Government’s Department of Food, …
Household consumption of various goods and services in India 2011-12. The report is based on information collected during 2011-12 from 101651 households in 7469 villages and 5268 urban blocks spread over the entire country.
Wheat-growing regions in Australia are set for a drier winter amid a looming El Nino event, which can bring below-average rain to the country’s east and south. The odds for below-average rainfall is more than 60 percent from June to August in parts of southern Western Australia, most of South …
