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 …
More than 5000 acres of paddy and vegetables cultivation in Uva Paranagama is endangered with devastation due to the prevailing drought. Much of the irrigation canals and streams that irrigated the area have run dry. The Uma-Ela that irrigates more than 2060 acres of paddy land is the worst affected. …
LUCKNOW: Sugar may be in short supply but `dal-roti' will be in abundance in Uttar Pradesh. A record production this year has belied all apprehensions of gloom on the agriculture front in the wake of dry spell of winter. This may give the Mayawati government an added advantage over her …
Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI THE government may ease restrictions on export of wheat and rice as it looks to clear the stocks in anticipation of a bumper harvest, a government official hinted. A meeting of the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on March 5 is likely to ease export norms, …
Kalpesh Damor / Mumbai/ Ahmedabad March 02, 2009, 0:27 IST Lower acreage coupled with unfavourable weather conditions is likely hit Rabi production in Gujarat in 2008-09. On the one hand, area under wheat, mustard, isabgul and sugarcane crops has declined in the state this Rabi season, while on the other …
With 230 Million Undernourished, It Accounts For 27% Of Global Total New Delhi: India is failing its rural poor with 230 million people being undernourished
The Agriculture Insurance Company of India (AICI) will be extending the scope of weather-based crop insurance scheme to four districts in Haryana, and also introduce this for tomato crop in Himachal Pradesh. Officials in AICI informed TNS that they have extended the scheme for weather-based crop insurance for barley in …
MUMBAI: Impressed by the success of the pilot project launched at the tribal Surgana village, Nashik district in June 2007, the Centre is now considering the extension of the home delivery system of foodgrains under the public distribution scheme (PDS) throughout the country in a phased manner. Food and civil …
Date: 18-Feb-09 Country: KENYA Author: Daniel Wallis NAIROBI - Up to a quarter of global food production could be lost by 2050 due to the combined impact of climate change, land degradation and loss, water scarcity and species infestation, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The fall-off will strike just …
BAU vice-chancellor N.N. Singh (left) felicitates adviser to governor G. Krishnan at a convention in Ranchi on Sunday. Picture by Hardeep Singh Ranchi, Feb. 15: Here
MIDNAPORE, Feb.12: Potato farmers in West Midnapore district are in dire straits as thousands of hectares of crop land have been hit by a pest epidemic. Due to significant loss incurred by the farmers, they will now face difficulties in repaying their loans. A farmer in Garbeta II block area …
LUCKNOW: Thunderstorms followed by light rains in some parts of the state on Tuesday night and on Wednesday, though came as a relief but the amount of rains was very low. Weatherman said that the circulations which caused thunderstorms have passed but newer ones are on their way, hence the …
CHENGAM: Farmers in the Chengam block are incurring losses as animals from the surrounding reserve forest area are damaging their crop. The loss caused by the animals, particularly wild pigs, was more in areas such as Neepathurai, Ilangkuni, Arathavadi, Ravandavadi, Ramapuram, Palipattu, Melchengam and Dhandampattu. A cross-section of the farmers …
Special Correspondent TIRUVARUR: Collector M. Chandrasekaran has appealed to farmers to insure their summer crops under the schemes of National Crop Insurance Corporation. Speaking at the monthly grievances day meeting at the collectorate here on Thursday, he said the last date for insuring summer paddy crop for loanee farmers is …
Rajeev Khanna & Arvind Kashyap Dehradun | Solan: Even as they look expectantly at skies to open up, farmers in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand have begun counting their losses. Scanty rainfall across both the states, they realise, is set to deal them a blow of several crores of rupees. They …
LUCKNOW: Already battling with inflation and economic recession, the common man may now also have to bear the brunt of weather vagaries. If the winter season continues to be `unusually warm' and `sans rains', as it is these days, it would cause extensive damage to crops, thereby reducing the production …
Cultivation of hybrid rice is to be promoted in a big way by offering heavy subsidies in areas where the paddy yields have reached the plateau. This will help lift the rice production and productivity to the next higher level from the record 83.25 million tonnes bagged in the last …
The inadequate rainfall this winter season is likely to have an adverse impact on agricultural crops, according to experts and Met officials. There has been minimal rain in the winter, with only Meerut receiving 0.2 mm of rainfall. UPCAR scientific officer Sujit Kumar said that due to inadequate rain, pollination …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A price stability fund for farmers which the Finance Minister had promised and failed to deliver last fiscal year, is one of the highlights of the draft annual plan for 2009-2010, which had been approved by the Cabinet on Tuesday.
