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 …
AHMEDABAD: The pricing of cotton seeds is no more under the control of the state government, as the Gujarat high court has declared the Gujarat Cotton Seeds Act invalid as it comes into conflict with the legislation made by the Centre. A division bench headed by chief justice SJ Mukhopadhaya …
Output may reach 40 million bales in 2011-12. Cotton output in India, the world’s second-largest producer, may rise to a record for a second straight year as a rally in prices spurs farmers to boost planting, traders said. Output could reach 40 million bales in the 2011-2012 season, said Parth …
This study focuses on the direct monetary and other effects of growing GM crops that influence farmers‘ income, as represented by the following economic parameters: crop yields, seed costs, pesticides and herbicides costs, labour costs, and gross margins. The objectives of this study are, firstly, to provide an overview of …
ISLAMABAD (February 08, 2011) : Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture Nazar Muhammad Gondal on Monday said devastating floods caused severe losses to the economy and destroyed over three million bales of cotton resulting in a cumulative loss of about 1.5 percent to GDP. He said that around 2.364 million …
Indian cotton was once infamously plundered by the British to benefit their finished goods economy back home. The world-famous Dhaka muslin were woven with desi cotton. But while the foreign regime kept the Indian cotton alive, albeit for its own gains, independent India presided over its complete decimation. However, after …
The Bt gene gave cotton farmers freedom from bollworm. Now the weedicide-resistant gene is likely to relieve them of weeds as well. Field trials at eight centres across the country
Characterizing the spatial patterns of gene flow from transgenic crops is challenging, making it difficult to design containment strategies for markets that regulate the adventitious presence of transgenes. Insecticidal Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton is planted on millions of hectares annually and is a potential source of transgene flow.
Bt Cotton (insect-resistant transgenic cotton) is often portrayed as that technological revolution in Indian cotton cultivation which has changed the cotton scenario in India and pushed it to higher yields to make India the second largest producer of Cotton in the world. This brief report seeks to analyse the major …
Long-term occupational exposure to cotton dust containing endotoxin is associated with chronic respiratory symptoms and a more rapid decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 sec (FEV1), but the mechanisms of endotoxin-related effects remain unclear. Shi et al. examined associations between recent and past airborne endotoxin exposures, longitudinal change in …
INDIAN government’s policy to regulate cotton exports to make it available for the domestic textile industry may affect farmers. In a decision that has cotton growers worried, the Centre on September 28 deferred cotton exports from October 1 to November 1. The registration of exports has begun and no duty …
A DROP in demand for organic cotton in the West amidst an increase in output has forced large retailers to cut consumption. With the eco- friendly natural fibre unable to make a qualitative difference, apparel makers are reverting to conventional varieties.
The basic purpose of this manual is to provide the users of data/information on Agricultural Prices and Marketing with a ready?to?use reference guide on methodological aspects of Agricultural Prices and Marketing that facilitate international comparison and help in aggregation of statistics needed to derive meaningful conclusions. Another purpose of this …
When it was launched by the Centre 10 years ago, the Intensive Cotton Development Programme came as a ray of hope for cotton farmers in Punjab. The scheme was meant to enhance production through technology transfer, supply of quality seeds and educating and training the farmers
The problem may be specific to this year alone because of extraordinary circumstances, but it is new phenomenon that has alarmed official circles. It may also cause reduction of 10 to 15 per cent production in the affected acres.
Just two days before trade sanctions were to be imposed in the cotton dispute, Brazil and the United States reached a compromise agreement, which may finally yield the subsidy reforms that Brasilia has been seeking from Washington for nearly a decade. The so-called
* Cotton and paddy crops losses at Rs 71.4 and Rs 56.3bn, respectively * Rice production likely to drop by 27 percent By Sajid Chaudhry ISLAMABAD: Losses to the agriculture sector of the country from the floods have increased to Rs 276 billion against previous estimates of Rs 244.6 billion, …
AIMING to catch up with global competition and India's fibre requirement of the future, the Union Ministry of Textiles put up a draft national fibre policy on its website in June. It has invited comments and suggestions. Though India is the second largest producer of man-made fibre in the world, …
