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 …
COME winters, farmers in 50 districts of the country will be covered by an experimental crop insurance scheme by the Centre. The new scheme is a modified version of the current programme with new features like providing indemnity and advance relief to farmers. The unit area for the new insurance …
BHUBANESWAR: To fight under nutrition, the agriculture ministry has lined up several incentives to boost the production of pulses in the State. Only last year, high inflation triggered a drastic fall in the per capita pulse consumption. The per capita pulse consumption in the State has fallen to mere 11gm/day …
Agriculture and Food Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday laid bare his scepticism of the proposed National Food Security Bill as recommended by the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) last week. While he maintained that he had not received any formal communication from the NAC as yet, he refrained from …
Minister breaks rank to voice dissent over Food Security Bill target. Sharad Pawar In the first sign of dissent within the ruling UPA government, Agriculture & Food Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday indicated that covering two-thirds of the population under the proposed Food Security Bill was not feasible. The veteran …
Decision on minimum support prices for rabi crops to be taken today Asks Rajasthan to start procurement of bajra National Food Security Act in the pipeline Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar addresses the media in Jaipur. JAIPUR: Union Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday described the foodgrain stocks …
National conference of agriculture, animal husbandry and food-civil supplies ministers of 12 states would begin in Jaipur on Tuesday. Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar will inaugurate the conference. Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh would be participating in the conference, which …
After Agriculture and food minister Sharad Pawar had rejected the Supreme Court proposal for free distribution of excess foodgrains in the government godowns instead of allowing them to rot, the top court again questioned the Centre on "inadequate" storage facilities, saying it would not allow such wastage when people were …
Since May the media has been beaming images of foodgrain rotting in various parts of the country. FCI’s investigation revealed that grain costing nearly Rs 50 lakh was damaged at Harduaganj, Orai and Hapur in Uttar Pradesh. “We have to procure all the grain that farmers bring to us if …
UNION agriculture minister Sharad Pawar has approved blacklisting of Dow AgroSciences India Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical of the US, on charges of bribing Indian officials for speedy approval of three pesticides. “The government will exclude the company from the process of purchasing pesticides for the next five …
In 2010, the links between the financial markets and agricultural trade flows have become both stronger and more visible. This has happened through (a) the growth of agricultural commodity markets, and (b) the expansion in size and reach of powerful transnational and national food conglomerates, which are investing heavily in …
FCI to pick up rice for PDS, to pay upgrade charges; one-time relaxation of norms allowed With the Centre agreeing to pay upgrade charges for the rice and relaxing the norms, the PAU-201 issue has been resolved. Punjab Food and Civil Supplies Minister Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon, who recently had …
Nistula Hebbar New Delhi: The food ministry seems all set to spike some of the more ambitious proposals made by the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC), because it sees some of them as being too liberal and not taking into account existing systems of procurement and distribution. One of …
With India having the highest number of oral cancer cases caused mostly by tobacco consumption and 8-9 lakh people killed due to the addiction, the Union Health Ministry has urged the Agriculture Ministry to draw up a long-term plan to find an alternative crop for all cultivators of tobacco so …
BHUBANESWAR: Good agriculture growth still eludes the State. As per the mid-term appraisal report of the Eleventh Plan, the growth of agriculture during the period 2005-09 has been only 2.08 per cent. The target has been to achieve a growth rate of 4 per cent. The report categorised Andhra Pradesh, …
Agitation against Coastal Regulation Zone Notification 2010 Mass conventions planned on November 21 Plea to increase kerosene quota for fish workers KOLLAM: Fish workers across the country are gearing up to launch strong agitations demanding the withdrawal of the Coastal Regulation Zone Notification 2010 issued recently by the Union Ministry …
The total foodgrain production in the ongoing kharif season is likely to be 114.63 million tonnes (mt), 10.4 per cent higher than the drought-hit 2009-10. Last year, the kharif foodgrain output was 103.84 mt, as drought had marred paddy production. Despite concerns regarding adverse effect on standing crops due to …
New Delhi: With foodgrain production in 2010-2011 all set to wipe off the deficiencies of last year because of good monsoon, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Thursday assured the nation that output looks comfortable to meet all needs, but declined to lift the ban on wheat and rice exports despite …
