The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: To meet the challenge of food demand of a growing population in developing countries, cereal yields will have to be increased by 40 per cent and net irrigation water requirements by40-50 per cent. An additional 100200 million hectares of land may be required to meet double …
Sudha Nambudiri | KOCHI: The entire coastal belt in Kerala may come under the Coastal Management Zone-II if one goes by the population criterion mentioned in the recommendations of the M S Swaminathan Committee for the newly proposed Coastal Management Zone Act. According to the new recommendations, any developmental activity …
CHENNAI: Preserving biodiversity, whether through age-old traditions or modern biotechnology, is essential to combat the impacts of climate change, according to agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan. Delivering a lecture on the management of climate change for sustainable food security at the Indian Institute of Technology here on Monday, Prof. Swaminathan called …
Business Standard / New Delhi August 20, 2008, 5:48 IST By pointing out that the overwhelming majority of farmers are economically worse off than the lowest-paid government employee, the apex body of farmers' organisations has not unveiled any secret. This has been well known for some time. And although the …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi August 18, 2008, 4:54 IST The apex body for farmers' organisations has stated in a representation to the government that even big farmers were worse off than the lowest-paid government employees. It has charged the government with discrimination against farmers vis-
Food is the first among the hierarchical needs of a human being and this is likely to be the worst sufferer under conditions of global warming and sea level rise Prof M.S. Swaminathan Food security is a major concern in an era of climate change. Adverse changes in precipitation, temperature …
The draft Coastal Management Zone (CMZ) notification published recently by the Ministry of Environment and Forests for public comments will replace the existing Costal Regulation Zone (CRZ) when it is finalised. Attempts to protect the coastal stretch started in 1991 when developments were regulated with respect to the high tide …
M.S. Swaminathan It is hoped that at the Rome Conference on world food security, Indian representatives will serve as a bright affirming flame in the midst of the sea of despair we see around us. A high-level conference on World Food Security has been convened by the Food and Agriculture …
Monday and Tuesday have been the coolest days during the month of May this year in the region. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicts the weather is going to more or less remain equally pleasant for the next three days-Wednesday, Thursday and Friday-as well. So is there anything unusual about …
Baskets and averages have no meaning when you have extreme economic variations tough job M. Mohammed Ibrahim in Pondy Bazaar, T. Nagar. As the clamour over rising prices grows, some senior economists say that the way that the government calculates the consumer price index and the food basket needs to …
NEW DELHI: Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine and a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies, Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is once again agitating for an agricultural revolution - this time a perpetual one. The 82-year-old scientist, regarded in India as the father of …
Eminent agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan has called for setting up an Indian trade organisation as a national counterpart of the WTO. Addressing an "International Conference on Natural Rubber Extension and Development,' organised by the Rubber Board, he said there was need to segregate the support extended to farmers for their …
The State government has demanded that the Centre implement the agriculture package for Idukki district, submitted by agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan, in a time-bound manner. Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan told reporters here on Friday that the package, aimed at development of the plantation and farming sectors, was drawn up in …
The M.S. Swaminathan Commission, appointed by the Central government to study the distressed farm sector in Idukki district, has submitted its report to Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, team leader S. Balaravi has said. Speaking to The Hindu over the telephone on Thursday, Dr. Balaravi said one of the issues …
India, now under scrutiny due to rice export curbs and growing consumption that have helped drive grain prices to record highs, could help ease global food security fears, M S Swaminathan, the country's most revered rural economist, said. A rich diversity of secondary food crops, a huge base of rural …
From the rice paddies of Asia to the wheat fields of Australia, the soaring price of food is breaking the budgets of the poor and raising the spectres of hunger and unrest, experts warn. A billion people in Asia are seriously affected by the surging costs of daily staples such …
Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today met agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan and sought his advice on how to make fallow land cultivable and increase productivity across the state. Members of the state agriculture commission had met a week ago and decided to seek the opinion of the relevant government departments on …
Open Forum, the NGO which jointly organised Saturday's seminar on inflation with the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA), describes itself as a "development organisation'. As per its credentials, "Open Forum works towards use of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) for promoting sustainable development and human rights, in India and in …
To most Indians, turmeric or haldi is a part of growing up, a magic cure-all for the excesses of childhood. A classic "grandmother's remedy", the virulent yellow powder or paste has been applied to the scrapes and cuts of generations of children. But in the US, two scientists were granted …
