Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
New Delhi The government has allowed the import of seeds of new varieties of wheat and paddy for trial and evaluation purposes, Parliament was informed on Friday. In July, the agriculture ministry had revised the New Policy on Seeds Development of 1988 to allow the import of a specific quantity …
State Bank of India commits investment of Rs 40,000 crore to fund projects The State’s maiden international investment meet, exclusively for agriculture sector, on Thursday attracted proposals of over Rs 53,000 crore by 31 players in agri-business projects amid protests by farmers against private investment in farm and allied sectors. …
Scheme to distribute 3.5 lakh birds to households The Department of Agriculture has sought Rs.20 crore from the Union Ministry of Agriculture to augment both egg and poultry meat production in the State. A poultry project, which envisages distribution of around 3.5 lakh birds to households in the State, was …
Social activists up in arms against proposed reforms; impact on procurement feared The Union Government's new move to give primacy in the revised draft of the National Food Security Bill, 2011, to controversial schemes like cash transfers and issuance of food coupons to identified public distribution system beneficiaries in lieu …
New Delhi The Cabinet will likely revise the ethanol price for the mandatory 5% blending with petrol later this month, renewable energy minister Farooq Abdullah said on Monday, as the sugar industry which produces the bio-fuel out of the by-products of the sweetener intensified protests against the protracted decision-making process. …
CM asks farmers not to be wary of global summit The State Government will not dole out fertile farm land to investors at the upcoming Global Agribusiness and Food Processing Summit scheduled for December 1 and 2, Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda has said. “Let me assure the farmers …
When it comes to food exports from one of the world's biggest consumers, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar often holds the trump card with his four decades of experience and pivotal position in the coalition government. This week, he's likely to push for at least 500,000 tonnes of sugar exports, ploughing …
THE ‘CROP holiday’ by farmers of Andhra Pradesh, in protest against high agricultural input costs and low procurement prices, is entering its second season. The three lakh acres left uncultivated during the kharif or summer season will lie fallow during the upcoming rabi or winter season as well. The passive …
Having underscored the need to address issues to pull out the agricultural economy from problems, President Pratibha Patil on Sunday suggested a Committee of Governors to evolve mutually beneficial models for a farmer-industry partnership, focusing on rain-fed area farming. The Committee would make suitable recommendations and also prepare a concept …
After a lot of wrangling within various ministries, it seems the country’s first ever National Manufacturing Policy (NMP) is finally going to see the light of the day. At a meeting tomorrow, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) is likely to give nod to the implementation of the policy …
New Delhi With the ministries concerned ironing out their differences, the Union Cabinet is likely to approve the National Manufacturing Policy on Tuesday. The policy, which aims at augmenting the share of manufacturing in GDP to 25% within a decade and create 100 million jobs, had earlier received approval in …
It was in January this year that Thomas was given independent charge of the Food portfolio after Pawar requested that his burden be reduced. So Pawar was divested of Food and the portfolio given to his junior minister. Despite best of personal relations, the two have been sparring since. Consider …
The Union Agriculture Ministry has approved Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, as a Centre of Excellence for bajra. Stating this in Hisar, the university's Director (Research) R. P. Narwal said Rs. 1 crore has been sanctioned to popularise bajra , known as the primary food of the poor. …
Pawar announces mega plans for mechanisation in 12th Plan Faced with farm labour shortage following the introduction of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday announced mega plans for mechanisation in the 12th Five-Year Plan. “With the successful implementation of the MGNREGS …
New Delhi: Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said the proposed food security Act should target only needy sections of society for nutritional cover, citing an adverse impact on economy in case its ambit is widened — a stance contrary to the draft bill approved by the empowered group of …
The increase in India’s food subsidy bill after the introduction of the Food Security Act, which will guarantee subsidised grains to a large section of population, could damage the country’s financial health, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said here on Wednesday. The situation is worrying even now, the minister said at …
Decision on rabi MSP soon: The Cabinet is expected to take a decision on the MSP of rabi crops, including wheat, soon. Sharad Pawar said his ministry had already forwarded its recommendations on the basis of suggestions given by the CACP. “It (decision on MSP) is expected at the earliest,” …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to meet 10 chief ministers this month to finalise a strategy to deal with agrarian and land reforms, an official said here Sunday. A National Council for Land Reforms (NCLR), under the chairmanship of the prime minister, was set up earlier this year with …
The agriculture ministry will ask the Indian arm of Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta to stop import and marketing of its flagship insecticide Emamectin Benzoate in India soon. The ministry’s decision, once notified, will put curtains down on a four-year old tussle the company had been waging against the ministry after …
Inter-ministerial differences over policy sorted out. A key group of ministers (GoM) on Friday sorted out divergent views on the manufacturing policy, which proposes easing labour and environment laws but had been stalled due to inter-ministerial differences. “There were certain issues raised by the ministries of environment, labour and MSME …
