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 …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that red wheat would not be distributed through fair price shops from next month. Instead, good quality wheat procured on support price would be distributed under Mukhya Mantri Annapurna Yojana. The Chief Minister reviewed the implementation of Mukhya Mantri Annapurna Yojana here at …
Wheat procurement crossed 210 lakh tonnes till April 25 against 101 lakh tonnes in the year-ago period, helped by record production and higher minimum support price (MSP) to farmers. The Centre's wheat procurement had reached an all-time high last week by surpassing the earlier record of 206.3 lakh tonnes achieved …
In Mexico City, mass protests about the cost of tortillas. In West Bengal, disputes over food-rationing. In Senegal, Mauritania, and other parts of Africa, riots over grain prices. And in Yemen, children march in public to call attention to child hunger. This chain of events is in stark contrast to …
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has forecast that wheat production in Pakistan this year will decline slightly because of dry conditions in some areas and a reduced use of inputs. However, the production may remain slightly above the average for the past five years, according to FAO's
Gujarati farmers are known for their astute business sense. They invariably switch over to a crop that fetches them more money. Earlier, when the farmers in Gujarat found cotton cultivation more profitable than groundnut crop, they had started growing more cotton. This year, Gujarat farmers have taken to cultivation of …
How can countries cope in the short and medium term with the sharp rise in wheat prices? The global movements of the past suggest that in the case of wheat, prices are influenced by the stock and output policies of just a handful of countries. It would be dangerous for …
Farmers in Eastern Uttar Pradesh are increasingly choosing costlier mechanical ways of farming over less-expensive manual ways. Why? "Mechanical harvesting is easy and less time taking. At main harvesting time it's become very tough to get the labourers at right time. And if the harvesting process will get late it …
Blame your biofuel fixation, not India and China, Bush is told LOGIC and empirical facts do not necessarily form a part of United States President George W. Bush's assertions. Five years ago, he went to war against Iraq to unearth weapons of mass destruction that weren't there. And now, in …
Wheat procurement in Punjab and Haryana so far has crossed 100 lakh metric tons and 51 lakh metric tons, respectively. The procurement in Punjab so far has been the highest in the last six years, while that in Haryana has broken the last three years' record, according to Food Corporation …
At your local kirana store, the middle income upwardly mobile Indian can be found buying branded atta which he proudly takes home and also a kilo of jwar and makka which he buys daily to feed the pigeons in his neighbourhood locality square. A mile away in a squatters colony, …
China is able to guarantee stable domestic food supply and price level due to the abundant grain reserves, said the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on Tuesday. In March, international rice prices rose to their highest level in 19 years, and wheat prices rocketed to a 28-year peak. At …
Sindh Food Minister Mir Nadir Ali Magsi has said that the province has so far procured 0.4 million tons of wheat and the department's vigilance teams are maintaining a strict check on the smuggling and hoarding of the commodity. Talking to various delegations at his residence, the minister said that …
India's concerns relating to grains, in general, and wheat, in particular, are becoming more serious. While demand continues to expand rapidly, output has turned unsteady in the last six or seven years, as much because of water stress and declining soil health as the effects of global warming. Wheat prices …
THE PERPETUALLY outraged in the political spectrum on Tuesday got fresh ammunition for their anti-US rhetoric when the White House faulted India and China for the surge in oil prices. The statement comes three days after politicians here interpreted a statement of President Bush
As against scathing attack hurled at Government by the opposition political parties as well as the left allies over galloping inflation in the country, the ruling party at the Centre does not find enough reasons to be so much worried since the weather forecast of meteorological department suggests a near-normal …
The State Government is distributing the same red wheat under the Mukhyamantri Annapurna Yojna which the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has criticised six-months back, alleged Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson JP Dhanopiya. In a press statement, Dhanopiya alleged that six-months back State Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan said that Centre …
The chairman of the food department's vigilance committee, Shah Nawaz Khan Magsi, has said that influential people are involved in the smuggling and black marketing of wheat and flour. Talking to journalists at press club on Saturday, he said that Sindh had a record production of wheat which was sufficient …
Punjab appeared to be set to create a record of sorts as the State Government on Friday claimed that procurement of wheat by various official agencies had already exceeded the target of 80 lakh tonnes fixed by the Union Government. An official release quoting a spokesman of the State Government …
The Union government has crossed the wheat procurement target of 150 lakh tonnes this rabi, and hopes to lift about 180 lakh tonnes for the Public Distribution System, which will be the highest in five years. This will not only ease the supply-side constraints, but also have a salutary effect …
There was, last week, a glimmer of hope in the world food crisis. Expecting a bumper harvest, Ukraine relaxed restrictions on exports. Overnight, global wheat prices fell by 10 percent. By contrast, traders in Bangkok quote rice prices around $1,000 a ton, up from $460 two months ago. Such is …
