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 agriculture ministry is preparing a contingency plan to prevent food shortage---------- For the first time in 30 years, India stares at the probability of a drought, which threatens to worsen the already precarious food demand-supply balance and plunge the country into a deeper food security crisis. The agriculture ministry …
The press release by Greenpeace on its protest against herbicide-resistant rice trial by Bayer Crop in the village of Chinnakanjarla, about 45 kilometers from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. It warns that this would lead to serious contamination of non-GM rice grown in the vicinity. Greenpeace activists today raided a genetically …
BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa State Seeds Corporation (OSSC) will provide four lakh quintals of paddy seed during the kharif. Last year, 2.5 lakh quintals paddy seed was supplied. According to corporation chairman Golak Behari Nayak, so far 3.35 lakh quintal seed had been supplied to the farmers while another 65,000 quintal …
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has set an ambitious target to provide Rs 1,500 crore loans to the farmers for the kharif and Rs 1,000 crore for the rabi season through cooperative lending institutions. The decision was taken at a joint meeting of Agriculture and Cooperative departments officers presided by Agriculture …
New Delhi: There is further trouble on the monsoon front. The northward advance of the monsoon is likely to be held up by another week leading to a delay in the sowing of Kharif crops in most of central and north peninsular India. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday …
US scientists are trying to develop wheat strains resistant to a fungus that has spread from Africa to Iran, and is likely to show up soon in India and Pakistan. The 'Ug99' fungus, also known as 'stem rust', is likely to spread world-wide, either through windblown spores or carried inadvertently …
BHUBANESWAR: Exploitation of groundwater has been a raging issue in Orissa lately though the State utilises barely about 14 per cent. Now does it augur well for its resources and future generation or is it too little given the requirements of a largely agrarian economy? A latest study shows that …
A new focus on the impact of farming on climate change could both curb carbon emissions and prod efforts to boost yields and rural incomes in developing countries, delegates told a U.N. climate conference. But curbing greenhouse gases from farms also means confronting complex tradeoffs, especially to try and feed …
A programme has been prepared for growing Kharif crops in 9 lakh hectare area in Sagar division. Farmers will be supplied 85130 metric tonnes of fertlisers and 91137 tonnes of seeds during the Kharif season. This information was given at a divisional meeting of agriculture officers held here recently for …
Monsanto and Germany-based BASF have discovered a naturally-occurring gene that can help corn plants combat drought and confer yield stability during periods of inadequate water supplies. The scientists of both companies announced the discovery in Germany on Tuesday. The companies stated they would use the gene in their first-generation, drought-tolerant, …
BARCIK, a non-governmental organisation, organised a dialogue titled 'Climate change: The security of agriculture and farmers' at the National Press Club in the city on Thursday, says a press release. Chairman of parliamentary standing committee on food and disaster management ministry Md Sayedul Houqe attended the programme as chief guest …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said on Thursday that it was a challenge to legally provide 25 kg of rice or wheat at Rs.3 per kg to all Below Poverty Line category of Public Distribution System beneficiaries and his Ministry was working towards it. On …
Farm and environment groups opposed to genetically modified wheat are countering a call from other farm organizations for biotech companies to commercially develop it. Fifteen groups in the top wheat-exporting countries of Canada, the U.S. and Australia released a joint statement of opposition to GMO wheat on Monday. It follows …
It happens only in India. The country is the second largest producer of food in the world, yet over 300 million people go without two square meals a day. Ironically, food worth Rs 58,000 crore
This paper sketches out the possible evolution of world food and agriculture to 2050 in terms of the key variables (production and consumption of the main commodity groups and the implications for food and nutrition in the developing countries). It presents a view of how these variables may evolve over …
High food insecurity persists in Zimbabwe in spite of improvements in agricultural production and a more liberal import policy this year, according to a report issued by FAO and the World Food Programme (WFP). Good rainfall meant 2009 production of the staple crop, maize, is estimated to have more than …
