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 …
Wheat prices surged to a two-year high while shares in European brewers and food producers fell on Friday as markets reacted to the sudden imposition of a ban on grain exports from drought-hit Russia.Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin moved decisively on Thursday to halt exports of grain and flour from …
The Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan met the Union Agriculture Minister Shri Sharad Pawar and urged him to take initiative for setting up of international wheat and maize research centre at Jabalpur. Minister for Animal Husbandry Shri Ajay Vishnoi accompanied him. Shri Chouhan said that 200 acre land would …
Recent events in Russia, one of the largest suppliers of wheat in the world, have raised concern about the current and future price of wheat and wheat-based products. This article briefly examines the issue and determines if there is in fact cause for serious alarm.
Be it at the Centre or at the state level, the Congress seems to have trained its guns on Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) party president and Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar. The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) in a letter to prime minister Manmohan Singh has said that wheat, which …
New Delhi: With foodgrain stocks mounting and good monsoons promising yet another bumper harvest, government has decided to export around 300,000 tonne of wheat and rice to Bangladesh and Nepal through diplomatic channels. It has also decided to grant infrastructure statues to godowns and warehouses constructed through private participation which …
Chandigarh: While people in some food grain deficit states were starving, thousands of tonne of wheat stocks were rotting in the open in the rains in Punjab. Punjab Mandi Board chairman Ajmer Singh Lakhowal making this startling finding told FE here on Tuesday that jointly Punjab and Haryana this year …
Antiquated food storage methods and technologies have been costing India dearly. The chairman of the Food Corporation of India (FCI), Siraj Hussain, admits that food worth Rs 50,000 crore is wasted every year. This comes roughly to 20 per cent of the total food produced by the country. Though this …
CHANDIGARH: A Central team of the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs on Sunday visited Bani village in Sirsa district to assess the extent of loss to wheat which was damaged in the State Warehouse during the recent floods. The team comprised Jitender Narayan, Director, Food and Public Distribution Department; Ashok …
Chandigarh: Flooding has threatened paddy transplantation in fields in Punjab, especially in the Sangrur district, there are apprehensions that wheat sowing in November would be an uphill task. A central team on Tuesday visited flood-ravaged areas of Moonak to take stock of the devastation caused by the flood and voiced …
Fatehgarh Sahib: Lakhs of rotten wheat bags in open godowns of different villages of Fatehgarh Sahib are emanating unbearable stench after recent rains. Villagers of Ranwan, near Khamano, and Kotla Bhaika in Sirhind are suffering due to the lakhs of rotten paddy and wheat bags lying in open godowns for …
The state government has chalked out a scheme to supply quality flour instead of wheat to the low and middle income group families. Preparations have become to implement this scheme from August 15 in the urban areas of all the divisions. This flour will be sold in addition to the …
AGRICULTURE experts from various countries gathered at St Petersburg in Russia on May 30-31 to strategize how to combat wheat rust diseases threatening the world’s food supply. Syria said 80 per cent of its wheat fields are infected by stripe rust. Three of the world’s top 10 wheat producing countries— …
The introduction of transgenes into plants may cause unintended phenotypic effects which could have an impact on the plant itself and the environment. Little is published in the scientific literature about the interrelation of environmental factors and possible unintended effects in genetically modified (GM) plants.
A demand to reintroduce a universal Public Distribution System (PDS) in the country appears every now and then. Its proponents argue that universal access is necessary for ensuring food security, for better control on prices and for eliminating (at least partially) the evils of exclusion errors in the targeted PDS. …
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 …
The prime objective of the study is to estimate and compare the CO2 and carbon emission by direct use of fossil fuels in farm operations under the conventional and resource conservation systems in major wheat growing regions of India.
Rice-wheat farming systems have identified the economic benefits of zero tillage farming and it covers about 80 per cent of the food requirement and about 60 per cent of the nutritional requirement of the Indian population.
Food security has been a cause of concern for the Indian economy as the physical and economic access to food with adequate calorie content from different sources has been on the wane over time. The per capita net availability of cereals and pulses declined from 510 gms per day in …
