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 …
No need for alarm; but some Chinese ring bells anyway "WITH grain in our hands there is no need to panic,' according to China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao. But officials worry about how to keep China near self-sufficiency in grain and sheltered from rising world prices. Mr Wen's remarks during …
Global food shortages have taken everyone by surprise. What is to be done? Reuters SAMAKE BAKARY sells rice from wooden basins at Abobote market in the northern suburbs of Abidjan in C
Food prices are causing misery and strife around the world. Radical solutions are needed PICTURES of hunger usually show passive eyes and swollen bellies. The harvest fails because of war or strife; the onset of crisis is sudden and localised. Its burden falls on those already at the margin. Today's …
China on Thursday announced new duties on fertiliser exports in a bid to boost farming output, after Premier Wen Jiaobao said greater efforts were needed to tackle soaring food prices. Wen said more must be done to help the nation's agriculture sector after data was released on Wednesday showing food …
Urgent action to help the world's poorest farmers help themselves would make a significant contribution to tackling the global food crisis in a single growing season, according to Jeffrey Sachs, United Nations development adviser. "In much of the poorest parts of the world, the potential for significant increases in food …
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice addressing the media at her office here on Thursday, said the food scarcity and high prices which have hit the developing and poor countries hardest is a global crisis and the U.S. has taken steps to alleviate the suffering. She said First the …
Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday pledged more money and a new global partnership to bring down food prices - the latest ambitious but ill-defined plan to combat the worldwide crisis. The French president doubled to
The ambitious National Food Security Mission (NFSM) scheme has taken off in Karbi Anglong. As a part of its first experience, transplanting of rice under the NFSM scheme has been started in several areas in the district. Especially 10 hectare of paddy field of Langparpan and Borjan areas have been …
Soaring food prices have surfaced as a big concern in the delicately poised agriculture negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). But because any WTO deal will have an impact only in the long term, the Geneva talks will not offer a solution to the immediate crisis, diplomats and officials …
Malaysia announced a $1.3 billion-plan on Saturday to boost food security by building stockpiles, raising rice output and reining in inflation. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the government would ensure the country was self-sufficient in rice, a staple food for its 27 million people. A third of Malaysia's rice …
The latest data on foodgrains production released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, estimate that wheat production in India would fall by 1 million tonnes to 74.81 million tonnes compared with the previous estimates. Though it is not a marked decline compared with the previous estimates, what is …
SPECIAL AGRICULTURAL ZONE It is easier to pay integrated attention to natural resources conservation, eco-farming and small farmer-friendly commerce in SAZs, with the aim of strengthening the income security of farm families. D. K. Roy Contrary to many policy pundits playing down the spectre of the looming foodgrains shortage that …
The Philippines' population has grown over two percent each year since 2000, the government said on Thursday, but experts said Asia's biggest Catholic nation was unlikely to change policies to slow the increase. The country has one of the highest population growth rates in the region, with at least three …
The use of antibiotics and other anti-microbial agents throughout the food chain contributes to the growth of resistant bacteria that can be passed on to humans through food, EU's food agency said on Thursday. The resistance of bacteria has become a growing concern as anti-microbials become less effective in fighting …
Bad agricultural policies and changing eating habits in developing nations are primarily to blame for rising food prices, not biofuel production as some critics claim, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday. Environmentalists and humanitarian groups have stepped up campaigning against biofuels, arguing they divert production away from food and …
EARLIER this week, junior food minister Akhilesh Prasad Singh, during a TV discussion on soaring food prices, maintained that India had rice and wheat stocks above the April buffer norm and that FAO chief Yumkella's global food crisis assessment had relevance only to Africa. Wake up and smell the coffee, …
Given our large arable land and favourable climate, and rising global food prices, a proper policy framework could ensure that India becomes the world's food bowl, says Prashant Goyal FOOD inflation is an area of concern today. The rising prices of agricultural commodities have forced the government to come up …
FOOD and beverage companies will no longer be able to get away lightly if found guilty of adulteration. The government is setting up a regulator and putting in place stringent rules for food and beverage manufacturers. The watchdog would start functioning from May. Should any mishap occur due to the …
FOR the first time, India has given delivery at Kandla for sugar contracts traded on London's Euronext-Liffe exchange, the world's top market place for sugar. This opens a new route for exports and risk management by domestic sugar companies. With 24 million tonnes of sugar lying in godowns, finding the …
Unwilling to commit to a definite view on the fate of forward trading in essential commodities, food minister Sharad Pawar told the Rajya Sabha that "there are a lot of conflicting views'. Mr Pawar's vacillation comes in the wake of indication that the Abhijit Sen Committee is likely to take …
