An Eye on Methane: the road to radical transparency takes stock of progress harnessing an imminent data revolution that can accelerate methane reduction on a global scale. Credible data has the potential to deliver the transparency needed for rapid climate action, but only if reconciled, integrated and put into the …
I am extremely happy to note that this year, India Today State of the States Conclave has decided to keep agriculture at the top of its agenda. The topic, "Second Green Revolution: What the States Need to Do", is extremely appropriate though I would modify it slightly to read "Second …
Norman Borlaug, the father of the "Green Revolution" who died on Saturday in Texas aged 95, is widely credited with saving more than a billion lives by breeding wheat, rice and other crops that brought agricultural self-sufficiency to developing countries around the world. Borlaug was one of only five people …
Borlaug Showed India The Way To Overcome Food Shortage New Delhi: Long before Mr Bush and Dr Rice came by to leapfrog US-India ties to a new level, it was Prof Wheat who jumpstarted and nourished the relationship. Norman Borlaug, the genial scientist-pacifist who died of cancer in Dallas on …
Union for National Industry Trade and Entrepreneurs Nepal (UNITE) has asked the government to concentrate on green revolution campaign for the next five years. "It is mandatory to chalk out integrated development policy for agriculture and industries," UNITE said adding that the revolution must target surplus food production along with …
There are three different types of drought, not one. There is a meteorological drought, when actual rainfall is deficient (20 per cent below normal) or scanty (60 per cent or more below normal). The Indian Meteorological Department has now declared a deficiency of 29 per cent in the south-west monsoon. …
As a young agriculture reporter with the Indian Express, Devinder Sharma had covered the success story of Sukhomajri, a village near Chandigarh, where villagers came together to prevent soil erosion and fight for their environment. One of the persons who made that possible was P.R. Mishra. A few years later …
THE story of Haryana, which was carved out of fertile Punjab in November 1966, is one of unparalleled agricultural growth. Today, according to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Haryana has become the
The government, it seems, has decided to go slow on the Food Security Act, something it had promised to enact very quickly, just a month ago. An early indicator of the changed approach was evident in the Budget speech when the finance minister said that a draft of the legislation …
BJP State President and Member of Parliament Narendra Singh Tomar expressed concern over the depleting investment in agriculture and said that contribution of agriculture in national gross domestic product (GDP) was 17 per cent. Plan expenses on agriculture has come done to two to three per cent. In the year …
An uneasy calm envelops the dusty roads and recently harvested fields of Khiala village in Mansa district of Punjab. The village looks abandoned except for a few eager eyes scanning the only vehicle moving around on a sunny afternoon. As this correspondent reaches the Dalit-dominated western side of the village, …
New Delhi: The government will help in setting up 350 new food processing units in the next 100 days as part of its efforts to create one crore jobs in the sector by 2015. Announcing this, Minister for Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahai on Wednesday said the government would …
Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF) an organization run by Kofi Anan Foundation assured of all cooperation to Bangladesh in facing the challenges of climate change. The assurance came when State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Hasan Mahmud called on former secretary general of the United Nations Kofi Anan on June 24 …
Last year the skyrocketing cost of food was a wake-up call for the planet. Between 2005 and the summer of 2008, the price of wheat and corn tripled, and the price of rice climbed fivefold, spurring food riots in nearly two dozen countries and pushing 75 million more people into …
This new report by Oxfam International calls on governments and donor countries to prioritise investments in agriculture as a way of fighting poverty. It says that investing in agriculture will also help to ensure food security and mitigating climate change. Decades of faltering public commitment to investing in agriculture has …
ITANAGAR, May 12: The booming sound of guns at insurgency- affected Tirap district in Arunachal Pradesh will soon be replaced by agriculture activities, as the easternmost district of the state is all set for a green revolution. The district administration and agriculture department have planned an extensive double-cropping initiative in …
Two usual objections are levelled against the proposal that organic agriculture can feed the world. Organic agriculture, opponents claim, gives low yields, and there isn
