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 …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi December 16, 2008, 0:25 IST It beats rice and wheat in almost all respects. Potato seems poised to emerge as a key food crop in the near future. First, potato yields more food per unit of land and per unit of time than either wheat …
With wheat sown in 34 lakh hectares across the state high day temperature is giving farmers the jitters. At this stage it is the biting cold which promotes tillering of wheat seed which helps raise the wheat yield. Despite having reached mid-December the region is yet to witness trademark shivering …
Asks FCI to speed up movement of stocks The Punjab Food and Supplies Department has requested the Centre to allow border trade of wheat to Pakistan and Afghanistan through the Wagah land route to clear the huge wheat stocks lying in the state. The state has also claimed that slow …
This Report is an update of the Rural Food Insecurity Atlas of 2001 released by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Since then, numerous new programmes have been initiated by the central and state governments for achieving food security in the country. Giving …
Will eating fresh produce increase your exposure to harmful pesticides? This fact sheet provides an overview of pesticide use on food crops in the United States and the latest USDA findings on pesticide residues. It summarizes some basic food preparation practices that can reduce your exposure to pesticide residues on …
The first part of this publication examines hunger and poverty in the region, changes in dietary patterns, agricultural commodity trends, and the outlook for the future, including the major challenges that need to be addressed. The second part provides a special focus on the new
The horticulture sector encompasses a wide range of crops e.g., fruit crops, vegetable crops, potato and tuber crops, ornamental crops, medicinal and aromatic crops, spices and plantation crops. India, with its wide variability of climate and soil, is highly favourable for growing a large number of horticultural crops. It is …
In order to meet increasing demands of food due to rising population and income, food production in India and other south Asian countries need to be increased. Rain-fed agriculture in India, practiced on 94 million hectares (M ha), is considered a major source of production increase in future. This report …
This publication highlights the significance of the seed and new crop technologies. It captures the experiences of three key developments in Indian agriculture that sustained growth in agriculture, contributed to increased food production and the alleviation of poverty and hunger.
The Bank of Khyber (BoK) has formally launched the Crop Insurance Scheme for agricultural loans after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Insurance Corporation (NIC) in its Peshawar head office. The Vice President and head of Agricultural Credit and Macro-Finance Department BoK, Gul Kiaz Khan and the …
NABARANGPUR: Spectre of a drought-like situation haunts farmers in this predominantly tribal district due to insufficient rains during the recent kharif season. Being an agrarian district, 90 percent population here depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Bereft of irrigation facilities, the farming community largely depend on rains for agriculture. During …
Agriculture Development Minister Maithripala Sirisena told Parliament yesterday that it is a matter for shame that Sri Lanka still imports Kurakkan every year. Minister Sirisena said the country still imports grains such as cowpea, and an import tax had been imposed in the budget to discourage the influx of such …
Global wheat and other cereals output will jump to record highs this year, but the financial crisis is likely to hit the world farming sector and may trigger a new price surge next year, UN
Minister of science technology and environment Bikram Singh Majithia today called on farm scientists of the world develop strains of crops resistant to global warming. Inaugurating a conference on climate change, biodiversity and food security in the South Asian regions organised by the Punjab State Council for Science and Technology …
This agrofuel watch guideline is supposed to be applied for monitoring of the status of the right to food in the context of expansions of agro-fuel at community level. The study includes Case studies of Violations of Right to Food due to Agro-fuel Cultivation in India. The incidence and analysis …
Biofuels are being touted as a solution to rising fuel prices, growing energy demands, and the need to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. Governments have good reasons for promoting biofuels. Yet, a headlong rush into growing biofuel crops will bring its own problems. Unless planned properly, biofuel crops are likely …
EU sets target for non-food biofuel The European Parliament recently voted to limit the use of food crops as biofuel. It proposed that at least 4 per cent of the total biofuel used in vehicular transport should come from non-food crops, dubbed second generation biofuels. It can also come from …
