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 …
Cotton leaf curl virus, a deadly pest, has badly hit the standing cotton crop across the country due to the use of uncertified and illegal BT cottonseeds, growers told Business Recorder on Thursday. The situation is very alarming and indicates likely occurrence of a huge cotton crisis in the country, …
The country may face drought-like situation this Rabi (October-March) as heavy water withdrawals from dams draw down steeply without replenishment because of exceptionally low river flows. The Indus River System Authority (Irsa), which is meeting in Islamabad on Friday (today) to firm up its Rabi forecast, is expected to announce …
Pakistan can benefit from 60 years long Chinese research in agriculture sector for superior crop varieties to meet their ever increasing national food grain requirements. Leader of the 4-member Chinese private sector delegation Dr John Liu talking to Vice Chancellor, Punjab University Professor Mujahid Kamran here Thursday, during their visit …
Farmers have demanded of the Punjab government to declare the district a calamity-hit area due to the heavy damages caused to the cotton crop by recent massive virus attack. In a meeting held at the grain market here on Wednesday, farmers and progressive landlords, including former MPA Syed Tabish Alwari, …
While previous research has analyzed the impacts of Bt cotton in India, most available studies are based only on one or two years of data. We analyze the technology
While news reports and disaster movies remind us about tipping points for Arctic melt and sea level rise, some things closer to home get less attention. Take food supply: new modelling studies show that there are climate tipping points here too, beyond which crop yields will collapse. Wolfram Schlenker at …
1/3rd Of Workforce Below 14 Yrs Of Age; Remaining Under 18 Yrs Fall Prey To Rape & Sexual Abuse While Being Forced To Work In Fields Akhilesh Kumar Singh & Rao Jaswant Singh | TNN Upla-Bilia village, Rajasthan: It was on the night of August 17 that Punjilal Ahuri received …
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today assured the Prime Minister that the state would meet its grain production target for the national food pool. However, the state and its farmers paid a heavy price to maintain the crop due to unprecedented dry spell, he said. Badal said the immediate …
Pink bollworm (PBW, Pectinophora gossypiella Saund.) is a pest of economic importance in cotton producing countries. Earlier results of host-plant resistance to the PBW indicated races of Gossypium hirsutum L. and some wild species including Gossypium thurberi Tod. which are resistant to PBW. Hence prebreeding efforts were made to transfer …
Chinese government has agreed to send its agricultural experts to Pakistan for the control of Cotton leaf curl virus that has extensively hit cotton crop in Punjab and Sindh. Three experts from China have been invited to visit Pakistan to support the ongoing research against the virus, the chairman Pakistan …
The debate against genetically modified (GM) seeds in the country has been going on for quite some time and the article by Kavitha Kuruganti (KK henceforth) on
The long dry spell this monsoon has forced farmers to alter their crop pattern and switch over to the kharif cotton crop in several parts of Gujarat, particularly in Saurashtra, which is known as
Safety studies are essential before GM crops are approved It is with great relish that Mathura Rai, director of the Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (IIVR), recalls being taken to a Bt corn farm by his hosts at Michigan State University last year.
Genetic Crops: Foods In The Pipeline Cotton Status: Being grown in over 80% of cotton acreage Impact: Cottonseed oil has already entered the food chain Brinjal Status: Large-scale field trials completed in 11 locations Impact: Data from field trials being reviewed, could get green signal soon Mustard Status: Slipped off …
The impact of genetically modified (GM) crops on the poor in developing countries is still the subject of controversy. While previous studies have examined direct productivity effects of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton and other GM crops, little is known about wider socioeconomic outcomes. Use a microeconomic modelling approach and comprehensive …
