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 …
Two days before the parliamentary debate, food minister KV Thomas on Sunday ruled out a demand from various political parties to universalise the public distribution system (PDS) against 67% coverage envisaged in the National Food Security Bill, 2013. “After long deliberations in the parliamentary standing committee, we have decided to …
Slogan-shouting TDP members disrupt Lok Sabha; Opposition leader Sushma Swaraj asks them to stage protest outside House The Lok Sabha on Tuesday made an attempt to discuss the ambitious National Food Security Bill but the debate was disrupted by Telugu Desam Party (TDP) members who shouted slogans in the well. …
The commission will decide on the mode and how the scheme is to be implemented in the state Meghalaya government is constituting a special commission to oversee the smooth implementation of the flagship Food Security scheme of the central government, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said today. "We will soon notify …
New Delhi : It seems the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) had made up its mind on withholding all field trials of genetically modified crops even before the court-appointed Technical Experts Committee (TEC) last week recommended an indefinite moratorium. The six-member panel has asked to wait till a bio-safety …
New Delhi: The Congressled UPA government’s flagship Food Security Programme will take off in the capital on September 1. The scheme, which is likely to benefit around 27 lakh people in Delhi in the first phase, will now cover people with the below poverty line and the jhuggi and resettlement …
Ram Kumar, 36, a construction worker from Bihar's Madhubani district, does not have a ration card although he falls below the poverty line. His attempts to get a ration card have run into a maze of official delays. Denied subsidised foodgrain from the public distribution system (PDS) without a card, …
A day after Congress president Sonia Gandhi asked the party-ruled states to implement national food security Bill in ‘letter and spirit’, food minister KV Thomas on Sunday said the biggest challenge is to improve the existing targeted public distribution system (TPDS) so that highly subsidised foodgrain reaches the masses. “The …
AARI has evolved more than 426 new varieties of different crops which is an instrument for substantially increase in the overall per acre yield. DG AARI Dr Noorul Islam said a record increase had been witnessed with the evolution of new varieties which had contributed a major role in the …
About 35 mn poor families may get benefits from the scheme which has the highest malnutrition rate in India Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan sounded the poll bugle on April 22 by announcing the availability of wheat at Re 1 a kg and rice at Rs 2 a kg …
GOADED by its perceived potential as a vote-winner, the UPA government on Wednesday chose to promulgate an ordinance to give effect to the Food Security Bill, which would give 67% the population the right to 5 kg of grain every month at highly subsidised rates of R1-3 per kg. The …
Seen as a potential vote-catcher for Cong-led coalition The government is all set to promulgate an ordinance to empower citizens with the right to food, after it failed to pass the proposed legislation during the budget session of Parliament. Seen as a potential vote-catcher for the Congress-led ruling coalition in …
The biggest advantage of developing seed banks is reduced cost About 500-odd organic farmers in Gujarat are trying to develop individual seed banks in a bid to resist the onslaught of genetically modified seeds. "The farmers are now developing seed bank as a measure against the invasion of genetically modified …
As climate changes, temperatures will play an increasing role in determining crop yield. Both climate model error and lack of constrained physiological thresholds limit the predictability of yield. We used a perturbed-parameter climate model ensemble with two methods of bias-correction as input to a regional-scale wheat simulation model over India …
As climate changes, temperatures will play an increasing role in determining crop yield. Both climate model error and lack of constrained physiological thresholds limit the predictability of yield. We used a perturbed-parameter climate model ensemble with two methods of bias-correction as input to a regional-scale wheat simulation model over India …
The environment ministry's Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) has cleared field trials for genetically modified rice, wheat, maize and castor for the Kharif season of 2013. The clearances - some of them extension of existing clearances that stood to lapse with state governments opposing field trials and others for relocating …
The State government is planning to provide sugar and wheat to Above Poverty Line (APL) ration cardholders under the Public Distribution System (PDS), Food and Civil Supplies Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao said on Monday. Rao told reporters that the department is working on details to supply wheat and sugar. If …
Ignoring concerns expressed by allies and civil society groups, the United Progressive Alliance government is all set to push for an ordinance on the Food Security Bill. The revised Bill along with Food Ministry’s 81 amendments will be tabled for approval in the Union Cabinet meeting on Thursday. Food Minister …
An agricultural dragnet has found no cases of unapproved genetically engineered wheat outside of a 123-acre field in Oregon after two months of an ongoing investigation, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday. The discovery of the wheat, not approved for cultivation anywhere in the world, shook the global market …
The UPA Government plans to call a special session of Parliament to pass the Food Security Bill after the Cabinet on Thursday deferred a proposal to pass an ordinance for implementing the same. The Food Security Bill, which the Government considers will be a game changer, aims to provide legal …
With substantial opposition to short cuts in passage, regular Parliament discussion in coming session seems the route The government was neither likely to promulgate an ordinance nor convene a special session of Parliament to discuss its ambitious social security scheme, the National Food Security Bill (NFSB), those in the know …
