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 objectives of this treaty are the conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of their use, in harmony with the Convention on Biological Diversity, for sustainable agriculture and food security. These objectives will …
University bans field trials THE Maharashtra agriculture university announced it would no longer allow field trials of GM food crops in its field at Kolhapur. The move came in the wake of a protest in March by hundreds of farmers and citizens against an open-air field test of GM corn …
MUMBAI: Climate change may hit the sugar industry in the state with sugarcane crop yields being reduced by up to 30% in the future with long-term socio-economic implications for many farmers. This was revealed after a four-year study conducted by the World Bank in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa that …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi May 18, 2009, 1:02 IST World foodgrain production is anticipated to drop in 2009-10 largely due to reduced area sown with these crops by farmers in the developed countries in response to a sharp fall in international cereal prices. Some of the cereal acreage is …
The objectives of this study are : to present a comprehensive review of the status of biofuels developments around the world and the policy regimes and support measures driving this evolution; to assess the agro-ecological potential of all major biofuels crops
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Foodgrains production for 2008-09 is estimated to be 229.85 million tonnes as against 227.32 million tonnes in the third advance estimates last year although shortfall is expected in the output of wheat, edible oilseeds, sugarcane, pulses and coarse cereals. The higher output of rice this year …
The Irrigation and Water Management Ministry in collaboration with the Power and Energy Ministry will construct a large scale hydro electricity plant in Wellawaya to generate 300 GWH. This plant will be able to generate power and add 300 GWH to the National Grid, the Irrigation and Water Management Ministry …
Agriculture sector of the country is incurring huge post harvest loss amounting to Taka 30,000 crore annually due to unplanned and haphazard collection and preservation of at least 15 food grains. On an average 17 percent of total production of the food grains suffer loss and due to this, the …
Thiruvananthapuram, May 4 The grama panchayats in Kerala were able to take up paddy cultivation in 45,150 acres of fallow land in 2008-09. The panchayats were expected to go in for paddy cultivation in over 10,000 acres during the year. However, the achievement was more than four times the target, …
- Massanjore reservoir dries up, management indifferent GAUTAM SARKAR Dumka, May 3: Bishnu Gorai, a farmer at Bilkandi hamlet under Raneshwar block in Dumka district, is not sure whether he can marry off his elder daughter this year. The dry spell has poured cold water on this father
A man quenches his thirst at a drinking water shed in Balangir. BHAWANIPATNA: Kalahandi is in the grip of acute water crisis sans rains since September last. Most of the water sources have dried up and farmers are apprehending loss of paddy crops in many minor irrigation ayacut areas. Water …
The Puthimari embankments on both the banks have a number of vulnerable points and if immediate steps are not taken to strengthen the embankments at these points, the river may cause more devastation for the localities situated along its banks in the coming days. This was the apprehension expressed by …
This new policy brief focuses on small-scale agriculture,an important contributor to poverty reduction, rural development, and food security. It recommends support for small holder agriculture, for which the support has declined sharply in the past three decades. Across the developing world, small-scale agriculture is an important contributor to poverty reduction, …
The state of California has adopted regulations to curb greenhouse-gas emissions from transportation fuels, codifying evidence that biofuels are significantly dirtier than they were once thought to be.
Cultivation of summer Mug dal has been gaining popularity in various districts of the region for the last couple of years with the farmers reaping higher economic benefit from the increased demand for this variety of pulse. Apart from cultivation of winter Mug dal, the acreage for summer Mug dal …
Sirhind/ Bassi Pathana: After the inclement weather, fire has destroyed wheat crop and stubble on hundreds of acres of land this season in Fatehgarh Sahib and adjoining areas. A visit to Bassi Pathana, Sirhind, Khamano, Amloh and Mandi Gobindgarh blocks of the district revealed that crop worth lakhs has already …
The government has made all arrangements to provide 10 million tons of urea to the farmers at their door steps across the country for 2009-2010 Kharif crops cotton, rice and sugarcane. Additional Secretary Food and Agriculture, Shahid Hussain Raja told a representative meeting of all the stakeholders in Islamabad on …
