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 Government has sought comments on the proposed Food Security Bill, which seeks to provide legal entitlement to subsidised foodgrains for up to three-fourth of the rural population and half of the urban households. The Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs has placed the draft National Food Security Bill, 2011 …
EGoM nod expected shortly for new food storage policy with thrust on public-pvt partnership The government is ready with a blueprint to build grain silos through public-private partnerships to meet the procurement and storage requirement under the food security bill. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee-headed empowered group of ministers is expected …
The State Variety Approval Committee, at a meeting in Ludhiana today, approved HD 2967, a new wheat variety, to replace the existing PBW 343, which is being phased out because it has become increasingly susceptible to yellow rust. The new variety was formally approved at a meeting of the Approval …
In this paper we demonstrate that the high level of wheat procurement during 2008-09 and 2009-10 at a higher minimum support price was necessitated by the difficult circumstances that the government faced, characterised by a precarious buffer stock position from 2005 to 2008. Hence, blaming larger procurement and a higher …
LUCKNOW: After an all time high wheat production in 2010-11, the state may witness record kharif production in the current season. Thanks to good rainfall in monsoon, as per initial estimates, the area under cultivation of sugarcane and kharif crop and paddy has increased by 6-8% in comparison to the …
Pinpointing inadequate research as the main reason behind low wheat and rice productivity in India, global seeds major Monsanto has earmarked a grant of $10 million (about Rs 46 crore) for promoting research on the two staple foodgrains. The company has provided a grant of $10 million to create the …
A House panel has called for lifting the ban on wheat and premium non-basmati rice exports at the earliest. This, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Commerce said, is an immediate solution to the food grain glut in the country. However, while lifting the ban, the Government should also keep in …
To improve offtake of foodgrain allocated to states under the targeted public distribution system (PDS) and other schemes, the food ministry has mooted a proposal to sell wheat and rice to below poverty line (BPL) families at Rs 2 and Rs 3 per kilogram, respectively. The proposal is in line …
Ever More Revolutions It is strange that the PM, who pioneered economic liberalisation, should look for ever greater production in a single industry — agriculture The Prime Minister promised rural India a new deal, which would involve a second green revolution; that was while inaugurating the Delhi office of the …
Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Chairman C. Rangarajan, who was earlier not in favour of the inclusion of above poverty line families under the proposed Food Security Bill, on Monday said that they could be given legal entitlements with lesser quantity of foodgrains. “The general category can be given …
Punjab Seed Council (PSC) has approved 13 new varieties of various crops for cultivation including five wheat varieties Dhara-B-2011, Punjab-2011, Millet-2011, NARC-2011, Aas 2011 and one sugarcane variety CPF-247. The approved varieties of other crops include two varieties of pulses Bhakkar-2011 and NIAB Moong-2011, two varieties of olive Bari Zetoon-1 …
A Subba Rao, Director and his associate K Sammi Reddy, Principal Scientist, Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal, jointly conferred prestigious 'Hari Om Ashram Trust Award 2008-09'. They received a cash award of `1,00,000 and a citation from Union Minister of Agriculture Sharad Pawar on July 16, 2011 at New …
LUCKNOW: The ministry of consumer affairs and public distribution has allocated of 5.28 lakh tonnes per month of wheat and rice to Uttar Pradesh for the fiscal year 2011-12. The assigned foodgrains have been made available to the department of food and civil supplies for distribution through the public distribution …
Good monsoon, higher MSP help The country is heading for a record foodgrains production in the 2010-11 crop year at 241.56 million tonnes, with wheat and pulses output touching an all time high of 85.93 million tonnes and 18.09 million tonnes respectively. Union Agriculture Secretary P. K. Basu attributed the …
India, whose wheat stocks are overflowing because of bumper crops, has lifted a four-year ban on exports of the grain, a minister said on Saturday, according to a report. India, banned wheat exports in early 2007 to boost domestic supplies after production was hit by bad weather and to help …
