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 …
Growers fear losses to wheat, stone fruit, vegetables Farmers are a worried lot as there is no respite from rain, thunderstorm and hailstorm causing damage to crops. The farmers, who are yet to recover from damage caused by rain in March and early April, fear heavy losses to the wheat …
Monetary relief would be provided within a month to farmers whose crops were left damaged after the recent unseasonal rains and hailstorms in several parts of the State, Haryana Finance and Revenue Minister Captain Abhimanyu said on Wednesday. “The farmers will receive compensation cheques within one month. Necessary steps are …
बेमौसम बारिश व ओलावृष्टि से प्रभावित जिलों की संख्या 58 और मृतकों की संख्या 50 पहुंच गई है। इस बीच आपदा प्रभावित जिलों के 9.45 लाख किसानों में 401.35 करोड़ रुपये सहायता के रूप में बांटे गए हैं। उधर सरकार ने जिलाधिकारियों को आपदा राहत के कार्य में किसी भी …
A virulent new strain of fungus from the Himalayas threatens to wipe out up to a quarter of the wheat crop in some areas of the UK this harvest season, experts have warned. Farmers are struggling to deal with Warrior, a new strain of the deadly yellow rust disease that …
PILIBHIT: In view of the widespread damage to crops caused by unseasonal rain across the state, Uttar Pradesh government has decided to compensate even those farmers who suffered losses between 25 and 50%. An order to the effect was received here on Wednesday. The DM has ordered revenue officials to …
Says crops on 2.94 lakh hectares were damaged The Punjab Government has sought a comprehensive relief package of Rs717 crore from the Centre to provide adequate compensation to thousands of farmers who suffered major losses due to their standing crops being damaged by untimely rains and hailstorms. In a letter …
Regional climate models (RCMs) are considered to be more useful than general circulation models for assessing impacts of climate change scenarios in agriculture. In this communication, the climatic outputs of an RCM–PRECIS (providing regional climates for impact studies) model were analysed by comparing its baseline simulation daily weather data on …
JAMMU, Mar 17: Over 20,000 hectares cropped area has been affected with the hailstorm and yellow rust in Jammu region due to massive rains, hailstorm and bad weather. Reports said that the farmers from the plain areas of Kathua, Hiranagar, Samba, Vijaypur, Bishnah, Suchetgarh, Arnia, R S Pura, Marh, Pargwal …
Wheat crop spread over 700 acres was flattened as strong winds accompanied by hailstorm lashed the state today. Durala, Kesri, Langer Chani, Bitha and Doba villages near Saha; Mehmodpur, and some parts of Samabalka and Duhkeri villages; and villages in the Nagal belt on the Ambala-Hisar road were the worst …
The number of suicide cases by farmers due to agrarian reasons have increased by 26 percent to 1,109 in 2014, with majority of deaths reported from Maharashtra, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. Out of 1,109 cases, 986 were reported from Maharashtra, 84 from Telangana and 29 from Jharkhand. In 2013, …
India has emphasised inclusion of adaptation as a part of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC). For understanding adaptation requirements, we need to understand and value climate change impacts first. This preliminary assessment tries to estimate the cost of global climate change impacts for India. The study aims at estimating first …
Wheat was present in Britain 8,000 years ago, according to new archaeological evidence. Fragments of wheat DNA recovered from an ancient peat bog suggests the grain was traded or exchanged long before it was grown by the first British farmers. The research, published in Science, suggests there was a sophisticated …
The world food crisis in 2008 highlighted the susceptibility of the global food system to price shocks. Here we use annual staple food production and trade data from 1992–2009 to analyse the changing properties of the global food system. Over the 18 year study period, we show that the global …
Gairaha is not a place that usually attracts media attention. But something unusual was under way as the new year entered its second week. On January 8, the village in Bangra in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district saw more than 10,000 farmers protesting at the local intermediate college. Incensed over the …
In adapting US agriculture to the climate of the 21st century, a key unknown is whether cropping frequency may increase, helping to offset projected negative yield impacts in major production regions. Combining daily weather data and crop phenology models, we find that cultivated area in the US suited to dryland …
Wheat dwarf India virus (WDIV) is the first mastrevirus reported to have subgenomic molecules called satellites. To establish association of the satellites with WDIV across a variety of ecoclimatic conditions, a countrywide survey was carried out.
Renewable resources may have finally reached their limits. Scientists have analyzed the production and extraction rates of 27 global renewable and non-renewable resources and have found that for 18 renewable resources, the annual growth rate reached its peak around 2006. The term "peak" in the context of resource use was …
Contrary to opinion articulated through various quarters, empirical evidence and various studies have shown that the agronomic practices since the Green Revolution, especially dependence on the wheat-paddy cycle, had only improved the soil fertility in Punjab, where cropping intensity has reached 190 per cent. A reduction in fertilizer consumption notwithstanding, …
Crop models are essential tools for assessing the threat of climate change to local and global food production. Present models used to predict wheat grain yield are highly uncertain when simulating how crops respond to temperature. Here we systematically tested 30 different wheat crop models of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison …
This NSSO survey report on nutritional intake covering - calorie, protein and fat reveals rising consumption of fat across the rural and urban India. Read this report, related reports, documents and more...
