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 …
The National Food Security Bill is based on Sarvodaya principles as it has adopted a human life cycle approach, looks at providing coarse grains (nutri-cereals) at subsidised rates, giving impetus to the public distribution system, giving woman the position as the head of the family, and synergising drinking water, sanitation, …
The government on Monday proposed the setting up of a parliamentary panel to go into the issue of farmer suicides in the wake of contradictory figures emerging from the States and the Union Home Ministry's National Crime Records Bureau. The suggestion came after the government was cornered in the Rajya …
It is not just political parties that are unhappy with the way the government has gone about the business of opening up FDI in multi-brand retail, dissent against the controversial move has now come from one of the most respected names in Indian agriculture, MS Swaminathan. Sounding a word of …
New Delhi The government has been on an acquisition spree of agricultural land since the economy opened two decades ago, seriously affecting basic food security and driving the “small farmer” to suicide, the Supreme Court has said. In the “name of planned development or industrial growth” an 1894 law has …
The Supreme Court has pulled up the State governments for their callous approach to acquisition of land from farmers and for issuing notifications in violation of the procedure under the Land Acquisition Act. Decrying mindless acquisitions, a Bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and S.J. Mukhopadhaya said the consequent notifications were …
The Supreme Court has come down heavily on the Central and state governments for the misuse of the archaic Land Acquisition Act in the past two decades of the opening of economy to acquire farmers’ land in name of development. The court sought to stop the trend to save precious …
Welcoming the Kuttanad Prosperity Council's decision to move ahead with the Kuttanad package, protecting the environment and ensuring that Kuttanad was turned into a pollution-free region, the Kerala Shasthra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP) has however sounded a note of caution that the ongoing construction works could turn detrimental to these objectives. …
The Central government’s MSP has proven to be unrealistic and ultimately disastrous for India’s farmers. Imagine that the first of the month rolls around triggering a ritual that never fails to give you a distinct, intangible sense of well-being —logging on to your online bank account and seeing your account …
Remarkable increase in rice production in island nation: M.S. Swaminathan The draft Indian Food Security Bill could provide valuable inputs to a similar Sri Lankan initiative, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said. The Indian Bill is designed to ensure that every citizen has a legal right to food. Mr. Rajapaksa made …
Farmers are feeling buoyed these days as the Supreme Court has recently admitted their plea on the non-implementation of the MS Swaminathan Committee report on minimum support price (MSP) and other critical issues related to their welfare. The court has asked the government to respond on the issues. The PIL …
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday asked Sharad Pawar-headed agriculture ministry to respond to a PIL which sought implementation of the National Policy on Farmers and said despite spiralling agricultural product prices, the tillers continue to be poor and debt-ridden and were forced to commit suicide. A bench of …
Minister for Health, Horticulture and Floriculture Sham Lal Sharma was awarded the Agriculture Leadership Award 2011 in New Delhi yesterday for his outstanding performance in the horticulture sector in the state. The award was given to him by Union Minister for Law and Minorities Affairs Salman Khurshid in the presence …
The Union Textiles Ministry has constituted a high-level committee to study the functioning of Arulpuram Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) and to advise the government on technical solutions for ensuring zero liquid discharge in the dyeing process, among other issues. According to a communiqué received at Tirupur Exporters Association here …
Agriculture experts, industry representatives and the Union minister of state for food and consumer affairs on Thursday called for reforms in the agriculture sector to improve rural economy. They had gathered for an agriculture leadership summit on the theme 'policy reforms for farm growth'. The reforms suggested at the conference …
It will give advice on ensuring zero liquid discharge in dyeing process The Union Textiles Ministry has constituted a high-level committee to study the functioning of Arulpuram Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) and to advise the government on technical solutions for ensuring zero liquid discharge in the dyeing process, among …
Nuclear safety has emerged as a key issue following the tsunami disaster at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Complex in Japan. Scientists are calling on the nuclear establishment to adopt natural measures to protect nuclear installations against tsunamis. Leading scientist M.S. Swaminathan has asked the DAE and the ministry of environment and …
As many as 46 per cent of the malnourished children of the world—of whom at least 75,000 die every month—are in India. Another alarming official statistic—36 per cent of Indians live on less than Rs 20 a day. One would think figures like this would act as a reality check …
The Food Security Bill, approved by a group of ministers this month, has ignored malnutrition as a subject, surprising many observers in UN bodies. The reason given is a turf war among different central ministries. According to N C Saxena, a member of the National Advisory Council that has opposed …
Chief minister (CM) Prithviraj Chavan emphasised the necessity of green revolution to meet the increasing demands of the country. Speaking at an event organised at the Shiv Chhatrapati sports complex, Balewadi, on Friday to felicitate 1,500 farmers of the state, Chauhan said that the emergence of globalisation, open market and …
It was in April-May 1968, that the country witnessed the wonderful spectacle of large arrivals of wheat grain in the mandis of Punjab like Moga and Khanna. Wheat production in the country rose to nearly 17 million tonnes that year, from the previous best harvest of 12 million tonnes. Indira …
