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 …
Semi-arid Gujarat has clocked high and steady growth at 9.6% per year in agricultural state domestic product since 1999-2000. What has driven this growth? The Gujarat government has aggressively pursued an innovative agriculture development programme by liberalising markets, inviting private capital, reinventing agricultural extension, improving roads and other infrastructure. Canal-irrigated …
This study of the performance of agriculture at the state level in India during the post-reform period (1990-93 to 2003-06) and the immediate pre-reform period (1980-83 to 1990-93) shows that the post-reform period has been characterised by deceleration in the growth rate of crop yields as well as total agricultural …
Development of improved technology with most suitable cropping system for a particular agro-climatic condition plays a pivotal role in increasing agricultural production. In Jammu and Kashmir wheat is the most important cereal crop in subtropical zone of the state. However, in the valley temperate zone, wheat cultivation is practiced in …
The experiment was conducted to study the residual effect of sulfonylurea herbicides applied to wheat on the different kharif crops as affected by organic matter. The results revealed that significantly higher wheat grain and straw yield was obtained where FYM was applied at 30 t/ha over 10 t ha-1 during …
Punjab farmers are facing an acute shortage of seeds for newer varieties of wheat. Barely 40 per cent of the total expected area under wheat cultivation has been sown but now farmers in the state don
Punjab may be the breadbasket of the country, but not only are its traditional wheat-growing areas producing less, overall productivity in the state has stagnated and is even on the decline. A recent survey by the state Agriculture Department has revealed that areas such as Sangrur, Fatehgarh Sahib and Patiala, …
THE Congress and BJP have promised to provide rice and wheat at subsidised rates for the BPL families of Jharkhand where five-phase Assembly pollsbeginfromNovember25. While the Congress has promised to bring down the price of rice and wheat to Rs 3 each per kg, the BJP has made a commitment …
S Kalyana Ramanathan / London November 10, 2009, 1:20 IST Pranab Mukherjee Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said that despite the shortfall in agriculture production, India has adequate buffer stocks of rice and wheat and the government will import what is needed to maintain demand and supply. Addressing the media here …
Thunder, lightning and intermittent showers early this morning followed by the varying spells of sunshine throughout the day were perhaps not enough to provide respite from a thick veil of polluted smog that has been enveloping parts of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh for the past more than a week. Unprecedented …
A significant number of farmers in nearly a dozen villages of Jhajjar district, about 30 km from here, are on the verge of ruin following the alleged 'lethargic' attitude of the district administration in draining out accumulated rain water from their fields. Thousands of acres in the villages are still …
BHOPAL: A Day after Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar indicated that there was little likelihood of prices coming down, the Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday announced that it would sell cheap foodgrain in urban areas. Elections to municipal corporations and other urban bodies are due and the notification will be announced …
This paper reviews the success of zero-tillage wheat in the rice-wheat systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains. Diffusion of the zero- tillage technology increased in the last decade, particularly in northwest India. In 2008, in India alone, the aggregate area in zero- or reduced- tillage wheat amounted to 1.76 million hectares, …
Pakistan Seed Council (PSC) has put a ban on the cultivation of six varieties of wheat. All these varieties have been completely deprived of per acre production due to attack of several pests. According to sources, Pakistan Seed Council has completely banned 6 varieties of wheat including Punjab 85, Punjab …
Way Out: Govt-To-Govt Imports Or Allowing State Units To Source For Welfare Needs Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI THE rice output for 2009-10 may be weaker at 82 million tonne (MT), a drop of 17 mt over record 99.15 mt output in 2008-09, according to US Department of Agriculture. Considering an …
With the government finding itself in a spot after deficient monsoon adversely affected rice output this year, the government on Tuesday said that it would release about 30 lakh tonnes of wheat in the open market to keep a check on the foodgrain prices in the domestic market. Minister of …
The crops in the Shivaliks of Punjab usually suffer water stress under limited and erratic water supply condition. A field experiment was conducted on a sandy loam soils during 2004-05 and 2005-06 to study the effect of tillage and nitrogen management on grain yield, water expense and soil physical properties …
I am extremely happy to note that this year, India Today State of the States Conclave has decided to keep agriculture at the top of its agenda. The topic, "Second Green Revolution: What the States Need to Do", is extremely appropriate though I would modify it slightly to read "Second …
