The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
In an effort to wean away tribals from the Maoists, the Environment Ministry is pushing for a minimum support price for minor forest produce like bamboo and tendu patta. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is taking up the matter with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. A minimum support price (MSP) for minor …
The State forest department and 12,000 van panchyats comprising over one lakh manpower will jointly control the wild fires in this season. Though the forest department has already been using high-tech satellite services and state -of-the-art risk assessment danger rating system to contain the forest fires and van panchayat employees …
New Delhi: The environment and forests ministry took half a step towards ending the monopoly of the forest department over the Rs 10,000 crore annual bamboo trade in the country. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh wrote to chief ministers of all states to alter their rules and instruct the state forest …
The department of Forest, Environment and Ecology has passed an order to hand over 6,300 tonne bamboo which have flowered and dried in the Kodagu forest to the Karnataka State Forest Industries Corporation Limited as a precautionary measure to avoid forest fire and also to increase the income of the …
The State Department of Forests is planning to permit private companies to grow forest produce such as rubber, eucalyptus, bamboo, reed, cane and tamarind on its land across the State. Forest Minister C H Vijayashankar told reporters here on Wednesday that the department will take a major portion of about …
Rubber prices are on track for successive record highs as robust Asian economies led by China step up purchases, prompting producing countries to expand plantations to capitalise on the insatiable demand. Traders, policy makers and investors head to a rubber conference in Cambodia from Monday at a critical time when …
Mahesh Kulkarni / Gubbi (tumkur District) February 15, 2011, 0:56 IST Farmers in Tumkur district convert coconut husk into value-added products About 15,000 coconut farmers in eastern Karnataka
The Maharashtra coast may lose a critically endangered species of mangrove, Xylocarpus granatum, warned two researchers, who have called for greater awareness of the issue among citizens. Associate professor at Islampur-based Karmavir Bhaurao Patil College, MV Gokhale, and a research fellow at the botany department of Shivaji University, Sajid Sheikh, …
THE Union government is reviewing its landmark initiative, the Forest Rights Act, four years after enacting it. The aim is to find how to strengthen the law which was legislated to ensure the traditional rights of 100 million forest dwelling people in the country. Two high-level groups submitted their assessment …
Karnataka has banned cultivation of eucalyptus in malnad (hill area) and semi-malnad areas. Malnad areas constitute districts of Shimoga, Chikmaglur, Hassan, Uttara Kannada and Kodagu districts covering forests of western and eastern slopes of the Western Ghats since it poses a danger to soil fertility. According to a notification issued …
LUCKNOW: Charcoal making units will now come under the strict monitoring of the state. The new set of rules makes it mandatory to obtain a licence to set up a furnace. This will not only keep a tab on the illegal units, but also check illegal consumption of timber. The …
V S Achutananthan, Kerala Chief MinisterKerala is split when it comes to the genetically modified. While the government has consistently taken a position against anything GM, and has vowed to keep the state GM-free as a matter of policy, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which rules the state, has …
With an annual turnover of over Rs 760 crores in 2010, rubber cultivation in the Northeastern States has emerged a major player in the economy of the region. By the end of the XIIth Plan in 2016-17, an additional 60,000 hectares of land will be brought under rubber cultivation giving …
LUCKNOW: In a bid to promote bamboo cultivation and its usage, the state forest department along with the national bamboo mission would hold a workshop here on January 10. Currently, in India, there are 1,275 varieties of bamboo. The national bamboo mission is to be implemented in 20 districts of …
This study examines whether the forest conservation measures implemented as part of the National Forest Policy are the limiting factors in the supply of timber in India. Says that domestic production of timber can be increased substantially if the opportunities & policy options are effectively utilised by the forest based …
Though a significant volume of information has been documented on the importance and potential of NTFPs’ utilisation and its impacts on poverty reduction, livelihoods improvement and environmental sustainability, a lot of confusion is still associated with NTFPs semantics and terminologies. NTFPs have proved to be difficult to clearly define because …
Identifying human activities which influence degradation of catchment forests offers input/solutions for its management to the benefit of communities who depend on resources from the forest. Data were collected in 4 villages using questionnaire, in-depth interviews and focused group discussions. Results revealed that the main human activities disturbing Meru forest …
