Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and the impacts of climate change are clear. 2024 was the warmest year on record for Europe. Storms were often severe and flooding widespread, claiming at least 335 lives and affecting an estimated 413 000 people. During the year, there was a striking east-west contrast …
While the record wheat harvest this year appears to be staring at an open sky in the wake of massive shortage in storage facilities, Food Minister K V Thomas has decided to hold consultation on controlling waste of food at social functions, ahead of monsoons.
Oct. 6: Irked at a series of objections including legal tangles coming in the way for execution of the Indira Sagar (Polavaram) project, the local MP, Mr Vundavalli Arunkumar, warned of an imminent food crisis and transformation of the Godavari and Krishna delta areas into dry areas. The MP said …
GUWAHATI, Aug 19: Assam and other northeastern States seem to be entering a phase of severe shortage of essential commodities as the Contractor Federation of FCI (North East Zone) has categorically said that its indefinite strike will continue until a positive response comes from the authorities to the demands of …
With the inflation rate of pulses still in double digits for more than a year, the government today said the supply of pulses would remain a critical problem for another two to three years. The government is expecting an increase of two million tonnes (mt) in production of pulses in …
ROHIT KHANNA Kolkata: Faced with acute shortage in supply of foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS), all fair price shop owners in the state have decided to down their shutters from September 20 for an indefinite period. Three year ago, ration shops were gutted and many dealers had to …
Potential farm sector: A file photo of female labourers sorting mangoes at a fruit market in Allahabad. Saurab Bhat The recent spike in world food prices has further widened the gap between the developed and the developing economies. While, over 70 per cent of the world's population resides in poor …
After Manipur, it is now the turn of Arunachal Pradesh to complain about scarcity of food items, with the State Government complaining about irregular Public Distribution System (PDS) in the State. A five-member delegation comprising State Food and Civil Supplies Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Tenga Byalling and Lok Sabha MP …
ITANAGAR, May 14: With the PDS carriage contractors threatening to quit service if their pending bills are not cleared by the FCI, Arunachal Pradesh is in the verge facing an acute food crisis, which is already in an alarming situation according to reports. However, efforts are on to mitigate the …
JAIPUR: A Dutch expert on agriculture has warned India of a food crisis unless the country makes new investments in the sector and induces young individuals to take up farming. India will have to speed up its food production otherwise it will not remain self-sufficient in food in a few …
The price of below-cost sales of FCI wheat stock has to be juxtaposed with the relief in inflation A Seshan / April 17, 2010, 0:25 IST On the eve of the marketing season (April-June) in 2007, 2008 and 2009, I wrote about the crisis facing the government in production, procurement …
For Samarin seeing a tiger is as casual as her monthly sightings of the ration store supplier. “They come sometimes but as long as we mind our own business, they don’t do any harm,” she says, working in her small farm in the middle of the forest, her baby slung …
K P Prabhakaran Nair Monsanto devotes an annual budget of $10 million to harassing, intimidating, suing -and in some cases bankrupting -American farmers over alleged improper use of its patented seeds. This will become the norm for India as well TODAY, Monsanto is the virtual king of genetically modified food …
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 …
Food prices in the immediate future can be controlled only through large imports. Wheat stocks are adequate but rice stocks are not. There will be a fiscal cost because global prices are above domestic prices, but this will not be above 1 per cent of central government expenditure. This may …
The main reason for the current surge in food prices is the supply shock due to the drought in 2009 and the carry-over effect of the low growth of food production in 2008-09. As the frequency of such shocks is expected to rise, India needs to have an effective food …
The Central Statistical Organisation's advance estimate of a decline in the agricultural sector's output in 2009-10 by a mere 0.2% is a highly optimistic forecast. An analysis of the numbers in the latest estimates of foodgrain output and a comparison of output/GDP changes in the drought years of 2002-03 and …
CHENNAI: Top scientists and policymakers from leading national and international institutes on Wednesday issued a declaration calling on all nations to prioritise conservation of the earth
CHENNAI: For every one degree rise in temperature, 6 million tonnes of wheat will be lost in India, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN estimates. How do you feed a hungry, growing world population with climate change knocking at the door? Scientists, policy makers and researchers from 23 …
Pune With decreased food grain production in Maharashtra and around 80 lakh farmers quitting the occupation over the last two decades, the state is in for a severe food crisis, said senior journalist P Sainath here on Thursday. Sainath was interacting with journalism students and reporters at a programme organised …
