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 advised to monitor the crop against yellow rust and frost. Cold waves prevailing over parts of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra and some parts of western Madhya Pradesh are conducive for wheat production, which is in the booting stage now, say agriculture scientists. However, farmers are being …
Deteriorating weather conditions seem to have triggered serious concern among farmers with their rabi crop of wheat being highly prone to diseases such as yellow rust that strike during this period. Though no case of yellow rust affecting rabi crops has been detected in Nainital district, some cases of the …
Iran is seeking to close grain purchases using gold and oil as payment, and has paid yen for a large volume of wheat as it steps up efforts to beat sanctions that had started to choke imports of food staples, European wheat exporters said. Iran bought at least 2,00,000 tonnes …
Observed changes in rainfall patterns and increased temperatures, particularly in the North-Eastern region, are the major projections on which Indian agriculture scientists are pegging their “mitigation and adaptation” plans in the farm sector in the absence of definitive long-term and area-specific data on climate change. Acknowledging that in India the …
New Delhi The 2012-13 Budget may not have to provide as big a jump in the food subsidy bill as expected earlier. This is because of a series of measures initiated by the government to cut wastage and improve efficiency, food minister KV Thomas has said. The measures that would …
Following last year’s successful trial run in wheat procurement when farmers in a few areas received SMS alerts on when to turn up at mandis, Madhya Pradesh has extended the scheme to all districts. Wheat procurement begins across the state on March 15 and only farmers who have registered themselves …
PAU scientists warn that climatic changes may take a toll on various crops grown in the state. What is worrying Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, is that the rise in the average minimum night temperature and the humidity level may not only harm agriculture, but also the ecosystem in the …
New Delhi The agriculture ministry is seeking higher budgetary allocation to ramp up the focus on farm mechanisation and sustainable agricultural schemes in the next financial year, as the country plans to implement an ambitious food security law that would put pressure on the farm sector to scale up productivity …
More intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature ageing, according to a study published recently in Nature Climate Change. Current projections based on computer models underestimate the extent to which hotter weather in the future will accelerate this process, the …
The Hisar-based Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University has signed an agreement with the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) for evaluation of germ plasm. The University's Research Director R. P. Narwal said on Wednesday that agricultural production had been severely affected due to inadequate irrigational resources and changing …
Plans are afoot to include fodder under the scheme Food security has been a long-pending demand of the people. To increase productivity, the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) has been established said, R.S. Malik, National Consultant (Agriculture Extension) of the NFSM, while visiting various fields in Ottapidaram block here on …
China said on Wednesday it would boost agriculture innovation in an effort to increase food output, signaling that the world's most populous country is trying to tackle outdated farm and food infrastructure to feed its people. China accounts for a fifth of the world's population with less than 9 percent …
In order to prevent the attack of yellow rust in wheat, farmers in Haryana have for the first time taken to new yellow rust-resistant varieties. Bidding adieu to earlier varieties that were highly susceptible to yellow rust, farmers this time have adopted new varieties like PBW 621 and HD 2967. …
Pakistan is blessed with the best possible natural resources and weather, but agriculture production of the country is almost 40 percent less in comparison to neighbouring countries in the region. Production deficiencies are results of inefficiencies of research institutes and lack of government’s interest. These observations were made by the …
Ethanol production has boosted the prices of grains that Canadian farmers buy to raise cattle and pigs, and Ottawa should curb or eliminate its support for the industry, an agriculture research organization said on Tuesday. But a leading biofuels group said the report wildly overstated ethanol's impact on grain prices. …
South Asia is arguably the most vulnerable region to increasing food inflation given the large segment of the population living below or near the poverty line. This paper deals with the problems related to food price inflation in South Asia in a comprehensive manner. An in-depth empirical analysis of the …
Extreme heat can cause wheat crops to age faster and reduce yields, a U.S.-led study shows, underscoring the challenge of feeding a rapidly growing population as the world warms. Scientists and farmers have long known that high heat can hurt some crops and the Stanford University-led study, released on Monday, …
An important source of uncertainty in anticipating the effects of climate change on agriculture is limited understanding of crop responses to extremely high temperatures. This uncertainty partly reflects the relative lack of observations of crop behaviour in farmers’ fields under extreme heat. We used nine years of satellite measurements of …
RAJSHAHI: Some newly developed drought- tolerant and high-yielding wheat varieties, especially BARI Gom- 26, has created high hope among farmers of the drought-prone Barind tract. With the breakthrough, farmers have started using the varieties instead of the outdated ones and getting additional yield. Talking to BSS in Rajshahi on Saturday …
Dhaka: The Integrated Agricultural Productivity Project (IAPP), funded by Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GA-FSP), will enhance the productivity of agriculture (crops, livestock and fisheries) in some selected project areas of the country. This includes Rangpur, Kurigram, Nilfamari, and Lalmonirhat districts in the flash-flood and drought-prone areas in the …
