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 ambitious Food Security Bill may look at being more inclusive------------- Every Morsel Counts The alternative version Jean Dreze, Economist 1. Food security guarantee will have to come from the Centre 2. Does not want to freeze number of BPL families at any inflexible level 3. Wants clear criteria to …
Chhattisgarh is witnessing an alleged multi-crore scam with thousands of tonnes of paddy procured only on paper. Glaring irregularities have surfaced in the scheme for procurement of paddy worth nearly Rs 4,000 crore during the last kharif season on support price from farmers, with computerised official data indicating an alleged …
Udhampur: Demanding action against officers of the Agriculture Department responsible for the failure of the maize crop, social activists and dissident Congress leader RS Pathania has alleged that sub-standard and eaten up maize seeds were distributed among farmers of the Majalata area of Ramnagar . In a statement issued here …
Deficient rainfall in many parts of the country has started showing stress on the progress of sowing of kharif crops. As of the first week of July, the sowing of paddy, the major food grain crop of the season, was down by about 25 per cent compared to last year, …
Chandan Kishore Kant / Mumbai July 4, 2009, 0:41 IST Irrespective of the fact that the monsoon has covered most parts of the country, the next fortnight is going to be crucial for the kharif crop. Concerns over the crop size have still not receded as rain has been deficient …
India today lifted a 28-month ban on wheat export by allowing export of 900,000 tonnes of the grain by government-owned trading agencies. Export of 650,000 tonnes of wheat products like wheat flour and maida has also been permitted, according to a notification issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade …
Freedom to export and import foodgrain within a domestic price band. To insulate poor producers and poor consumers of agricultural commodities, including consumer goods like cereals and pulses, the Economic Survey suggests the government should announce a price band for domestic prices in which imports and exports are freely allowed …
Micro-irrigation, watershed development need more attention. There is clearly a need for a renewed focus on improving agricultural productivity, notes the Economic Survey, while stepping up the growth of allied and non-farm activities. As it notes, the contribution of agriculture, including allied activities, as a percentage of the country's gross …
K. Balchand NEW DELHI: The Economic Survey has painted the Agriculture sector in a rather bleak picture with a sudden drop in the growth rate during 2008-09 to just about 1.6 percent. The Agriculture sector had recorded an average growth of about 4.9 per cent over three years, from 2005-06 …
Funds are increasingly looking to invest in farmland as a rising global population and changing diets lead to growing demand for food crops. But the emergence of the asset class is not without pitfalls with the provision of food always highly political and a tentative global economic recovery potentially threatened …
The agriculture sector, which in previous Economic Surveys seemed to be pulling out of a bad patch, slipped back into a dismal 1.6% growth in 2008-09, the latest report said. The worst show was in the third quarter, which, on a year-on-year basis, showed a 0.8% decline. The crimped gross …
Africa's farmers need help to access loans, fertilizer and export markets to avoid future food supply crises caused by climate change and commodities speculation, a top agricultural expert said on Tuesday. Wheat, rice and maize prices have fallen sharply from their 2008 highs, when protests broke out across the developing …
The concept of local food is appealing to many consumers. But it is difficult to define what actually constitutes local food. Given the globalised nature of agricultural markets, bread baked in a small village bakery in England may be made from grain grown in Canada. Similarly, many of the inputs …
The first biofuels produced using new generations of biomass raw materials could be available in commercial volumes from 2010 at the earliest, German junior Environment Michael Mueller said on Monday. But the exact time scale was still unclear, Mueller said at the European Biomass conference in Hamburg. Germany is among …
Canadian farmers oppose the introduction of genetically modified wheat until market conditions change, a Canadian Wheat Board survey has found. In the CWB's annual survey of 1,300 Western Canadian farmers, only 9 percent said GMO wheat should be grown as soon as it's available, with the majority saying it shouldn't …
