The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
GOVERNMENT appears to be winning the war against tobacco cultivation, with the Ministry of Agriculture reporting a decline in the amount of land currently under production. Chief technical director in the ministry Dermon Spence told the Jamaica Observer that preliminary figures for 2014 show a 43 per cent decrease in …
With the highest number of farmer suicides in 2013, Maharashtra continues to paint a dismal picture on the agrarian front. According to a recent report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 3,146 farmers killed themselves in the State in 2013. This despite the State registering 640 less farm suicides …
Large cardamom (Amomum subulatum) is an important cash crop and livelihood option for people in Sikkim. This high-value, minimally labour-intensive, and non-perishable crop is cultivated as an understory perennial crop in association with Himalayan alder (Alnus nepalensis) and other forest tree species that provide shade. It is cultivated in all …
Cashew is often regarded as 'poor man's crop and rich man's food' and is an important cash crop and highly valued nut in the global market. The area under cashew cultivation is the highest in India. However, it is not so in the case of productivity, processing and quality. In …
A recent Lancet article reported the first reliable estimates of suicide rates in India. National-level suicide rates are among the highest in the world, but suicide rates vary sharply between states and the causes of these differences are disputed. We test whether differences in the structure of agricultural production explain …
With a view to provide comprehensive statistical information on agriculture as well as other related variables, the "Statistical Information on Nepalese Agriculture, 2012/13" is being prepared and published by the Agri Statistics section, Agri-Business Promotion and Statistics Division, Ministry of Agricultural Development (MOAD). The contents in this edition are Pre …
Farmers organisations led by Indian Farmers Movement (Infam) have decided to stage dharnas and take out protest marches on November 1 in Kozhikode and Malappuram districts to protest against recommendations of the Kasturirangan and Madhav Gadgil panel reports which they believe are a threat to their livelihood and were aimed …
Demanding that steps be taken to increase the country's cotton production, Southern India Mills' Association (SIMA) on Wednesday said field trials on genetically modified (GM) cotton varieties should be given a go ahead. Speaking on the sidelines of the annual general body meeting, newly elected president of SIMA T Rajkumar …
The state-run Soil Resource Development Institute (SRDI) has claimed that there has been about 30.6 per cent fall in the tea cultivation area in the country over the last ten years. The tea growers have, however, contradicted the finding saying that it has rather expanded. The latest research by SRDI …
The world's highest deforestation rate, the execution of eight environmental activists including a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and ongoing turmoil surrounding oil operations in the Niger River Delta has created a notoriously disreputable environmental record for the West African country. Now, a new threat is rising in the already-compromised forests …
Cotton, soya bean have been severely damaged to heavy rains. Floods due to heavy rainfall in Vidarbha have severely damaged cash crops, including cotton, oranges and soya beans. The Maharashtra government has set up a three-member committee to look into the damages caused to these crops and also to farm …
Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) has issue final figures for domestic cotton production in 2012-13. According to report, total domestic cotton production is 12,915,585 bales that are 1,898,194 bales (12.81pc) less than previous year. That report says that during the year 2012-13 Punjab produced 9,508,418 bales that are 2,623,662 bales …
The cashew brought from Brazil to India by the Portuguese about 400 years ago. Initially it was cultivated to arrest soil erosion and sea winds, but later it became an important cash crop. In fact it was not Brazil but India, which made a commodity of international trade and India …
A case study from Baigachak of Chhattisgarh by Ramesh Sharma, Ekta Parishad at CSE Climate change adaptation workshop: Towards Climate Resilient Communities in South Asia: Emerging Policies and Practices (New Delhi, December 13 - 14, 2012).
Ministry of Agricultural Development (MOAD), Agri-Business Promotion and Statistics Division (ABPSD), Agri Statistics Section as part of its regular function, has been publishing "Statistical Information on Nepalese Agriculture" on yearly basis with the aim of providing better and useful agricultural information of the country. It is hoped that this document, …
The objection raised by NGOs and other expert panels against Bt cotton have been “speculative, confusing and without any reasonable assessment of technological strength”, Parliament was informed today. Bt cotton is the only transgenic crop approved for commercialisation in the country till date. In a written reply to the Lok …
The Andhra Pradesh Government will probe the reported attack of sucking pests on Bt cotton in some parts of the State. The Agriculture Minister Kanna Lakshminarayana has directed the officials to initiate a probe by the scientists of Acharya N.G. Ranga Agriculture University (ANGRAU) on the reported damage of Bt …
Growing cash crops is not a new thing in Indian tradition, but considered in the context of efficient land use, food- & fodder security, environmental- & ecological security, and of course the socio-economic security land use changes for growing cash crops that are incompatible to all or most of such …
Aizawl: Under its New Land Use Policy (NLUP), Mizoram is laying emphasis on ending the age-old jhum shifting cultivation and has allocated Rs 410 crore in this year’s budget to enable about 30,000 more tribal families to shift to stable farming, a minister said on Tuesday. “In this year’s State …
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT) has decided to lay emphasis on research of new breeds of various agro products, including paddy, jute, pulses, cotton and oilseeds in the current fiscal year. Dean (Research) S S Nanda said this year new varieties of rice like Tanmayee, Hiranmayee, …
