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 …
THE Central Potato Research Institute conducted field trial for genetically modified potato at its Jalandhar research station between October 2010 and February 2011. But the Punjab government failed to monitor it. As per the Environment Protection Act (EPA) of 1986, it is the responsibility of the State Biotechnology Coordination Committees …
Lucknow Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar's concern over storage of foodgrain, especially wheat and paddy, and allowing their exports is well placed, especially with the country's third largest wheat producing state, Uttar Pradesh standing on the brink of a record bumper wheat production this year. Estimating a production of 30 million …
Sitting over estimates of a bumper crop this year, the government is once again faced with the storage problem. In focus is the rural godown scheme of the agriculture ministry, which is not working well in many states. According to the second advance estimates, production of foodgrains during 2010-11 is …
The prosperous apple belts of the state, Jubbal-Kotkhai and Kotgarh in Shimla district, are set to get a major boost in controlled-atmospheric storage of apples, with the Agricultural & Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) sanctioning Rs 11.5 crore for the project. APEDA is a body under the Ministry …
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has brought cheer to companies wanting to set up cold chains, or refrigerated warehouses, by according infrastructure status to post-harvest storage, making it easy for the sector to secure much-needed foreign investment. The budget for 2011-12 also slashed basic customs duty on specified agricultural machinery, including …
Subsidy to increase substantially if NAC recommendations are incorporated into the Food Security Bill The total food subsidy bill will balloon to . 1,10,600 crore if entitlements recommended by the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council are incorporated into the Food Security Bill, the Ministry of Food And Public Distribution has …
Raiganj, Feb. 13: Ten thousand quintals of potato worth over Rs 1. 5 crore have rotted in a private cold storage, forcing the owner of the facility to dump half the stock along the highway at Panisala near here yesterday.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday pulled up the Food Ministry and Planning Commission for the lack of urgency in augmenting foodgrain storage capacity despite the government having to face embarrassment over instances of grain lying in the open and rotting. Mukherjee aired his exasperation with the slow pace of augmenting …
Even though the UPA-II government still grappling over the proposed National Food Security bill, the food minister KV Thomas has already started to worked out modalities for augmenting procurement and storage capacities of Food Corporation of India (FCI)
Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal has sought immediate intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for putting in place an effective institutional mechanism for smooth central procurement of foodgrains. Badal on Wednesday called on the PM and apprised him of the serious problems being faced by the state government on …
With prolonged cold weather condition prevailing in the key growing areas of northern and central India during the last few months, the country's wheat production is expected to match last year's record production of 81 million tonne, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said on Wednesday .
Onion and garlic are very important commodities consumed in India in the form of spices and condiments. Unlike other vegetables, they are required daily in the kitchen and therefor augmentation of daily supply in the market at reasonable prices is very essential.
THE prices of persihables such as onions for which the retail consumer is paying 40 a kilo would come down to 22 in cities such as Delhi by this week, said KV Thomas, minister of state for consumer affairs, food and public distribution. He said a meeting was slated between …
The simultaneous occurrence of high food inflation and large foodgrain stocks in our granaries has been a matter of concern. The aim of this paper is to understand the fundamentals of our foodgrain market and policy that lead to this situation and to suggest policies for rectifying this. The central …
KOLKATA, 23 JAN: Seventy people fell ill and 5,000 people were affected following leakage of ammonia gas from a cold storage at Nagerbazar in Dum Dum today. Panic gripped residents and many fled the locality. Around 5,000 people were affected and some of them were admitted to a local hospital. …
KOLKATA, 24 JAN: The leaking valves of the cold storage, which emitted ammonia gas affecting about 3000 people in Nager Bazar area in the northern outskirts of the city, were yet to be fully plugged this morning. People in the area are still in a state of panic even 12 …
Hazaribagh, Jan. 19: The state government will open 583 foodgrain banks at villages across Jharkhand and provide grains to every below poverty line (BPL) family immediately. Food and civil supplies minister Mathura Prasad Mahto said this today after a review of the district under North Chotanagpur commissionerate, where he instructed …
