The 2023 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor, a flagship publication of AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute, provides an overview of trade in agriculture in Africa, including analysis of short- and long-term trends and drivers behind Africa’s global trade, intra-African trade, and trade within Africa’s regional economic communities. The …
Striking against rising global protectionism, India has dragged both Turkey and Egypt to the World Trade Organisation for imposing special import duties on Indian cotton yarn, lowering competitiveness in these markets. New Delhi has been criticising Turkey for violating WTO norms at several forums of the WTO for the past …
The second advance estimates of agricultural output released by the government on Friday projected another bumper harvest with foodgrain output pegged at a new record of 250.42 million tonnes during 2011-12 crop year as against the record 244.78 million tonnes the previous year. While the increased rice output in eastern …
Human pesticide poisoning has become major public health issue these days. Throughout the world highest levels of pesticide exposure are found in the farm workers, applicators and people living adjacent to heavily treated agricultural land. Pesticides are linked to various chronic diseases like cancers, infertility, kidney failure, repr oductive problems …
Questions have been raised about the transparency and scientific quality of regulatory processes applied in the first open field releases of genetically modified (GM) insects, and there is concern that inappropriate precedents have been set, particularly through generic risk assessments covering multiple species and technologies. The GM insects tested in …
Talwandi Sabo (Bathinda): Karnail Singh suffers from renal cell carcinoma, a form of kidney cancer. A resident of Jajjal village in Punjab’s Malwa region that has produced maximum number of CMs including SAD’s Parkash Singh Badal and Congress’ Amarinder Singh, Karnail would be expected to have access to considerable medical …
The State government will extend the repayment period for crop loans taken by farmers from cooperative institutions by one year in taluks that have been declared drought-hit in the State, Cooperation Minister Lakshman Savadi said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters in Bangalore, Savadi said the rescheduling of loans will be …
To disseminate Insecticide Resistance Management (IRM) strategies, 10 villages were adopted in Muktsar district of Punjab during 2008 and 2009. Two villages were kept as check (Non-IRM) for comparing the impact of IRM strategies on the major insect pests and natural enemies in Bt cotton arthropod fauna.
The acreage under the transgenic Bt cotton seeds in India has risen significantly since its legalization in the year 2002. Discussions on the advantages from the technology have focused on increments in productivity and income, without much analysis on risk. Point out that claims on productivity gains seem to be …
Jalgaon Usually, this time of the year, Jalgaon is abuzz with trucks ferrying mountains of fluffy white cotton to its markets. But this year, farmers have been blocking roads with burning tyres and refusing to sell their produce in a bid to force the government to prop up crop prices, …
India's claim of having developed its own Bt cotton (genetically modified) variety has taken an embarrassing turn with an RTI inquiry by two scientists revealing how the University of Agriculture Sciences (UAS) at Dharwad went ahead — brushing aside all precautions — to produce an indigenous variety working on a …
The income is not enough to meet even their expenses this year Caught in crisis: The consignment that has arrived at the cotton market in Raichur. It is called the white gold in these parts. But cotton has failed to bring fortunes to farmers in the district. Decreased production, failure …
A Rs 1,500 crore integrated textile park, recently cleared by the empowered committee of the state government, is going to be set up in Panjava village under Malaut tehsil. The project with a capacity of 2 lakh spindles, will provide direct employment to more than 10,000 persons and indirect employment …
“Decision keeping in mind lower production and falling prices” Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday announced the much-awaited Rs.2,000-crore relief package for cotton, soyabean and paddy farmers in the Vidarbha, Marathwada and North Maharashtra regions of the State, amid protests from the Opposition that it was a pittance. Mr. …
Bowing to pressure from the opposition, the government has announced a package of Rs2,000 crore to the farmers of cotton, soya, and paddy in the regions of Vidarbha (eastern Maharashtra), Marathwada (southeastern Maharashtra) and Khandesh (northern Maharashtra). Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, who announced the package in the council and later …
Mumbai: The stir launched by over five million cotton growers took a violent turn on Wednesday, however, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has refused to decide on their demand, citing the code of conduct which is in force following the elections to the municipal councils. “We had taken up the proposal …
A Punjab Agriculture University (PAU) research spanning over 14 years has shown considerable decline in the level of contamination in different food commodities. Conducted by the university’s Department of Entomology between 1997 and 2010, the researchers, after analysing 3,300 food samples, found that the contamination level had come down to …
A fact-finding team representing a collective of 40 farmers' organisations, Raitu Swarajya Vedika, has found an alarming rise in the number of suicides by farmers — as many as 90 in the last month alone — in Adilabad, Khammam, Karimnagar, Medak, Mahbubnagar and Anantapur districts of Andhra Pradesh. Releasing a …
Team Anna member, Mr Arvind Kejriwal, has said that corruption is one the major factors behind farmers’ suicides in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, and the Jan Lokpal Bill will bring relief to the distressed peasants. “Despite whooping amounts sanctioned by the government to curb suicides in the region, it is …
Bt cotton was officially approved for cultivation in Tamil Nadu in 2002, when the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee, the apex regulatory body pertaining to transgenics (renamed as Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee in 2010) allowed three Bt cotton hybrids to be cultivated in the southern zone of cotton cultivation in India.This …
Officials wrongly report rain in taluk above average People in the taluk may soon have to literally go in search of greener pastures, if it does not rain for another few days. An exodus seems imminent with the land being bone-dry and no sign of rain in the near future. …
