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 …
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Government on Tuesday decided to advance by five days the paddy transplantation season in the State because of the likelihood of an early monsoon. Now the season will start on June 10 instead of June 15, said Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda after chairing a meeting of …
The experiments were conducted at the farmer's fields in a cluster of villages of Chugawan block of Amritsar district during summer and winter seasons of 2006-07 to evaluate recommended dose of urea, plant population and lopping for basmati rice and zero tillage for wheat vis-a-vis farmers' practices. The results indicated …
One of the first volumes of what was then known as the ILEIA Newsletter described how farmers in Rwanda were working with new ideas and approaches to rice production, including some used by Asian farmers. Michael Loevinsohn showed how farmers, through their experimentation, had managed to cultivate rice at altitudes …
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Rice has different gastronomical connotations to different people. It could mean the aromatic biryani or Sambhar-rice or simply dal-chawal. Rice is also top priority of GM pushers and farmers and activists are doing whatever it takes to keep them at bay. After rounds of protests, petitions and public awareness it …
Soil salinity and falling global prices push farmers to agriculture An increasing number of shrimp farmers in Bangladesh are going back to paddy farming. They don
Rs 3/kg Grain May Not Be Boon To All Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI ON THE back of a 19% higher rice procurement this season (288.18 lakh tonnes up to May 18) and a record wheat buy (over 221 lakh tonnes), the food ministry is actively exploring hiking the quantum of …
Direct Seeded Rice, on which successful experiments were carried out in UP last season, is ready for large-scale cultivation GG OOD NEWS for growers who were contemplating giving up rice cultivation largely due to non-availability of labourers and scarcity of water. The Direct Seeded Rice (DSR), whose successful experiments were …
BHUBANESWAR: Two new rice varieties - Swarna Sub-1 and IR.64 Sub-1 - developed by International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines, combining high-yield potential with high degree of tolerance to submergence, have proved as a boon for flood-prone area farmers of South Asia, including Orissa. Talking to this paper, Jafran Keshari …
AIZAWL, May 17: Food scarcity has hit Mizoram as rice, the staple food of the state, could not be transported through trains due to militancy in neighbouring Asom, official sources said here.They said that train services in Asom were disrupted following recent attacks on trains by suspected Dimasa rebels on …
BHUBANESWAR: After the controversy involving the Bt cotton and Bt brinjal across the State, now it is the turn of Bt rice. However, while a group of activists have opposed its field trials and use, many have termed it as the
Sri Lanka had advised its farmers in the Mahaweli zones to cultivate only 50 percent of their paddy lands in this season due to lack of water in the major reservoirs as drought conditions continue to prevail. The Sri Lanka Agriculture Ministry has issued this instruction through the Farmer Organizations …
Agriculture sector of the country is incurring huge post harvest loss amounting to Taka 30,000 crore annually due to unplanned and haphazard collection and preservation of at least 15 food grains. On an average 17 percent of total production of the food grains suffer loss and due to this, the …
The Indo-Gangetic Alluvial Plains (IGP) is among the most extensive fluvial plains of the world and cover several states of the northern, central and eastern parts of India. The IGP occupies a total area of approximately 43.7 m ha and represent eight agro-ecological regions (AER) and 14 agro-ecological subregions. The …
Rehabilitation of seven major Irrigation projects at a cost of Rs. 1,800 million launched by re-awakening project under the Nation Building and Estate Infrastructure Development Ministry with World Bank assistance is in progress, Project Director P.H. Sugathadasa said. He said the project has underken rehabilitation of seven major irrigation projects …
Seed business is thriving in the country backed by a number of corporate biggies who came up to grab a slice of around Tk 1,000 crore market for hybrid and high-yield seeds. In the recent years more than half a dozen conglomerates such as Ispahani, Energypac, Square, Paragon, Getco and …
A New number of Boro paddy fields were affected by brown grasshopper at Chinidanga Beel at Baraigram upazila in Natore. A new method is being applied to kill the insects. Md. Mamunur Rashid, Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) and S.M. Quamruzzaman told to kill the insects, about one hand distance in …
