Judgment of the National Green Tribunal, May 27, 2025 in the matter of Sumit Saini Vs Shree Ram Steel Industries & Others. Sumit Saini, resident of village Damla, District Yamuna Nagar, Haryana had sent a letter petition dated May 14, 2022 to the NGT. The application said that around 25 …
LUCKNOW: The ministry of consumer affairs and public distribution has allocated of 5.28 lakh tonnes per month of wheat and rice to Uttar Pradesh for the fiscal year 2011-12. The assigned foodgrains have been made available to the department of food and civil supplies for distribution through the public distribution …
Good monsoon, higher MSP help The country is heading for a record foodgrains production in the 2010-11 crop year at 241.56 million tonnes, with wheat and pulses output touching an all time high of 85.93 million tonnes and 18.09 million tonnes respectively. Union Agriculture Secretary P. K. Basu attributed the …
Andhra farmers shun growing paddy this kharif in absence of buyers, storage space. Analysts say this perhaps the first time in the countyr that paddy farmers have resorted to such a drastic step, that too in a green revolution belt.
Achanta, a small village in Andhra Pradesh, hit the headlines in 1967 with a record rice yield in the kharif or monsoon crop season. It was the time of the Green Revolution. N Subba Rao, a farmer from the village, harvested three tonnes of paddy from just one kilogramme of …
Among the missing or grossly inadequate infrastructure support facilities for the rural economy, particularly for enabling its farming segment to attain healthy growth, highly conspicuous inadequacy of warehouses in the rural areas capable of providing safe and sound storage for the farm would surely ranks high.
In India, the horticulture sector with a production of over 230 million tonnes of fruits and vegetables over an area of 20 million hectares is currently a significant contributor to agricultural GDP of the country. But its contribution to farmer's income, livelihood, nutrition, export earnings, ecology and equity does not …
Against the backdrop of reports of rotting foodgrains across the country, the Government on Wednesday claimed it is taking all the measures to address the storage capacity concerns. Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, KV Thomas said his Ministry has taken initiatives to …
New Delhi Grain procurement by the government could see a quantum jump in coming years if the proposed Food Security Bill, which assures distribution of subsidised grain to large section of population, is enacted. Food minister KV Thomas on Wednesday said the annual foodgrain procurement could reach more than 60 …
While the record wheat procurement this year has made the government realise the need to have more storage capacity, a projection for the implementation of the proposed food security law in the last two years of the UPA-II indicates that the government stocks may fall well below buffer norms at …
Disruption in power supply and lack of awareness among the farmers have made the existing cold storage facilities of the State ineffective, despite there being a growing demand from the farming community and the intelligentsia for more such facilities. The State has so far two cold storage facilities. One cold …
New Delhi: India could be facing a crisis soon if immediate steps are not taken to ease the burden on godowns bulging with grain stocks as the current storage capacity of 62.8 million tonnes may prove inadequate, officials say. The government had record rice and wheat stocks of 65.6 million …
A good monsoon and bumper wheat harvest is in sight, but the Food Ministry seems worried. Reason: most states are not coming forward to lift the 20 lakh tonnes of additional foodgrain allocated by the ministry to ease the storage space crunch in the country. So, Food Minister K V …
Gearing for the challenge of implementing the proposed Food Security Bill, Union Minister of State for Food and Public Distribution K.V. Thomas has decided to hold a conference of Chief Ministers to seek their views and cooperation. Mr. Thomas toldThe Hindu that he had made a presentation of the proposed …
The work of storage of wheat procured under minimum support price scheme in the State has now reached in last phase. With maximum 7 lakh 31 thousand metric tonne procurement of wheat, Hoshangabad district is nearing the completion of task of storage of wheat in next couple of days. So …
High-tech seeds and innovations in chemicals and farming will not be enough to solve looming food shortages for the world, according to a report issued Tuesday by a committee formed by food and chemicals conglomerate DuPont. Billions of dollars in private investment, government incentives and charitable work must be funneled …
As food stocks reach record levels, the food ministry has decided to move grains faster from producing to non-producing states, make additional allocation under various social welfare schemes and create more storage space. Total stocks of grains (wheat and rice) in the central pool as on May 1 was estimated …
KULITHALAI: Farmers should use the latest technology such as solar drier, polyethylene bags, pest trapper for storage of agricultural produce particularly paddy, said resource persons and storage scientists at the inauguration of the two-day training on imparting storage techniques to farmers, here on Tuesday. The training organised by the Central …
GRAIN traders along with farmers are looking forward to the resumption of wheat exports after a gap of four years as India heads for record production of the grain. India, the biggest wheat producer after China, had banned the crop’s export in 2007 to ensure food security. In the last …
