Globally 30 percent of the food produced never reaches to a human stomach (FAO, 2021). Tackling food loss and waste benefits the climate, food security, and sustainability of agri-food systems. India suffers a food loss of about Rs. 1.53 lakh crores (USD 18.5 billion) every year as per the latest …
The assurance of a high yield as compared to the traditional basmati varieties has seen a manifold rise in the area under PUSA 1121 in Punjab and Haryana. As a result, a bumper basmati crop is expected this year. The area under PUSA 1121 has risen sharply this year. In …
A senior farmers' leader and former Agriculture Minister, Mr Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao, has asked the ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research) to ban research on genetically modified (GM) paddy. GM in paddy might impact business prospects for Indian rice in global markets. Voicing concern that GM paddy traits could contaminate …
As India celebrates two decades of economic reform, agriculture remains a laggard despite its potential July is a month when we need to remind ourselves how reforms have changed India since 1991, from vulnerability to resilience, whether to external shocks (say, oil) or internal ones (droughts). In 2009, we witnessed …
The rice export of Pakistan has exceeded 2.5 billion dollars that is 88 percent more than the last year export in monetary terms while it is being estimated that the export figure may touch 3 billion dollars. Well-placed sources told Business Recorder here on Tuesday that 3.5 million tons rice …
The CCS Haryana Agricultural University (HAU), Hisar, is focusing on development of a variety of rice that will require much less water for cultivation than the traditional varieties. Stating this on Wednesday, HAU Director of Research R.P. Narwal said that to save irrigation water in cultivation of rice, one of …
CUTTACK: Even as agriculture in the State is faced with a serious problem of low productivity and profitability, the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI) here is set to bring out a slew of high-yielding cross-bred aromatic rice varieties in the next few years. With Geographical Indication Tagging (GITag) prohibiting basmati …
Punjab and Haryana governments seek to protect farmers from price fluctuations Punjab and Haryana have asked the government to declare a minimum farmgate price for the Pusa 1121 variety of basmati in order to protect farmers from price fluctuations. This is the first time that such a demand has been …
With expectation of record rice production this year and surplus stocks with Food Corporation of India(FCI), the government on Wednesday allowed exports of three varieties of non-basmati rice mostly grown in southern states. However, exports up to 1.5 lakh tonne of these rice varieties would be allowed. The exports of …
BASMATI rice company LT Foods Ltd plans to invest 100 crore to diversify into the renewable energy sector with a biomass project, a top company executive said. The company has identified a plot in Hoshiarpur district in Punjab for the project and expects the plant to be operational by June …
JAMMU, Sept 6: Divisional Commissioner, Jammu, Dr. Pawan Kotwal, today chaired an officers meeting to discuss the formulation of project on promotion of indigenous Basmati rice in Jammu division here today. Deliberating on vast potential of promotion of this variety in the State, which is a staple crop for a …
Sandip Das New Delhi: With aromatic basmati rice from India kept out of the supermarkets in Germany for the last few months, following reports of the presence of high levels of pesticide residue, exporters are urging the government to hold discussion with the European Union for bringing in uniformity in …
Sandip DasNew Delhi: With Europe and Gulf countries, putting in place stringent safety norms for ensuring that pesticide residue in agricultural crops remain below prescribed limits, basmati (aromatic rice) exporters from India have urged the Union agriculture ministry to ensure that farmers use less pesticide.Europe and Gulf nations are main …
Panchkula Following the rising awareness about organic food, the Haryana State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation (Hafed), will now be producing desi organic wheat and CSR-30 basmati rice. After coming up with organic wheat around three years ago, the state is now experimenting with these crops. An area of around …
Punjab farmers have been struck a double blow on the eve of the paddy transplantation season, which starts tomorrow. Reliant on migrant labour to transplant paddy on 26 lakh hectares, they are witnessing a few arrivals on trains coming in from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Farmers also do not have …
Jammu, May 18 Growers of the world famous basmati in the state are worried over the supply of poor quality seeds and the shortage of fertilisers for the coming sowing season. Despite repeated assurances by Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir in the Assembly session recently, farmers of the RS Pura …
IARI's new basmati varieties are better than Pakistani ones - this will fetch higher prices and a greater market share Surinder Sud / New Delhi May 18, 2010, 0:31 IST Until the 1990s, Pakistan enjoyed an edge over India in the global basmati rice market because it had superior quality …
EGoM On Prices May Agree Today To Hike Minimum Export Price; Pricey Sugar Too Seen On Agenda Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI A MEETING of an empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on prices scheduled for Tuesday is likely to give its nod to hike the minimum export price (MEP) for basmati …
THE All-India Rice Exporters Association (AIREA) has urged the government not to hike the minimum export price (MEP) for basmati, arguing that not only would a higher price hit export volumes but also impact farmers in Punjab and Haryana, who have planted more basmati this year. This demand is prompted …
