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 …
Farmers have started switching to cereals from paddy in the wake of adverse impact of climate change with new technology and seed in the vast Barind tract. According to the agriculture officials and scientists, the farmers reduced the cultivation of irrigation-dependent crop especially irri- boro paddy in the Barind tract, …
Advances in agricultural development have largely been a direct result of increased usage of new technologies. Among other important factors, farmers’ perceptions of risks associated with the new technology as well as their ability or willingness to take risks greatly influences their adoption decisions. In this paper we conduct a …
The world’s population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050. Climate change, population, and income growth will drive food demand in the coming decades. Baseline scenarios show food prices for maize, rice, and wheat would significantly increase between 2005 and 2050, and the number of people at risk of …
It is essential to introduce genetically high-bred seed paddy that ensures higher crop harvest among the Galle district paddy farmers and if not they would discontinue paddy cultivation, Galle Deputy Agriculture Director Senani de Silva said. He was making a presentation on the contemporary issues on the district’s paddy cultivation …
NETRAKONA : Farmers harvested a bumper Crop of transplanted Aman (T-Aman) here in the last Aman season following favorable climate condition and joint efforts of farmers and the concerned officials, reports BSS. District Agriculture Extension Department (DAED) office sources said, over 3, 53 lakhs metric tons of Aman were produced …
Recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's "Summary for Policymakers" make for alarming reading about the global warming phenomenon. How bad climate impacts will be beyond the mid-century depends crucially on the world urgently shifting to a development trajectory that is clean, sustainable, and equitable, a notion of …
Following three years of research, National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) has identified core genes which would help in development of new varieties of wheat, rice and vegetables which would withstand climatic variations. These varieties, identified from the four lakh accessions held with NBPGR or the national gene bank, …
This paper aims to review the major food security issues in Bangladesh, with a brief reference to its past trend in agricultural output, constraints and challenges in the coming decades. Food security relates directly to nutrition and health of a population which consequently influences a nation's socio-economic status.
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease that affects the villi of the small intestine causing abdominal pain, gas, diarrhea, or bad absorption due to gluten intolerance. The only treatment for this disease consists of a lifelong gluten free diet; this is, celiac people cannot consume products containing gluten, such as …
The National Census of Agriculture 2012 has revealed that about 128,000 hectares of fertile land in the country is uncultivated. The census was made public by the Secretary at the National Planning Commission Yuba Raj Bhusal at a program in Kathmandu on Tuesday. According to the census report, the cereal …
New Delhi : With wide variations in climatic conditions becoming a frequent phenomenon, the agriculture ministry has projected a decline in yield of crops such as rice, wheat, maize and sorghum. However, it expects output of soybean, groundnut and potato to rise by 2030 and beyond. Under the ‘National Initiative …
Nobel laureate Venkataraman ‘Venki’ Ramakrishnan on Monday came down heavily on those opposed to genetic modification of agricultural crops. In an exclusive interview to The Hindu , he said there was definitely a need to be careful while dealing with GM crops with proper regulatory mechanism, but one should not …
The Punjab Seed Council (PSC) approved 39 new verities of different crops for cultivation including 15 Bt cotton, 6 rice, 2 wheat, 1 sugarcane, 2 gram, 3 citrus, 4 peach, 3 flowers and 1 variety of each potato, tomato and turnip. A spokesman of the department said on Monday that …
This will further inflate the Centre's subsidy calculation on account of the new law, once it is implemented Congress workers celebrate the victory The central government has decided to widen the acceptability of its biggest social security initiative, the National Food Security Act, by agreeing to equally share the financial …
The Punjab Seed Council has approved 39 new verities of different crops for general cultivation. The new varieties included 15 Bt Cotton, six rice, two wheat, one Sugarcane, two Gram, three Citrus, four Peach, three flowers and one variety of each potato, tomato and turnip. The approval was granted in …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Lokmangal Sanstha Vs Sanjay Wadettiwar dated 11/12/2013 regarding construction of Sai Rice Mill in the proximity of Lokmangal Sanstha, Chamorshi, district Gadchiroli, Maharashtra. Original Source: http://www.greentribunal.gov.in/judgment/22_2013(App)(WZ)_11Dec2013_final_order.pdf
New Delhi : In a bid to shift a chunk of area under water-intensive paddy cultivation in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh to maize, oilseeds and poplar-based agroforestry, the government has allocated more than R450 crore in the current fiscal for their promotion. Sources told FE that agriculture ministry …
IN AUGUST environmentalists in the Philippines vandalised a field of Golden Rice, an experimental grain whose genes had been modified to carry beta-carotene, a chemical precursor of vitamin A. Golden Rice is not produced by a corporate behemoth but by the public sector. Its seeds will be handed out free …
Rajbir Singh of Khadri village never thought that the pesticide got free from the Agriculture Department would not work to save his rice crop from weeds and he would have to plant the crop again. For crop failure, he had to face not only disappointment, but also spend thousands extra …
Scientists have discovered a wonder rice gene that could dramatically increase yields of one of the world’s most important food crops, the Philippines-based International Rice Research Institute (Irri) said yesterday. Preliminary tests show that yields of modern long-grain “indica” rice varieties, the world’s most widely-grown types of rice, can rise …
