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 …
BHUBANESWAR: Kharif operations like transplantation and deweeding of paddy crops have been considerably delayed in many parts of southern and western Orissa due to erratic monsoon. Although the average rainfall of the State in July was 73 per cent more than normal, farmers of southern and western districts were sitting …
LUCKNOW: The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) may not be known much for going green. But, the nodal agency for constructing memorials carved out of red sandstone, has finally decided to add some green cover to the city. And so, ambitious bosses have set up a target -- plant one lakh …
Long infamous for heroin, opium, and other poppy products, the Golden Triangle, the mountainous, thickly forested intersection of Laos, Myanmar (formerly Burma), and China, is now becoming known for another plant: Hevea brasiliensis, the Par
LUCKNOW: The city is not just losing its tree cover fast but also the scope for regeneration of the lost cover. Endless construction and ever increasing urban pressure has hardly left places where trees could be planted. In fact, at many of the places where trees have been cut this …
Show me the money: the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) seems to have perfectly blended this saying into their always-wishful nature. After making hue and cry over the reduction of funds, related to infrastructure development works, the civic body has now demanded release of extra funds to the tune of …
NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit launched the annual plantation drive in the Capital from her 3 Motilal Nehru Place official residence on Tuesday in the presence of a large number of school children who also planted a variety of saplings. Speaking on the occasion, Ms. Dikshit exhorted the children …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has decided to plant five crore saplings in the State during the year. This was decided at a high-level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik yesterday at the Secretariat. The saplings will be planted on 1.15 lakh hectare under various schemes of the Forest …
BHUBANESWAR: A whopping 25 lakh saplings were planted across Orissa on Tuesday as part of the afforestation drive by the Forest Department. The plantation activities were held across 205 forest locations in the State. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had announced it at a Vanomahotsav function yesterday. Public, school and college …
LUCKNOW: The week-long Van Mahotsav would come to a close on July 7. The Green Run-2009 will mark its formal conclusion on Tuesday. The run will start from KD Singh Babu stadium at 7.00am on the day and end at GPO Crossing. The mahotsav is organised every first week of …
LUCKNOW: Late arrival and now weak monsoon conditions have hit farmers hard. If the same trend continued for a weak, it is feared that the Kharif crop yield would drop by 20-30% this season. Adding to the woes of farmers is the poor power supply in the rural belt and …
In an attempt to encourage people to plant saplings on private land, the Forest department has instituted the Kanshi Ram Conservation award. Forest Minister Fateh Bahadur Singh announced the institution of the award at the inauguration of the Van Mahotsav at Vardaan Khand of Gomti Nagar here on Wednesday. The …
In a slow but definite transformation in farming patterns in the state, farmers are increasingly opting for direct seed plantation that is conducive to growing rice in fields without water puddles or with a minimum level of water. Scores of farmers in Amritsar, Ludhiana, Gurdaspur and Patiala districts have reportedly …
BHUBANESWAR: Mission Shakti is all set to launch a plantation drive in individual households in partnership with the Horticulture Department from July. It has been planned to raise specifically drumstick, papaya and lemon plants through members of the women self-help groups. The three plant varieties are chosen for the high …
The State Government will bear the cost of diesel used by the farmers for pumping water to their paddy fields for plantation purposes, in view of the present dry weather condition. This was announced by Revenue Minister Dr Bhumidhar Barman while taking part in the debate on supplementary demand for …
Rs 3,500-Cr Support Package Likely To Be Announced Independent Of The Budget THE government is readying a package of concessions worth around Rs 3,500 crore for the plantation sector as it looks to lift it out of a morass of rising input costs, a high debt burden and falling productivity …
Villagers of Basarikatte in the taluk demanded a ban on the spraying of dreaded pesticide Endosulphan in coffee plantations. Planters in and around Basarikatte are spraying Endosulphan to prevent coffee borer attack. Meanwhile, villagers are anxious about the possibilities of water pollution through the spray of Endosulphan. A demand for …
Iqbal Singh sits in grief beside the paddy plants that have completely dried in his field at Amirgarh village. A drought-like situation has arisen because of no rain and massive power cuts. A farmer sits at his paddy field which has dried up owing to no electricity and no rains …
