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 …
With a view to increasing the competitiveness, productivity, quality and market access of Nepal's agricultural sector through crop diversification, commercialisation of farming and high value crops, the country's development partners have proposed three projects which are expected to be implemented within the next fiscal year. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) …
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday rebutted his senior colleague and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar over the introduction of Bt Brinjal, contesting his stand that the decision of an expert panel giving clearance is final and Centre does not have any say. Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Jairam Ramesh …
Parties Lash Out At Minister For Rising Food Prices; Cong Wants Solution, Maya Seeks His Ouster Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI ADAY after he indicated that milk prices were set to go up to meet the demand supply mismatch, Union food and agriculture minister Sharad Pawar was virtually under seize, …
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has sought the intervention of Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee to ensure smooth flow of PDS items to Assam to arrest price rise of essential commodities. In a letter to the Union Agriculture Minister, Gogoi expressed concern over price rise of …
The central government missed all the red flags that pointed to a sugar shortage for almost a year, generated sharply varying estimates of cane production, and kept prices artificially depressed from October 2008, leading to a situation where sugar prices in Delhi, at about Rs 50/kg today, are likely to …
THE DECISION earlier this week by the Cabinet Committee on Prices with regard to sugar, rice and wheat, pulses and edible oils will, at best, have more of a psychological impact than anything else. On sugar, for instance, the problem is demand and supply, and prices are unlikely to go …
Mounting protests against the proposed marine fisheries bill has put the Union agriculture ministry on its back foot. The bill restricts fishing in the deep seas and imposes stiff penalty on those violating the law. On December 16, the ministry issued a press release assuring the bill would be finalized …
The government will soon come out with an exhaustive manual for practical management of drought mitigation and relief measures. The drought manual is expected to prove an effective practical guideline for administrators, experts and civil society in implementing drought mitigation and relief measures and for alleviating distress of the drought-affected …
The Agriculture Ministry is cautious about projecting a bright prospect for the Rabi crop, saying much would depend on the weather situation in the coming months. Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar told reporters on Wednesday on the occasion of 81st Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the ICAR that he would rather …
The government has decided to set up two institutes to deal with the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture. Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said the government was in the process of setting up the National Institute on Biotic Stress Management and Indian Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology under the Indian …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Small and marginal farmers would be the worst sufferers of climate change, Union Minister for Agriculture and Food Sharad Pawar said here on Wednesday.
NEW DELHI: State-owned oil companies will pay Rs. 27 a litre, or 25 per cent higher from the existing level, for buying ethanol from sugar mills for blending with petrol, it is learnt. Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said an agreement had been reached between the oil …
The State Agriculture Department is targeting an annual growth rate of 2 per cent by 2011 for which a number of technological interventions are being initiated. The current growth rate for agriculture is 1.2 per cent. Revealing this at a press conference today, Agriculture Minister Pramila Rani Brahma said that …
THRISSUR: The Central Government is not proposing to ban the use of controversial insecticide endosulfan in the country, said Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar. He was talking to reporters on the sidelines of a function held to inaugurate the pilot project for replantation and rejuvenation of coconut palms on the …
Thrissur: Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said on Sunday that the Centre will not prohibit the use of Endosulfan as an expert committee that studied health problems allegedly caused by the pesticide did not recommend its ban.
`Its introduction without consulting the fishermen and other stakeholders would have adverse implications' CHIEF Minister M Karunanidhi requested Union Minister of Agriculture Sharad Pawar to initiate a wider dialogue with the fishermen and other stakeholders for bringing in the Marine Fisheries (Regulation and Management) Bill, 2009, which was inclusive and …
More than one-fifth of Indians are still undernourished in terms of simple energy and protein intake, despite an increase in per capita availability of food commodities, Union Minister for Agriculture Sharad Pawar said here on Friday. Addressing the fourth national conference on Krishi Vigyan Kendras at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University …
BHOPAL: A Day after Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar indicated that there was little likelihood of prices coming down, the Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday announced that it would sell cheap foodgrain in urban areas. Elections to municipal corporations and other urban bodies are due and the notification will be announced …
The impact of drought on agricultural output this kharif season is expected to weigh down the shoots of economic recovery with the first advance estimate projecting an 18 per cent dip in the kharif crop this year as compared to last year with cotton being the sole
