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 study discusses the trends and patterns in agricultural growth at the national and sub-national levels in India. Data on important variables like area, production, input use and value of output were compiled for the period 1967-68 to 2007-08 from various published sources. The analysis of data reveals that the …
The Punjab Government has urged the Centre to provide financial and technical support to the state for scientific storage of foodgrain to be distributed under the proposed Food Security Act. The proposed Food Security Bill is likely to be passed in the current winter session of Parliament. On the proposed …
A pilot study was conducted to assess the economic impact of weather forecast-based advisories issued to 15 of the 127 Agrometeorological Advisory Service (AAS) units of the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. Six seasons comprising three Kharif (summer) and three Rabi (winter) during 2003–2007 were chosen. The major …
Up to three million people in Afghanistan are facing hunger, malnutrition and disease after a severe drought wiped out their crops and extreme winter weather risks cutting off their access to vital food aid, a group of aid agencies warned Friday. Poor rains earlier this year destroyed 80 percent of …
Climate Change Of late, farmer Rinchen of Semtokha is seeing some strange behaviour in her garden. When trees in her garden at this time of the year shed leaves, a few apple trees have flowered again; and a plum tree is bearing fruit for the second time. The banana plants …
Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday asked the district collectors to take necessary steps to prevent possible distress sale of paddy and ensure official support price to farmers during the 2011-12 procurement season. Reviewing the progress of procurement of rice through videoconferencing at the State Secretariat here, he asked …
BHUBANESWAR: At a time when traditional varieties of paddy are fast disappearing due to institutional promotion of high yielding varieties, the State Government chipped in to protect the rights of farmers over 760 rice species. The Agriculture Department had sent samples of the 760 varieties of paddy for registration with …
With the yield of rabi and kharif crops remaining stagnant for the past four years, there is a need for new variety of seeds to improve farming practices or for some seed treatment, experts told a farmers training cam here. “Wheat production was 164 lakh tonne last year but this …
BHUBANESWAR: In another step towards food security in the state, Odisha has been included in International programme for Roots and Tuber Crops (RTC), initiated by International Potato Centre (known by its Spanish acronym CIP). The project seeks to achieve food security on sustained basis through scientific research on potato, sweet …
Bhopal : A Geo-Special Fair is being organized in the capital from November 06th till November 11th under the joint direction of Indian Society of Remote Sensing and Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology. In this fair, Astrophysical experts from all over the country will show up. General Director …
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 …
The Maharashtra agriculture department plans to set up tehsil-level weather monitoring centres to give farmers area-specific advisories that will help them determine the crop pattern and anticipate pest and disease outbreaks. The centres are being set up in the public-private partnership mode under which the companies participating will use the …
Indian National Lok Dal secretary-general and MLA Ajay Singh Chautala on Tuesday flayed the Congress regimes at the Centre and in Haryana for “failing on all fronts”, especially so far as the interests of farmers are concerned. Talking to media persons here on Haryana Day, Mr. Chautala, who recently lost …
KOLKATA, 31 OCT: The state finance department today sanctioned Rs 285 crore for procurement of 20 lakh metric ton of rice. The state government will buy rice directly from farmers and will pay a “support price'' of Rs 1,080 per quintal as per Centre's instruction, said state food and supplies …
Thailand may lose a quarter of its main rice crop in the nation’s worst flooding in decades, the government estimates, which could boost prices of the staple and further squeeze shipments from the world’s top exporter. The flood damage to rice comes at a time when Thailand, which accounts for …
KOLKATA, 23 OCT: At a time when the common people are facing immense hardship owing to rapidly rising prices of essential commodities, a new project to be taken up by the state irrigation department may bring a smile to their face, albeit a few years from now. Production of major …
Fatehabad: Despite a ban, farmers have been burning paddy straw on their fields with impunity after harvesting their crops. Smoke emanating from the burning paddy fields is leading to environment pollution. Thick dark clouds of smoke can be seen in the clear blue sky pointing towards the gravity of situation. …
Foodgrain production in Mizoram has increased by 30 per cent this year. A source from the Mizoram agriculture department said that buoyed by the considerable improvement in the production of foodgrains, the Mizoram government has underlined the need for tapping the potentials. The source also said that the Vision 2020 …
In another step towards food security, Odisha has been included in the international programme for Roots & Tuber Crops (RTC) initiated by the International Potato Centre (known by its Spanish acronym CIP). A two-day project planning meeting of the programme was inaugurated by chief secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik here on …
Faced with the potential use of a dangerous pesticide methyl iodide to spray crops in their backyards, a group of Californian teenagers decided to stand up to the might of industrial agribusiness. Rosie Spinks reports It's a short walk - about five or six steps - from the neat and …
