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 …
This paper examines whether the wheat market is integrated across states in India, and concludes that the market is integrated in the long run. This long run integration, however, does not come from the free flow of goods across states in the country, but from the sharing of similar production …
WHILE a majority of wheat farmers in Punjab and Haryana are ruing the loss of yield, all those who went for organic and natural farming this time are a happy lot. They are selling their produce at the rate of Rs 2,500 per quintal; a few varieties are fetching Rs …
The farming community has urged the government to conduct district-wise yield survey to collect information on the varieties of seeds sown by the farmers. Khawja Muhammad Shoaib of Farmers Vision Forum said that many factors had combined to give a sizeable wheat crop, including reasonable procurement price announced by the …
Extra efforts gave good results by Gobind Thukral THE present Punjab government has earned a kind of notoriety largely by ignoring the issues of governance. Take education, health services and other departments and government agencies that are supposed to serve the public. We all know, as does the Chief Minister …
The Indo-Gangetic Alluvial Plains (IGP) is among the most extensive fluvial plains of the world and cover several states of the northern, central and eastern parts of India. The IGP occupies a total area of approximately 43.7 m ha and represent eight agro-ecological regions (AER) and 14 agro-ecological subregions. The …
The Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission (PC), Sardar Asef Ahmed Ali said on Thursday that country would be able to produce 24 million tons of wheat. Talking to reporters after a workshop on 'Social Health Protection Mapping', he proposed to store the surplus of the produce as strategic reserves for the …
Mandi Ahmedgarh: In an effort to join the poll campaigns of their candidates, farmers of the area falling under the Sangrur and Ludhiana districts continue to burn wheat stubble in their fields. Despite warnings by environmentalists and farm scientists against the burning of stubble and the ban imposed by the …
Agroforestry that envisages integration of trees, herbaceous crops and/or animals on the same land unit, holds promising potential in Punjab to diversify traditional rice-wheat rotation. On the basis of information provided by the respondents, it was realized that the farmers with low awareness, unfavourable attitude and constraints (land, technical, financial, …
Jammu: Mature wheat crop on at least 139 kanals was damaged in fire caused due to an alleged short-circuit in power transmission wires in the border area of Badyal Brahmna, around 4 km from RS Pura, this evening. Three incidents of devastating fire in different villages of RS Pura and …
Jammu: Separate incidents of fire reduced standing wheat crop covering as many as 143 kanals of land to ashes yesterday. A major fire razed bone-dry crop in the border village of Agra Chak in RS Pura tehsil and at Goh-Brahmna village in Vijaypur tehsil of Samba district. At Agra Chak, …
Wheat harvesting has started in most pockets of Jammu division. The farmers this time have been relying on labourers from Bihar and other states for harvesting of wheat. Due to intermittent rain earlier this month, the harvest of wheat had got delayed for a few days but is catching up …
The middleman has again become active in Multan, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan division's 13 wheat growing area in the Punjab since the Government's wheat procurement drive has begun and they are trying to deprive the poor farmers of their due profit. This year, too, the middleman mafia with the …
Rains lashed at many parts of the country during the past two weeks could affect and delay the harvesting of the standing wheat crop in different parts of the country. "Rains and windy weather at this stage are not good for the wheat crop, which is fully ripe and at …
Vijay C Roy / Chandigarh April 16, 2009, 0:25 IST Wheat procurement from Punjab is expected to be lower this season following reduced estimates for the crop. With untimely rain causing widespread damage to the crop this Rabi season, Punjab has lowered its wheat output estimates by 500,000 tonnes to …
Scientists have located a gene (Lr34) present in wheat plants that increases resistance to leaf rust, says Rohini Rangarajan Come winter and wheat plants might exhibit symptoms every farmer dreads. The leaves and stems show small orange to brown flecks that soon enlarge and spread. The infected parts mature and …
Punjab has lifted as much as 12.45 lakh metric tonnes (MT) of wheat from all over the state, after a record 15.17 lakh MT arrival of wheat due to early crop this year. This was stated by D S Guru, principal secretary to chief minister, while inspecting the various mandis …
