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 …
Domestication and breeding have influenced the genetic structure of plant populations due to selection for adaptation from natural habitats to agro-ecosystems. Here, we investigate the effects of selection on the contents of 51 primary kernel metabolites and their relationships in three Triticum turgidum L. subspecies (i.e. wild emmer, emmer, durum …
Noida: Farmers in Greater Noida have claimed that close to 50% of their crops have been destroyed by the recent spate of rains and hailstorm. The loss of almost half of their wheat crop could lead to massive financial losses for the rest of the year. Farmers have sent a …
To reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission from rice and wheat cultivation several mitigation options have been suggested. However, economic impact of these technologies has been poorly documented. In the present study economic analysis of some emerging GHG mitigation technologies for rice–wheat system of the Indo-Gangetic Plains has been carried …
The unseasonal light to moderate rain, along with strong winds and hail, damaged wheat crop in Hisar and neighbouring districts. The crop was at an advanced stage, farmers said, adding the damage was around 40 per cent. The extent of damage in the late sown variety, however, would be lower, …
Global aid agencies are responding to a call for assistance by Mongolia as harsh winter weather raises fears for the safety and livelihoods of the country's traditional pastoralists, who have already been hit hard by a drought last year. Dry weather has scorched most of Mongolia's wheat crop and now …
Wheat, rice, maize, pearl millet, and sorghum provide over half of the world's food calories. To maintain global food security, with the added challenge of climate change, there is an increasing need to exploit existing genetic variability and develop cultivars with superior genetic yield potential and stress adaptation. The opportunity …
Resilient To Several Pests & Insects, They Also Have Enhanced Nutritional Quality In a sign of the strength of India's public research institutions, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) released seven new varieties of field crops including wheat, rice, chickpea, pigeon pea and mustard and identified 11 varieties of high-yielding agricultural …
The question is how insurance will work for the poor, who have little collateral but face the highest risk In Jammu, litchi was flowering-much earlier and out of season. This is because winter had not come and it was warmer than usual. But now as the chill has set in, …
Climate change is exerting significant impacts on global agricultural production. Climatic variations adversely affect crop production and, thus tend to impose a key constraint of agricultural production, primarily on how to cont inuously enhance the winter wheat yields worldwide. The high uncertainties in predicting the effects of climate change on …
A new FAO book out today takes a close look at how the world's major cereals maize, rice and wheat - which together account for an estimated 42.5 percent of human calories and 37 percent of our protein - can be grown in ways that respect and even leverage natural …
CHANDIGARH: Comparatively higher temperatures during the ongoing winters have become a cause of concern for the wheat-growers in Punjab and Haryana with experts fearing productivity loss if mercury continues to remain this way. Besides, experts also fear fast spread of yellow rust - a fungal disease on wheat crop due …
A vast majority of farmers in the country are aware of the minimum support price (MSP) for various agricultural crops, such as rice, wheat, pulses, coarse cereals and oilseeds, announced by the government annually, a study by Niti Aayog has stated. Eighty-one percent of the cultivators are aware of MSP …
Yellow rust - a fungal disease- has been spotted on wheat crop in Punjab prompting farm experts to advise farmers to remain vigilant as the current weather conditions are conducive for it to spread. According to a survey carried out by scientists of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), yellow rust disease …
The paddy-wheat monoculture induced a decelerating agricultural trend in Punjab which has been felt in the form of stagnation in output, deteriorating productivity, environmental degradation, declining farm incomes, depeasantization and suicides by farmers. Shifting away from rice and wheat which are the most water intensive crops of the state and …
Rabi season sees crop damage on 18 m hectares due to unseasonal rain, hail Farmers in India are facing the impact of extreme weather conditions with 2015 being the third consecutive year in which standing crops across 15 States were damaged on 18.23 million hectares during the rabi (winter) harvesting …
The state government has decided to continue with the national agricultural insurance scheme for the rabi season for wheat and barley crops on the existing patterns after the Centre’s nod. The last date for sending proposal is January 31, 2016, for non-loanee farmers and March 31, 2016, for loanee farmers. …
With a view to providing high quality certified seeds of wheat to farmers of Haryana during the ensuing Rabi season, more than 16.54 lakh quintal seeds have been made available for sale. The government will provide high quality seeds of wheat to farmers this year, an official spokesman said here …
State Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister Saryu Roy said that distribution of rice and wheat under the recently rolled out National Food Security Act in Jharkhand would start October 11. Talking to mediapersons here on Sunday, Roy said that a decision in this regard was taken on Saturday. …
This study describes integration of climate change projections from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) multi-model ensemble with the LARS-WG weather generator, which delivers an attractive option for the downscaling of large-scale climate projections from global climate models (GCMs) to local-scale climate scenarios for impact assessments. A subset …
Zinc (Zn) deficiency is the most widespread micronutrient deficiency in crop plants and humans. Low intake of Zn through diet appears to be the major reason for the widespread prevalence of Zn deficiencies in human populations. Application of Zn fertilizer in soil having low Zn increased the grain yield in …
