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 …
This exhaustive report by the Parliamentary standing committee on agriculture looks critically at various aspects of the impact of GM crops on health and environment & says that these were overlooked while giving a go-ahead for Bt Brinjal trials in India. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture tabled its exhaustive …
Chandigarh: Punjab farmers, who are watering their paddy crop on diesel-run motors because of a deficient monsoon and frequent power cuts, are in for more trouble. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast below normal rains in August and September which could result in a further increase in their inputs …
Traditional rice varieties of Kerala appeared to be vanishing as a study has found as many 55 species of paddy seeds extinct in Wayanad district in northern part of the state due to various reasons. Nearly 160 varieties of paddy varieties, including 78 traditional ones, were being cultivated in Waynad …
JAMMU, Jul 26: People Democratic Party (PDP) highlighted various problems being faced by the farming community of the State due to failure of the monsoons in the early months of June and July. The State is undergoing severe conditions of drought and now only 25% of the Kharif crops can …
Fatehabad: Very few farmers turned up to receive their cheques on the first day today after the authorities announced award to compensate farmers whose land has been acquired for the upcoming nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad. Out of over 1,505 acres of land acquired for the project, owners …
The country’s foodgrain output will touch an all-time high of 257.44 million tonnes in 2011-12, according to the Government’s latest estimates. This represents a 5.17 per cent growth over the final output of 244.78 mt in 2010-11. The fourth advance estimates, released on Tuesday, pegged the foodgrain output 5 mt …
Bhopal: Forest land patta holders will be made members of Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) for making crop loans available to them. Commissioner Cooperatives Shri P.C. Meena has issued directives to this effect to all the District Cooperative Central Banks in the state. The Commissioner Cooperatives said that it should …
CHANDIGARH, 6 JULY: Decrying the lack of proper sanitation facilities, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh today said toilets (in file photo) built over the past 10 years across the country are being used for storing food grain. “The toilets are not being used for the purpose for which they had …
Chandigarh: Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said Punjab could utilise only Rs 29 crore of the Rs 151 crore earmarked for the state to build rural toilets in the past 10 years. Clearly indicating that this was a case of mismanagement, Ramesh said instead of blaming someone else …
Palm oil was once touted as a social and environmental panacea — a sustainable food crop, a biofuel that could help to cut greenhouse-gas emissions and a route out of poverty for small-scale farmers. In recent years, however, a growing body of research has questioned those credentials, presenting evidence that …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Tuesday approved a Food Ministry proposal to export two million tonnes of wheat from its buffer stock in an attempt to ease the storage crisis. The clearance came despite objections by the Department of Expenditure, which felt the proposal would involve an …
With over 30 per cent rainfall deficit across the country a month after the monsoon, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday admitted the position was not “fully satisfactory”, but allayed fears saying that it was not “too serious” either and pinned his hopes on the revival of the monsoon in …
Says saline water from south-west Punjab may travel to other areas Chandigarh: Waterlogging in south-west Punjab could jeopardise food grain production with an expert group led by Planning Commission member Mihir Shah claiming that saline water from waterlogged areas could travel to central parts of the state through continuous aquifers. …
You’d think that a documentary titled Life Apps: India’s Software Heroes would be about geeks. It is, and more. “The plight of farmers in India drew me to this subject,” says director Arjun Pandey, about his latest film that was screened in Delhi on Friday. Shot in Delhi and rural …
Fazilka: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal chose to launch the “Green Punjab Mission” from Fazilka today as the district has a mere 1 per cent forest area against the recommended 33 per cent. Accompanied by Forest Minister Surjit Kumar Jyani, the Chief Minister launched the mission by planting a sapling …
The recurrent global food price spikes in 2008 and 2010 rekindled interest in the use of national foodgrain stockpiles (“stocks”) to enhance food security. They were a commonly used instrument in government responses to these food prices spikes. They were also widely considered as a useful tool after the 1974 …
The North Eastern states will get Rs 100 crore this year from the Agriculture Ministry to promote cultivation of rice under the National Food Security Mission (NFSM). All eight NE States, including Sikkim, are being covered under NFSM for cultivation of rice this year. Till last year, only Assam was …
Fatehabad: Standing crops on hundreds of acres of agriculture land were submerged under water due to a breach - third in the past one month - in the Munshiwala Minor near Shehnal and Hamzapur villages here today. Officials of the Irrigation Department have been trying to plug the breach with …
New Delhi:Residents in many colonies may be struggling for their daily share of water, but so severe is the crisis in the agricultural belt of the capital — Najafgarh — that farmers have been forced to sell their lands and change crop patterns. Officials at the sub-registrar’s office in Najafgarh …
Moga: Paddy worth crores of rupees stored by state procurement agencies is reportedly missing from Punjab’s rice mills, thanks to lack of an effective policy, lacklustre attitude of officials and political patronage enjoyed by the rice millers. The orders of Justice Paramjeet Singh of the Punjab and Haryana High court …
