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 …
The food ministry has submitted a ‘Plan B’ for the proposed Food Security Bill to the parliamentary standing committee for consideration after getting clearance from the prime minister, a source in the food ministry said. The new plan will provide food to a larger crosssection of population than originally thought. …
JAIPUR: To deal with the drought-like situation in Rajasthan, the state government has demanded Rs 7,424 crore from the Centre as well 27 lakh metric tones of wheat. The memorandum presented before the Central government is interim and includes the relief work for only 26 districts. The call on the …
Uttar Pradesh gets the maximum amount at Rs 277 crore, followed by Madhya Pradesh Rs 227 crore and Maharashtra Rs 196 crore The Centre has allocated over Rs 1,800 crore to states under the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) this year to raise foodgrains output by 25 million tonnes in …
If the Centre is not yet convinced that it can provide foodgrains to everyone and not just to those who are below the Poverty Line, it can turn to the example of several State governments who have already done so, said Surya Kanta Mishra, Leader of the Opposition in the …
Cynthia Rosenzweig heads the Climate Impacts Group at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. Recently she has taken on another role co-leading the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project. She explains that task to Nature Climate Change.
Developing countries are bracing themselves for the worst effects of rising corn, soy and wheat prices on their poorest people. One of the worst hot-spots is Yemen which is heavily dependent on food imports, including for 90% of its wheat, and where 10m people are hungry today and some 267,000 …
The prices of internationally traded maize and soybeans reached all-time peaks in July, following an unprecedented summer in both the United States and Eastern Europe in terms of high temperatures and lack of rain fall. Wheat prices have also soared to levels comparable to the 2011 peaks but below all-time …
Experts have warned that vital corn-producing and soybean-producing states in the U.S. are in the throes of intensifying drought conditions — a revelation that has resurrected concerns of sparking another global food price shock. In 2008, it was a spike in food grain prices in global markets that led to …
The government has in principle decided to expand the coverage of population under the proposed Food Security Bill to include almost 70 per cent of Indians, who will have the legal right to cheap food, against the earlier proposal of 64 per cent of the same. It will also end …
India appears set to export two million tonnes of wheat at subsidised prices as part of a plan to offload surplus grain, sparking concern among anti-poverty activists and raising questions for some of the country's trading partners.
The country’s foodgrain output will touch an all-time high of 257.44 million tonnes in 2011-12, according to the Government’s latest estimates. This represents a 5.17 per cent growth over the final output of 244.78 mt in 2010-11. The fourth advance estimates, released on Tuesday, pegged the foodgrain output 5 mt …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Tuesday approved a Food Ministry proposal to export two million tonnes of wheat from its buffer stock in an attempt to ease the storage crisis. The clearance came despite objections by the Department of Expenditure, which felt the proposal would involve an …
Waterlogging and secondary salinisation have become serious problems in canal irrigated areas of arid and semi-arid regions. This study examined hydrology and estimated the seasonal net groundwater recharge of an irrigated semi-arid region located in the Haryana State of India where about 500 000 ha area are waterlogged and unproductive, …
Primary sector's contribution to GSDP is declining, that of secondary & tertiary increasing Punjab—the pioneer of Green Revolution—is facing stagnancy in agricultural growth. According to an economic survey, the share of primary sector in the gross state domestic product (GSDP) is constantly decreasing in the state while that of secondary …
A double judge bench of Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) directed the State government to take strong measures to save wheat from getting rotten in the monsoon. The Bench also asked to register cases and get the matter probed by Vigilance Establishment and Economic Offence Wing (EOW) in connection with …
Thomas promises way forward for stuck legislation in a fortnight discussion on with Planning Commission, others Union food minister K V Thomas on Monday said a ‘Plan B’ was being prepared for getting the stuck Food Security Bill cleared, but would not explain what this consisted of. The Bill, to …
NEW DELHI, 24 JUNE: India is planning to export two million tons of wheat from the government stock involving a subsidy of Rs 1,000 crore, and a decision in this regard is expected soon. The proposal is to be taken up by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) shortly …
As monsoon steadily progresses across the country, the government on Thursday said that about 6.6 million tonnes of freshly procured wheat — worth about Rs 12,000 crore — spread across Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan was at the risk of damage for want of sufficient scientific storage facilities before …
New Delhi An empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on Tuesday approved additional supplies of five million tonne of subsidised wheat and rice through ration shops to people below the poverty line (BPL) and another three million tonnes of wheat to bulk consumers to ease storage in choked warehouses, food minister …
LUCKNOW: With reports of wheat stocks rotting across the country, the state government on Sunday said it would put in place stringent measures to ensure no foodgrain was wasted. Holding a review meeting of wheat purchase and storage ahead of the imminent monsoon, chief secretary Jawed Usmani said officers should …
