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 …
New Delhi In order to avoid imports of grain for implementing the proposed food security Bill in years when monsoon fails, the government will include a provision in the Bill to allow beneficiaries to get cash instead of grain. According to sources, the requirement of grain for the proposed food …
Will entitle 75% of rural homes and half of urban ones to subsidised grain; NAC recommendations diluted. Diluting some recommendations of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC), an empowered group of ministers (eGoM) today cleared the draft Food Security Bill, which has proposed a legal entitlement for subsidised grain …
The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on Food on Monday cleared the crucial Food Security Bill, which seeks to entitle 75 per cent of the BPL (below poverty line) population and 50 per cent of the urban population to heavily subsidised food grains. It also lifted the ban on export …
Ludhiana: The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has developed two new high yielding varieties of wheat and cotton for cultivation in the state. The varieties
LUCKNOW: Following the success of application of information technology in sugarcane plantation in the season 2010-11, the cane development department has now decided to introduce Global Positioning System (GPS) to survey cane acreage in 2011-12. The move will help in accurate estimation of crop production, will save time, reduce expenditure …
Haryana has been selected for the Best Performing State Award for wheat for 2010-11, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Monday. The award would be presented by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on ICAR Foundation Day in New Delhi on July 16. He disclosed that the award money, Rs.1 crore …
A field experiment was conducted at the research farm of Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi during 3 wet and dry seasons of 2003-06 in rice-wheat cropping system. In this experiment different treatments comprising organic amendments such as blue green algae, vermicompost and farm yard manure applied alone or in …
In the present investigation, impact of different tillage options on wheat yield has been evaluated for various locations of IGP region. In general, more increase in wheat yield was observed was observed in zero tillage when compared with conventional tillage.
During the late 1950s and early 1960s food deficits India has been requiring importation of 3 to 4 million tons of grain per year. However because of bad monsoons in 1965 and 1966, imports exploded unpwardly to 10 million tons, and India was in dire straits. It was during this …
In a shocking and distressing revelation Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday long term malnutrition was as high 41 per cent in Nuwara Eliya with the short term malnutrition was at 11 per cent and called for a sharp change in food patterns among Sri Lankans. He said malnutrition and …
Having resisted the export of foodgrain since taking charge in January, Food Minister K V Thomas on Wednesday said that he was not opposed to export of
Chandigarh Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal strongly urged members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on commerce to take up various pending issues of the state, including industrial package on the lines of hill states, setting up of steel silos, package for agro industries development, relaxation of the norms to …
New Delhi Grain procurement by the government could see a quantum jump in coming years if the proposed Food Security Bill, which assures distribution of subsidised grain to large section of population, is enacted. Food minister KV Thomas on Wednesday said the annual foodgrain procurement could reach more than 60 …
THERE have been many indicators that global warming could be hurting the world food production, lowering yields and increasing prices. Turns out the warming of the planet over the past three decades has already led to a measurable reduction in crop production of wheat and maize. Researchers from Stanford University …
With the USAID intervention of $62 million (agriculture recovery project), the flood-affected areas across the country produces wheat crops worth $175 million. A USAID expert told journalists Tuesday after devastated flood 2010, the USAID came out for the rescue of farmers in 22 flood affected districts in KPK, Punjab and …
In 2007-08, staring at a global food crisis, a nervous government banned export of wheat and non-basmati rice without bothering to create the space for the stocks the country would hold back. Today, with the granaries overflowing, the government is struggling rid itself of stocks that it just cannot manage. …
