Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
New Delhi, 13 Feb: A government committee has recommended setting up of National Crop Statistics Centre (NCSC) for meticulous data collection on diverse crops, in collaboration with the departments of Agriculture and Space. Primary responsibility of NCSC will be to provide reliable and timely estimates at state and national levels …
Efforts to boost agricultural productivity in the country must be seen in the context of climate change, a key agenda in the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2012-2017), said K. Kasturirangan, member of the Planning Commission. Pincered While agricultural productivity must increase by 2 per cent a year if it has …
The government has approved Rs 350 crore scheme to study impact of climate change on agriculture and reduce production losses. Approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, the main objective of new plan scheme
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala needs a long-term intervention strategy based on predictive modelling to deal with the impact of climate change, agriculture scientist Kadambot H.M. Siddique said here on Friday. Addressing a gathering of teachers and students at the College of Agriculture, Vellayani, Professor Siddique, who holds a chair in Agriculture at …
Soaring temperature had led to incidences of fruit damage AFALL in production of oranges across major belts of Punjab, Maharashtra and Rajasthan has led to prices rising between 40% and 45% and touching 290-350 for a carton of 10 kg. The one bright spot, literally, is that growers in the …
CUTTACK: The impact of population pressure and shrinking land and water resources on agriculture notwithstanding, climate change has emerged as one of the most potent challenges prompting emergency moves by experts, policy-makers and scientists to face the unfolding dangers. The signs are ominous with changing climate and seasonal patterns in …
Overexploitation of groundwater coupled with rising temperatures may push agriculture to stagnation, says a satellite study mapping yields from 1982 to 2006 Amit Bhattacharya | TNN The monsoon bounty this year is expected to put the smiley back on the agriculture output graph. The government has quickly announced a target …
Jamshedpur, July 11: A weak monsoon has prompted Birsa Agriculture University (BAU), Kanke, to draw up a contingency crop plan. It has directed farmers to sow short-duration paddy and other kharif crops such as maize, urad bean, toria, mustard and oilseeds, which can be harvested within 75-90 days.
THE food inflation might be worrying the consumer, but apple prices are currently 35-40% less than the previous year, hovering at Rs 35-50 a kg in the retail market. Apart from the low quality of fruit, the availability of the mango crop in the market is also curtailing the price …
SAMBALPUR: Good rains as yet, the kharif season in Sambalpur district is likely to be affected due to shortage of paddy seed. As per the available data, paddy will be cultivated over 1,04,500 hectares during the forthcoming kharif season. It was only 99,533 hectares last year. The Agriculture Department, to …
SAMBALPUR: In order to tide over prevailing food crisis, Agriculture Department has embarked on an ambitious plan to boost farm output in the district during the ensuing kharif. As per available data, paddy will be cultivated on 1,04,500 hectares of land during the forthcoming kharif against 99,533 hectares last time. …
In the peak of June as tourists make a beeline for the interior villages of Kinnaur and Lahaul-Spiti districts of Himachal Pradesh, locals have no time to chat with them or pose for pictures.
Due to reduced yield, harvesting season in Ferozepur has shrunk to just 12 days from standard 30 days. This was revealed by Ferozepur DC Kamal Kishore Yadav while taking stock of the procurement in the grain markets. In the next five days, the grain markets in the entire district will …
Third consecutive season of crop loss for farmers; agriculture dept prepares relief plan Yet another season of dejection stares at the farmers here as they prepare to harvest the Rabi crop, which has been badly hit by drought. According to estimates of the agriculture department, the production is likely to …
Yields Of Rice, Other Cereals Could Be Hit New Delhi: In an ominous sign of climate change hitting home, India has seen accelerated warming in the past few decades and the temperature-rise pattern is now increasingly in line with global warming trends. The most up-to-date study of temperatures in India, …
In this study we use long-term satellite, climate, and crop observations to document the spatial distribution of the recent stagnation in food grain production affecting the water-limited tropics (WLT), a region where 1.5 billion people live and depend on local agriculture that is constrained by chronic water shortages. Overall, our …
