CEOs need to accelerate their action plans to safeguard the production of commodities critical to the global population and economy as heat stress and drought risk rise around the world, according to PwC's report, Climate Risks to Nine Key Commodities: Protecting People and Prosperity, published. The report, which analysed nine …
Blame El Niño. The weather phenomenon is causing havoc for US rice farmers and a sharp price spike in the world’s most important staple food may foreshadow possibly higher prices in Asia in the coming months. While other commodities have hit recent lows, US rice futures prices are up nearly …
Zinc (Zn) deficiency is the most widespread micronutrient deficiency in crop plants and humans. Low intake of Zn through diet appears to be the major reason for the widespread prevalence of Zn deficiencies in human populations. Application of Zn fertilizer in soil having low Zn increased the grain yield in …
It’s much more, say farmer leaders | Water still stuck in low-lying areas The heavy shower that lashed the region on Tuesday has damaged basmati and paddy crop in about 1,000 acres in the district, said officials of the Agriculture Department here today after taking stock of the losses suffered …
KOLKATA: Organic vegetables at just 50 paise a kg: This may sound incredible at a time when veggies are burning a hole in the pocket but a Birbhum firm apparently has the key to it. The firm, which has set up a terrace garden in New Town, is ready to …
Climate-resilient technologies will be demonstrated at a two-day agricultural technology meet to be held at the Rice Research Station at Mancompu from September 17. The programme is being organised by Kayamkulam-based Krishi Vignan Kendra of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. The kendra has been engaged in efforts to improve …
Drought stress is a serious constraint, especially in rainfed rice production, and breeding for drought tolerance by selection based on yield under stress, though effective, is slow. Mapping quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for yield and its components under drought stress predominant in rainfed target populations of environment (TPE) will help …
COIMBATORE: The Indian Rice Research Institute, Hyderabad, has awarded a farmer from Dharapuram for adopting drip irrigation system in rice cultivation, thereby reducing water consumption by 60%. Parthasarathy M, 69, received the Innovative Rice Farmer Award on August 29. In all, 30 farmers from sixteen states were nominated for this …
A new study has suggested that use of ozone-tolerant cultivars can enhance the food security of India. University of Eastern study highlighted the current status of ozone research in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP), which have been classified as a "hot spot" for air pollution, that is agriculturally important and densely …
A remarkable feature of nanobubbles (<10–6 m in diameter) is their long lifetime in water. Supplying oxygen-nanobubbles (NBs) to continuously flooded paddy soil may retard the development of reductive conditions, thereby reducing the emission of methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas, and dissolution of arsenic, an environmental load. We tested …
Several traditional rice varieties are considered in folk medicine to have high nutritive and therapeutic value. Some of these land races are known in indigenous cultures to cure anaemia in women during and after pregnancy9 , and many of them (e.g. Kalabhat, Navara, Norungan, etc.) are now known to contain …
It's been about three weeks since a fresh crop of rice was planted in the famous fields of Maletha. By October, the rice will be ready. And this harvest, say the villagers, will be the sweetest they have tasted in a long while. After all, it was in these very …
A genetically modified strain of rice may be good for the environment. Scientists have developed a new GMO that produces far less methane than traditional rice, which could help curb the amount of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere. The new rice was engineered by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. …
Surveillance of the extracellular environment by immune receptors is of central importance to eukaryotic survival. The rice receptor kinase XA21, which confers robust resistance to most strains of the Gram-negative bacterium Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), is representative of a large class of cell surface immune receptors in plants and …
FUZHOU - Scientists from China, Sweden and the United States have developed a high-yielding rice that can reduce methane emissions, a major greenhouse gas blamed for global warming, from paddies. By inserting a barley gene into rice, Sun Chuanxin and his colleagues created SUSIBA2 Rice, which stores more starch in …
A novel way of cooking rice to maximize the removal of the carcinogen inorganic arsenic (Asi) is presented here. In conventional rice cooking water and grain are in continuous contact, and it is known that the larger the water:rice cooking ratio, the more Asi removed by cooking, suggesting that the …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Public Distribution System, 21/07/2015. TPDS is operated under the joint responsibility of the Central and the State/Union Territory (UT) Governments wherein the operational responsibilities for implementation of TPDS within the State/UT rest with the State/UT Governments concerned. There have been complaints about irregularities including …
The state food and supplies department will take strong action against ration dealers in case they violate the National Food Security Act, Jyotipriya Mallick, the state minister for food and supplies said on Wednesday. Mallick said that if any ration dealer shorts any beneficiary of the quantity of PDS foodgrain …
New official data show that the proportion of Indian households using the Public Distribution System has nearly doubled over seven years. These households are relying more on the PDS and less on open market sources than before. The National Sample Survey Organisation’s report on the ‘Public Distribution System and Other …
Yamunanagar, June 16: Deputy Director Agriculture, Yamunanagar, today issued notices to 61 farmers of the district, who transplanted saathi dhaan variety of paddy, for violating the Haryana Preservation of Sub-Soil Water Act, 2009. The Act restricts farmers to sow nursery of paddy before May 15 and to transplant paddy before …
A rice glut that sent prices slumping more than a year ago is shrinking, just as El Nino arrives to parch paddies across Asia. Global inventories were already heading for an eight-year low, including stockpiles so spoiled that top exporter Thailand may sell most for industrial use. Now, the first …
