The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
The ministry of environment and forests, for the first time has chalked out comprehensive effluent standard norms for the rubber industry across all product categories. According to official sources this measure will check the pollution problem arising from rubber parks coming up in the country. While one was situated only …
- National Bamboo Mission takes a back seat, thanks to transit permit on harvest Ranchi, May 3: Teeming bamboo groves could well swing towards state farmers, but it is the forest department that holds sway over the cash crop. Since the launch of the National Bamboo Mission in Jharkhand in …
The Integrated Land and Ecosystem Management Project is being implemented by the Forest Department in Madhya Pradesh with the cooperation of Global Environmental Facility. The project is being implemented in nine forest divisions of Betul, Chhindwara, Umaria, Sidhi and Singrauli districts. The five-year project will be implemented till the year …
Mendha-Lekha, a remote village in the Maoist-affected Gadchiroli district of eastern Maharashtra, has become the first in the country where tribals have been given the right to sell bamboo harvested from the surrounding forests, an official said. The villagers, numbering around 3,000, attended the function Wednesday when village head Devaji …
After a long battle with the Forest Department, this village in a remote, Naxal-affected part of the state on Thursday became the first village in the country to become eligible to own, cut, use and sell bamboo
Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh, along with Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, on Wednesday launched a programme giving tribals right to harvest bamboo as a forest produce in a tribal village here. Ramesh and Chavan handed over transit passes to tribals of Lekha Mendha village thus according them …
Mendha Lekha village in Naxal-infested Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra will become the first in the country to get the right to harvest and sell bamboo after 150 years. The right to harvest and sell bamboo was taken away by the British government over 150 years ago under the Indian Forest …
Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh, who is all set to flag off harvesting of bamboo by villagers under the new Forest Rights Act, is facing severe embarrassment from the Maharashtra government which has threatened to arrest those who do so. Ramesh is all set to kick off …
New Delhi: The forest bureaucracy has taken on environment minister Jairam Ramesh and Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan to defend its turf. Despite the two planning to attend the first ever sale of bamboo by a village in India on April 27 in Mendha-Lekha of Gadchiroli under the Forest Rights …
The Environment Ministry is moving ahead with its efforts to ensure a minimum support price for minor forest produce such as bamboo and tendu leaves. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has reiterated his ministry
BHUBANESWAR: The Assembly amended the Orissa Forest Act, 1972, and raised the offence compounding ceiling to Rs 5,000, up from Rs 100. The Act empowered forest officers to compound certain offences and stipulated that no offence shall be compounded if the market value of the forest produce involved exceeded Rs …
MUMBAI: Alphonso, the king of mangoes, has fallen victim to climate change. The state government's preliminary estimate is that nearly 80% of the mango crop has been destroyed, said agriculture minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil. "The trees flowered far in excess of everyone's expectations . The devastation has taken us by surprise. …
The impending ease of restrictions on bamboo will be a dream come true for crores of people belonging to forest dwelling communities, artisans and crasftsmen in the country for whom it is a traditional source of subsistence. Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh communicated a set of guidelines to …
The Planning Commission is pushing for fixing of a minimum support price (MSP) for forest products, including bamboo, as an effective anti-naxal strategy, hoping that increased income levels would address at least part of the disenchantment prevalent among the tribal communities. As of now, the central government has fixed MSPs …
In an effort to wean away tribals from the Maoists, the Environment Ministry is pushing for a minimum support price for minor forest produce like bamboo and tendu patta. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is taking up the matter with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. A minimum support price (MSP) for minor …
The State forest department and 12,000 van panchyats comprising over one lakh manpower will jointly control the wild fires in this season. Though the forest department has already been using high-tech satellite services and state -of-the-art risk assessment danger rating system to contain the forest fires and van panchayat employees …
New Delhi: The environment and forests ministry took half a step towards ending the monopoly of the forest department over the Rs 10,000 crore annual bamboo trade in the country. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh wrote to chief ministers of all states to alter their rules and instruct the state forest …
The department of Forest, Environment and Ecology has passed an order to hand over 6,300 tonne bamboo which have flowered and dried in the Kodagu forest to the Karnataka State Forest Industries Corporation Limited as a precautionary measure to avoid forest fire and also to increase the income of the …
