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 …
With wheat sown in 34 lakh hectares across the state high day temperature is giving farmers the jitters. At this stage it is the biting cold which promotes tillering of wheat seed which helps raise the wheat yield. Despite having reached mid-December the region is yet to witness trademark shivering …
Asks FCI to speed up movement of stocks The Punjab Food and Supplies Department has requested the Centre to allow border trade of wheat to Pakistan and Afghanistan through the Wagah land route to clear the huge wheat stocks lying in the state. The state has also claimed that slow …
In order to meet increasing demands of food due to rising population and income, food production in India and other south Asian countries need to be increased. Rain-fed agriculture in India, practiced on 94 million hectares (M ha), is considered a major source of production increase in future. This report …
The degradation of insecticides chlorpyrifos, fipronil, endosulfan, cyhalothrin and deltamethrin at 5-10 mg kg in wheat grains during storage and processing was investigated.
Acute water shortage in Digri and Jhuddo talukas may not allow growers to sow wheat crop, said Jhuddo Taluka Nazim Jhuddo Haji Mohammad Hassan Leghari. He said that even drinking water was not being provided in distributaries and minor canals of two talukas. He told journalists that the sowing of …
Farmers Can Take Recourse To MSP, Export Decision Can Be Reviewed In 2009 Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI THE government would do well by not removing the ban on wheat exports now. If India exports wheat now, the global prices, which are already low, would plunge to new depths. The government …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi November 10, 2008, 0:15 IST In a significant move to avert potential global wheat crisis, the wheat growing countries have decided to combat the threat from a new and fast-spreading disease, called Ug99 rust, which can wipe out wheat cultivation in several countries across the …
Global wheat and other cereals output will jump to record highs this year, but the financial crisis is likely to hit the world farming sector and may trigger a new price surge next year, UN
anti-naxal drive NHRC justifies Salwa Judum Salwa Judum in Chhattisgarh is a spontaneous revolt of the tribals against years of atrocities and harassment suffered by them at the hands of the Naxalites, said the National Human Rights Commission (nhrc) in its final report submitted to the Supreme Court. Contrary to …
T.V. Sivanandan GULBARGA: Scientists at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) are preparing to meet the serious threat to wheat cultivation in the country from the
Flour crisis has cropped up again in Jacobabad with more intensity as flour price has risen to Rs35 to 38 per kg from Rs23 per kg. EDO, revenue, Shahid Islam with local Pakistan People
Ajay Modi / New Delhi October 1, 2008, 20:44 IST Two weeks after the Union food ministry made open market sale of 909,000 tonnes of wheat operational, the state governments have not lifted a single grain even though the festive season has set in. It is learnt that there are …
The Punjab government has directed the agriculture department and extension services to formulate its six-month long wheat sowing, growing and maturing pattern in view of 34 percent shortage of ground water for the coming Rabi crops. Punjab Irrigation Consultant M H Siddiquie told Business Recorder that the Indus River System …
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today announced to issue 35 kg of wheat per month to all 12.98 lakh below poverty line (BPL) families and three litres of kerosene per month to all 10 lakh above poverty line (APL) families which do not have gas connections. The rates of …
Ludhiana, September 18 Farmers queue up at 3 am to get seeds of PBW-550 at PAU counters The sale of a new wheat variety seed, PBW 550, today brought thousands of farmers to Punjab Agricultural University. Be it Patiala, Abohar, Mansa, Muktsar or as near as Jagraon, farmers from all …
Bs Reporter / New Delhi September 18, 2008, 3:49 IST Open market sale to check inflationary trends in food items. The government has decided to release 909,000 tonnes of wheat under open market sale scheme to 35 states and Union Territories during September and October to check inflationary trends in …
