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 …
Out on the American farm, the ducks and pheasants are losing ground. Thousands of farmers are pulling their fields out of the government's biggest conservation program, spurning guaranteed annual payments for a chance to cash in on the boom in wheat, soybeans, corn and other crops. Last fall, they took …
Standing crops including wheat and some localities were inundated as rainwater caused a 20-feet wide breach in Rajbah Mison near Alipur on Shah Jewna-Lalian Road, about some 40-km from here last night. According to reports, Alipur, Thattha Karana, Chund Phatak, Basti Odan Wali and other adjoining localities and fields were …
Australia Says Stable Food Supplier Despite Drought JAPAN: April 7, 2008 TOKYO - Australia has demonstrated that it is a reliable, global supplier of wheat and other food, despite up to seven years of drought that has cut deeply into crop production, Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said on Friday. The …
The churn in weather in north and northwest India has tossed up the threat of hailstorm to standing rabi crop, especially wheat, which has entered the harvesting stage. As of now, hailstorm is the only meteorological event that could harm the prospects of the standing wheat crop. The extended winter …
Much like what happened last year, the FCI is unlikely to be able to procure the amount of wheat it needs to. This article is a sequel to the one published under a similar title a year ago (April 1, 2007). Unfortunately, the emerging scenario of a critical situation arising …
Soyabean and wheat prices continued falling yesterday as traders chewed over the implications of the dramatic shifts in agricultural production likely across the US farming industry this year. Both soyabeans and wheat are on course for a large increase in farmland devoted to their production, while last year's rush by …
Sitting on a stock of 5.5 million tonnes of wheat before the marketing season, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) today expressed confidence that it would meet the government's procurement target of 1.5 million tonnes for public distribution system. "The closing stock is 5.5 million tonnes as against the buffer …
India is a country with vast population having crossed over 110 crores mark and growing at alarming rate. It is yet another fact of concern that there has not been a proportionate increase in the production level of foodgrains in the country. It is worth mentioning that out of the …
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said Haryana had acquired the number one position in the country with per capita investment of Rs 78,709, as per a survey conducted recently by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. This leap to the top is from 14th position some years ago. Addressing …
FOR India, the crash in global commodity prices comes as an answer to a prayer. Import of wheat, cooking oil and pulses are now likely to be cheaper as speculators and large funds exit positions in New York and Chicago over the last fortnight. The best part is that those …
By curbing food exports, governments buy relief for consumers at the cost of lowering output Argentine farmers are among the world's most nimble and efficient. They need to be: few countries have been as badly governed as Argentina. Over the past 70 years it has often been the farmers and …
Awami Tehrik chief Rasool Bux Palijo urged the newly-elected government on Thursday to appoint an international and impartial commission of water experts to help solve the perennial dispute among provinces over share in water in accordance with international laws and norms. Mr Palijo who also heads the Sindh Water Committee …
The government has no immediate plan to import wheat as it is confident of procuring enough quantity for the buffer stock, agriculture and food minister Sharad Pawar said here on Monday. "We have no immediate plan for wheat import. The condition of the wheat crop is good and the risk …
APHID attack this season is fast becoming a cause of worry for wheat growers. The attack of this sucking pest is visible almost throughout the state. Experts warn that if things get worse, a fall in the yield of wheat cannot be ruled out. Scientists of Punjab Agricultural University, who …
Various farmers/agriculturist bodies have accused the caretaker government of releasing 600,000 acre feet of water in January from the reservoirs to produce electricity instead of conserving it for crucial watering of wheat crop in the month of March. Founder President of Punjab Water Council, Farooq Bajwa told Business Recorder here …
A wheat disease that could destroy most of the world's main wheat crops could strike south Asia's vast wheat fields two years earlier than research had suggested, leaving millions to starve. The fungus, called Ug99, has spread from Africa to Iran, and may already be in Pakistan.
unicef has cautioned that relaxing mandatory fortification of wheat flour could put the health of Indonesian women and children at risk. unicef's warning follows a recent decision by Indonesia's ministry of industry to annul a 2001 law on mandatory fortification of all flour traded in the country to help reduce …
Flour crisis has intensified in Dadu and Jamshoro districts due to shortage of wheat as food officials reportedly shifted 11,000 wheat bags to Karachi and Hyderabad. Wheat is cultivated in some parts of Johi Taluka but food officials neither showed procurement nor provided bardana to abadgars. The flour and chakkis …
A wheat-killing fungus has spread from Africa to Iran and may already be in Pakistan, which depends crucially on wheat to feed its population, New Scientist magazine says. The killer pathogen, known as Ug99, emerged in Uganda in 1999, spread to Kenya in 2001, to Ethiopia in 2003 and then …
Wheat scientists are on high alert to combat any threat of UG99 wheat fungus. This was stated by Dr Abdul Mujeeb Kazi an eminent international wheat scientist working with National Agricultural Research Centre (Narc). Kazi has also several years' experience in his credit while working in CIMMYT Mexico on wheat, …
