As climate change intensifies, it is imperative for policymakers to address the escalating loss and damage it inflicts on vulnerable communities in developing countries. In India's Maharashtra state, these impacts are forcing rural families into life-altering decisions and migrations to work in sugarcane fields, where exploitative practices by contractors, including …
A west Champaran-based sugar firm, whose managing director is the son-in-law of Sahaswan (UP) BSP MLA D P Yadav, is under probe for taking agricultural loans in the names of 2,055 Bagaha farmers and diverting government grants and subsidies worth about Rs 10 crore meant for them. The farmers learnt …
They repay their loan to the labour contractor by working in Gujarat sugarcane fields It is three in the afternoon. In Nandurbar's Akkalkuwa taluk, Sangubai Wadwi is squatting near a truck, waiting for her family's turn to board it. Her two children, aged three and five, are also braving the …
Decision on rabi MSP soon: The Cabinet is expected to take a decision on the MSP of rabi crops, including wheat, soon. Sharad Pawar said his ministry had already forwarded its recommendations on the basis of suggestions given by the CACP. “It (decision on MSP) is expected at the earliest,” …
Floods in Pakistan have damaged at least 880,000 hectares of standing crops, including rice, maize, cotton, sugar cane, fruit orchards and vegetables, which represent about 3.7 percent of total national crop area, the United Nations' food agency said on Tuesday, citing preliminary official estimates. "Damage to the current paddy crop …
Brazil claims to have clamped down on slash and burn tactics, slave labour and links to deforestation as it seeks to gain foothold in Europe’s lucrative biofuels market.
Sugarcane is a high water-requiring (with an average of 20 megalitres of water/ha) crop and 80% of its water requirement is met through groundwater. The Central Ground Water Board has estimated that only 162 billion cubic metres (BCM)/yr of groundwater is available for future irrigation, out of which around 40 …
Existing targets for biofuels and other forms of bioenergy are based on flawed carbon accounting and should be revised downwards, a draft report by a panel of 19 top European scientists showed. "It is widely assumed that bioenergy is inherently carbon-neutral -- however this assumption is flawed," said the Scientific …
With the rapid growth of biofuel production and consumption and the proliferation of policy decisions supporting this expansion, concerns about the biofuel sector’s environmental and social impacts are increasing. Consequently, a range of actors – among them governments, multilateral institutions, nongovernmental organisations and multistakeholder industry groups – have created sustainability …
Lax trade restrictions and high sugar prices should allow the United States to overtake Brazil in ethanol exports during the second half of 2011, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday. During the first five months of 2011 U.S. ethanol exports more than doubled from the same period last …
LUCKNOW: After an all time high wheat production in 2010-11, the state may witness record kharif production in the current season. Thanks to good rainfall in monsoon, as per initial estimates, the area under cultivation of sugarcane and kharif crop and paddy has increased by 6-8% in comparison to the …
Already feeling the pinch of food insecurity, the agriculture sector of Pakistan has to face a loss of Rs 67 billion, as recent monsoon flooding has damaged standing crops in most of Lower Sindh. Well-placed sources told Business Recorder that the recent monsoon spell has caused huge loss to Kharif …
To save the sugar industry from death, the government should remove levy obligation immediately, buy sugar in the open market and promote a futures market Sugar is the largest agro-based industry located in rural India that directly contributes to rural economic development. It is one of the most environment-friendly industries …
The chairman of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), CP Gautam, on Sunday said more than 60% of distilleries in the state do not comply with pollution control laws, becoming a major source of soil pollution. He was delivering the keynote address at a day-long workshop on ‘Zero liquid discharge …
Question of repealing the law to be decided after consulting experts The State government is not going to notify the date of enforcement of the Tamil Nadu State Agricultural Council Act, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa told the Assembly on Tuesday. Intervening in the debate on the demands for grants to the …
India's monsoon rains were 14 percent above normal in the week to Aug 11, improving sharply from 22 percent below average the previous week, the weather office said on Thursday, boosting the production outlook for summer crops such cane and cotton. India's June to September monsoon rains are crucial to …
The Department is also planning to go in for renewal of vegetation The Coimbatore Circle of the Forest Department is embarking on an ambitious project to improve the wildlife habitat in reserve forests and protected areas by ensuring availability of fodder and water. Conservator of Forests, Coimbatore Circle, V.T. Kandasamy, …
LUCKNOW: Following the success of application of information technology in sugarcane plantation in the season 2010-11, the cane development department has now decided to introduce Global Positioning System (GPS) to survey cane acreage in 2011-12. The move will help in accurate estimation of crop production, will save time, reduce expenditure …
Around 1,400 delegates from across the country turned up for the 10th joint convention of sugar technologists organised by the Deccan Sugar Technologists Association (DSTA) and Sugar Technologists Association of India at the Pune Marriott Hotel. An exhibition has been organised at the venue with 90 stalls showcasing technological developments …
