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 …
Lucknow: Sitaram Yadav, a farmer based in Gohta village of Mau district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, gives a thumbs up to the flood-tolerant Swarna Sub-1 rice variety.
The government will procure rice direct from the farmers to provide them price support and protect them from any possible loss for market slump after new arrival of harvests. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unveiled the plan while addressing the officials of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry at Bangladesh Secretariat …
The government will procure rice direct from the farmers to provide them price support and protect them from any possible loss for market slump after new harvests. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unveiled the plan while addressing the officials of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry at Bangladesh Secretariat yesterday.
Rice-wheat cropping system is most popular among the farmers in eastern Indo-Gangetic plains of India. The adoption of reduced and zero tillage seed drill of rice and wheat can improve the timeliness of sowing and help farmers. Keeping this in view ZTSD (Zero tillage seed drill) was introduced by KVK's …
BHUBANESWAR: Climate change will not only have a single manifestation of rapid and unpredictable temperature rise, but also has tremendous impact on agriculture
When the tsunami struck the coast of Tamil Nadu four years ago, the village of Poompuhar in Sirkali taluk of Nagapattinam district as one of the worst affected. When the waves withdrew, more than death stalked the coastline. With livelihoods and homes gone, Nagapattinam was a land of the living …
Madhya Pradesh is facing its worst-ever water crisis, which has hit water-based industries, particularly poha (rice-flakes) and rice de-husking millers of Ujjain town. Made from flattened rice, poha is easy to cook, nutritious, and is consumed all over India, for breakfast or brunch, or as a snack. As many as …
The early variety Boro paddy fields have already started blooming and the others are growing well predicting an all- time record bumper Boro production in the country's northern region this season. Farmers of the region have brought eight percent more land than the fixed target under Boro farming this year …
Crisis of foodgrains storage Sarbjit Dhaliwal Tribune News Service Jalandhar, March 26 As rice storage crisis has deepened in Punjab, rice millers , who have halted paddy shelling,, have urged the Union government to lift ban on the export of non-basmati rice. Most of the millers today tried to meet …
Sindh government on Wednesday announced that Passco would purchase one million tons rain-affected rice from growers and use it as animal feed. The provincial government also announced to waive the recovery of land revenue and "Abiana" from the calamity-hit growers, who had 70 percent of their standing paddy crop destroyed …
In 2008, Six States Saw Parties Promising, Or Govts Giving, Subsidized Grain To Poor Do promises of hugely subsidised rice for the poor prove a gamechanger in elections? This a question that stares us in the face as parties queue up to shower rice on the voter. This is certainly …
Main opposition party, that till recently maintained that economic populism is anti-welfare, is going all out on populist announcements in its manifesto SAFFRON PARTY GOES AN EXTRA STEP TO DENT CONGRESS
New Delhi: If the Congress wins the election and implement its promise to give rice at Rs 3 per kg to below poverty line (BPL) families, the exchequer will have to bear an additional burden of around Rs 5,700 crore. The total subsidy on giving rice at concessional rate of …
The Congress manifesto, which was jointly released by party president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh here on Tuesday, has asked people to vote for the party promising stability, security and prosperity for all. Claiming that the Congress says what it means and means what its says, the manifesto …
Small and marginal farmers in rice growing pockets can improve their livelihoods profile by practicing System of Rice Intensification, which can efficiently address food security issue. This was stated by the Principal Secretary Rural Development Shri. I. S. Dani while addressing a state workshop on System of Rice Intensification organized …
Pakistan wants to benefit in the field of agriculture and particularly in enhancing rice production by employing Hybrid rice technology developed by an expert from Hunan province, said Pakistans Ambassador to China, Masood Khan. Pakistan largely benefited from the Hybrid rice seeds developed by Professor Yuan Long Ping, who is …
Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) last year invented four new varieties of rice -- BRRI Dhan-48, BRRI Dhan-49, BRRI Dhan-50 (Bangla Moti) and BRRI Hybrid Dhan-2. With these the number of rice varieties invented by the organisation stood at 51, scientists at the BRRI informed. Scientists said BRRI-48 is medium …
