Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
In his latest pre-poll bonanza for the poor, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has decided to provide 25 kg of rice a month to all the families living Below the Poverty Line (BPL) at Rs 2 per kg. At a high-level meeting chaired by the Chief Minister on Monday it was …
There is no proper implementation of schemes for people's welfare as announced by the government. As a result several problems are raising their head. This year there has been a record purchase of wheat at the mandis on support price. However, the farmers who could not sell their wheat in …
The Meghalaya government today admitted a nexus between school managing committees and distributors of foodgrain which has badly affected implementation of the Mid-day Meal Scheme (MDM). The government made the admission after a review meeting of the scheme in north-eastern states with Central Government officials here. Parliamentary Secretary Mass and …
Nidhi Nath Srinivas NEW DELHI THE government may once again start selling wheat to the middle class. Nervous at the climbing grain prices, there is a proposal to pump in 30 lakh tonnes into the market through ration shops that would be meant just for the abovepoverty-line (APL) families. With …
Disunity and recrimination marked the start of France's European Union presidency on Tuesday as Nicolas Sarkozy exchanged accusations with the European Commission over world trade talks. The French president denounced Peter Mandelson, EU trade commissioner, in a television interview on Monday evening for allegedly selling out EU farmers
TAMLUK: Flood victims caught two ration dealers red-handed while they were illegally transporting food grains for selling in the open-market today. The ration dealers were allegedly enjoying CPI-M patronage. This comes at a time when thousands of people are suffering from improper distribution of relief materials due to the devastating …
This study looks at the approaches of different private, voluntary standards in coffee supply chains on controlling the use of hazardous pesticides and moving to safer pest management. It draws some conclusions from the different schemes and highlights issues for private and public sector stakeholders.
The high-level conference at Rome was called to find a way out of the global food crisis. A series of consultations with experts preceded this important event that went to show that the UN had all good intentions. The good intentions unfortunately did not translate into good policy decisions that …
REUTERS World Bank President Robert B Zoellick holds up a bag of rice and a loaf of bread at a news conference in Washington The un acknowledges that in the past few decades governments and international financial institutions have not paid any attention to agriculture. Now the un, states and …
The final press conference of the meet was postponed by an hour and a half because there were disagreements on the final document to be read by DG Diouf. According to fao sources, the dispute was to do with biofuels and the liberalization of agricultural trade. The delay did not …
AKINWUMI A ADESINA Vice-president, policy and partnerships,Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Though AGRA says it is supporting small farmers, Annan held a separate meeting with private players, including the International SeedFederation and the International Fertilizer Association , and not with civil society groups Green revolution in Africa: The …
NILOTPAL BASU The United Progressive Alliance (upa) government completed four years on May 22. Four years in government is a significant achievement for any coalition, more so if the coalition is in minority in the Lok Sabha and its principal party
the run-up to the high-level conference on food security in Rome promised a substantial shift in agricul-tural outlook, given host Food and Agricultural Organization
This paper discusses the various factors that have been identified as responsible for the current global crisis in the availability of food and for the rise in prices of cereals. It argues that the crisis is different from the ones in the 1960s and 1970s in that there is now …
The inflation in food prices of the early 1970s that arose out of excess demand for cereals disappeared in later years not because of any significant supply augmentation, but because it was substituted by an income deflation on the working people, including the peasantry, over large tracts of the world. …
This paper attempts to analyse the current global crisis in the availability and prices of rice by drawing upon the long-term developments in the rice market. The instability and thinness in the world rice markets are shown to be mainly due to the predominantly precautionary export policies of major exporting …
