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 …
Indian Agriculture Research Institute has developed four hybrid mango varieties which promise a yield three-four times higher than the existing varieties. This is likely to scale up mango production in the next 10 years without any additional input cost. The varieties named Pusa Pratibha, Pusa Peetamber, Pusa Shreshth and Pusa …
At the tip of the 30-mile-long peninsula that hosts one of the busiest ports in the world, Finland's Neste Oil has just finished converting a plot of land reclaimed from the sea into the biggest biodiesel refinery in Europe. The €670 million ($850 million) investment by the state-controlled company in …
Crop models demonstrate that food production is vulnerable to climate change in many regions through a combination of temperature change, water stress and extreme weather. Although there is considerable uncertainty in these models, and some debate way that ozone pollution, carbon dioxide fertilization, and water shortages may interact with climate …
South Asia is arguably the most vulnerable region to increasing food inflation given the large segment of the population living below or near the poverty line. This paper deals with the problems related to food price inflation in South Asia in a comprehensive manner. An in-depth empirical analysis of the …
The NSS consumer expenditure survey (CES) aims at generating estimates of average household monthly per capita consumer expenditure (MPCE), its distribution over households and persons, and its break-up by commodity group, at national and State/UT level, and for different socio-economic groups. These indicators are amongst the most important measures of …
If the Consumer Affairs Ministry had its say, imported food grains and pulses containing hazardous foreign matter would have made its way on to the Indian platter. In fact, import of damaged grains too would have been a possibility - on the pretext of the country witnessing inadequate food grains’ …
Extreme heat can cause wheat crops to age faster and reduce yields, a U.S.-led study shows, underscoring the challenge of feeding a rapidly growing population as the world warms. Scientists and farmers have long known that high heat can hurt some crops and the Stanford University-led study, released on Monday, …
The MP Farmer Welfare and Agricultural Department is carrying out survey of hail and frost-affected areas; decision on compensation and relief work will be taken according to the survey report. The untimely rain and hail frost has adversely affected six districts of the State in the first week of January. …
Post-harvest loan to be offered at 7% for using warehouses The finance ministry has launched a concessional loan scheme for farmers to prevent distress sale of agricultural produce. Farmers who park their produce at warehouses will be able to avail short-term post harvest loan at 7% as against the prevailing …
This paper attempts to project the future supply and demand up to the year 2025 for rice and wheat, the two main cereals cultivated and consumed in India. A review of studies that forecast the supply and demand of Indian agriculture commodities revealed three important limitations of such studies: The …
KOLKATA, 26 DEC: The chief minister, Miss Mamata Banerjee, will write to the Prime Minister requesting him to release the support price for procuring rice from the farmers of Bengal. Following complaints from Congress and CPI-M leaders that the paddy farmers are not getting adequate support price for their harvest, …
Standing wheat crop has come under termite attack in several districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where rainwater is used for irrigation purposes, according to officials of Directorate of Agriculture Extension. The attack was feared to attain serious proportions, said a senior official, in case the ongoing dry spell in the province …
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations estimates that Pakistan’s rice production is expected to be around 9.7 million tons this year despite devastations caused by floods and heavy rains in major parts of the country. Despite floods, damage to paddy crop has been moderate and national paddy …
New Delhi: The government on Thursday extended the interest subsidy on loans for farmers, a move which comes ahead of the polls in key states such as Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. The move is expected to cost the government Rs 8,649 crore every year, sources said. The government had announced …
– India's federal cabinet Sunday approved a draft law on food security aimed at providing low-priced staples -- mainly rice and wheat -- to roughly two-thirds of the country's 1.2 billion people. "The Cabinet has decided to introduce the [draft law] in the ongoing winter session of the Parliament," Food …
As it stands, the food security plan is flawed and can have a negative impact The proposed right to food Bill may have some serious consequences. It aims to provide rice at Rs 3, wheat at Rs 2 and coarse grains at Rs 1 per kg. Each person in the …
Ten districts of Arunachal Pradesh are reeling under an acute shortage of foodgrain for the past two months as the Food Corporation of India (FCI) has failed to transport grain since September. Chief Minister Nabam Tuki is planning to meet Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to press for Central intervention in …
Farmers in Assam, who have traditionally remained content with a single crop per year, now have reasons to go for two or more crops beginning the current rabi season. The state Agriculture department has launched Mission Double Cropping, with the target being fixed at covering about 2.09 lakh hectares of …
The Punjab government on Thursday recommended to the Centre that multi-crop irrigated land should not be acquired under the proposed national land acquisition policy. While differing with the central proposal on several counts, it also recommended that rehabilitation and resettlement be applicable only to those persons whose livelihood was dependent …
The National Academy of Agricultural Sciences has come out with the latest policy paper on Biosafety Assurance for GM Food Crops in India that contains science-based recommendations and concrete actions for safe, inclusive and judicious harnessing of GM technologies for accelerated and sustained crop production. The NAAS policy paper critically …
