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 …
The recommendations of Soil Resource Development Institute (SRDI) for balanced use of fertiliser would help increase average yield of rice by 20-25 percent and other crops by 10-15 percent, said a study of soil scientists. The study, conducted by the SRDI in 20 districts during the Boro season in 2008-09, …
The adverse impact of a deficient monsoon over kharif crop appears to be growing with the sowing of paddy lagging behind by over 65 lakh hectares as compared to the last year. This has forced Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to acknowledge the prospects of a
Rice output is expected to miss a target of 6 million tonnes in the 2009/10 financial year, but it will still have 3.8 million tonnes in exportable surplus, an industry official said on Thursday. Pakistan, the world's fifth-largest rice exporter, harvested an estimated 6.9 million tonnes of rice from the …
Scientists are trying to protect a traditional rice variety that is on the verge of extinction in Himachal Pradesh. The red rice is more disease-resistant and hardier than strains cultivated commercially over most of India and can lend that through cross-breeding. Rice grown in Himachal Pradesh. Inset: a preparation of …
Minister for Food and Agriculture Nazar Muhammad Gondal informed the Senate on Wednesday that the National Agriculture Research System has developed 34 high yield and disease resistant varieties of various crops. Replying to questions in the House, he said tea production technology has been standardised and demonstrated at farmers' field …
Vinay Kumar NEW DELHI: Though deficiency in rainfall in the country was down to -19 per cent on July 22 from -54 per cent on June 24, Minster of Agriculture Sharad Pawar on Tuesday admitted that sowing of paddy had been adversely affected in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. …
The government is pushing ahead with its 'aam aadmi' campaign with the President I promising a National Food Security Act. Providing food to the poor is inherent to effectively combating poverty and, therefore, I feel the intention of the government is laudable. However, there are some basic questions that need …
R Krishna Das / Raipur July 24, 2009, 1:29 IST Rakesh, a youth from Banrasi village in Chhattisgarh, is eager to marry and a trifle annoyed that his father, Tulsidas, has been putting it off. Tulsidas, a daily wage earner living below the poverty line (BPL), does not want to …
Genetic modification may be the only viable way to produce sufficient quantities of rice in the future as drought, climate change and dwindling acreage impact yields, experts said in a new report. The main challenge facing producers is how to raise yields of the water-dependent crop as 70% of the …
Scanty rainfall is likely to hit rice production in the State. In Upper Brahmaputra Valley zone, the famous rice belt around Titabor and adjoining areas is worst hit by the problem. According to available data, there is nearly 24.43 lakh hectare rice production area in the State, of which 17.14 …
A decision support system for canal water releases (CWREDSS) was developed to provide demand-based optimal canal water releases for reducing the gap between canal supplies and demands for increasing the water-use efficiency in canal command areas. The developed decision support system (DSS) was evaluated under different situations of the command …
A field experiment was conducted to know the effect of rice sowing and transplanting methods as well as nutrient management through 12 treatments were assessed during kharif 2004 at Crop Research Centre, Pantnagar. The maximum methane flux was recorded in 100% NPK + straw + manual transplanting practice (7.70 mg …
BHUBANESWAR: Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution Sharad Pawar today advised the State Government to take steps to stop production of parboiled rice from next year as it is not beneficial to Orissa. Addressing the State convention of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) here, Pawar said that he had discussed …
July 3: The government on Friday said there had been a record procurement of rice (30 million tonnes) this year, "a record in 50 years", even as it indicated that it might shift the pattern of sowing of certain crops depending on the monsoon. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Union …
Punjab Finance Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has said that Pakistan and China are working on development of a new rice seed variety having more per acre yield and resistance against diseases. 'Production achieved from this new rice seed would be exported to Iran and in return Pakistan would get oil …
Punjab Finance Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has said that Pakistan and China are working on development of a new rice seed variety having more per acre yield and resistance against diseases. 'Production achieved from this new rice seed would be exported to Iran and in return Pakistan would get oil …
Dr Muhammad Rashid, Director General Agricultural (Research) asked agricultural scientists to develop new technology to increase water-use efficiency. He stated this while addressing a seminar on Research Activities and the Achievements of the Agronomic Research Institute, Faisalabad. He said that water was the most precious resource, so it should be …
