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 …
Asit Ranjan Mishra & Siddharth Zarabi / New Delhi July 30, 2008, 0:02 IST Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Economic Advisory Council (EAC) has rejected a recommendation by a government-appointed agricultural price fixing body to increase the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy to Rs 1,000 for the current Kharif season. …
An international team of 27 laboratories said on Sunday they had laid bare the genetic code of a tiny parasite responsible for billions of dollars in crop losses each year. The worm, known as the root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita), infests plant roots leaving them gnarled. More than 3,000 crop types …
The new 'records' of most crops are not significantly higher than those achieved in the past. The updated crop production estimates released by Krishi Bhawan for 2007-08 and the previous year, showing new production records for most crops, may suggest an impressive performance of agriculture, but a closer look at …
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai July 25, 2008, 0:55 IST India's paddy output is likely to rise marginally by 1.39 per cent, or 2 million tonnes, due to favourable monsoon in some major growing areas, says the latest report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). The country's total paddy …
High procurement: Good strategy or bad arithmetic, examines KP Prabhakaran Nair, agricultural scientist based in Kerala About two months ago New Delhi was involved in a fire-fighting exercise on the food front, particularly on the wheat front. It put embargo on rail transport for private trade, scrapped the futures trade, …
The city district government has set up 54 centres in Rawalpindi district to supply flour to the residents at control rate of Rs 375 per 20 kg bag. Punjab Deputy Director Food Saqib Manan told Daily Times that 35 points had been set up in Rawalpindi city, four in Taxila, …
West Asian, North African Countries Turning To Expensive Schemes For Maintaining Food Supply Andrew Martin Cairo: Global food shortages have placed the Middle East and North Africa in a quandary, as they are forced to choose between growing more crops to feed an expanding population or preserving their already scant …
Paddy sowing in the on-going Kharif season rose by 23 per cent to 14.88 million hectares so far against 12.1 million hectares in the same period last year. The area under oilseed coverage rose marginally to 10.1 million hectares for the week ended July 17 against 9.9 million hectares in …
For the first time in the history of Pakistan, banks and insurance companies would formally launch 'Crop Loan Insurance Scheme' from Rabi season. A meeting of the State Bank of Pakistan's Task Force on Crop Loan Insurance Framework on Thursday finally decided to launch the insurance scheme for farmers throughout …
GUWAHATI, July 16: Loans of over 2.26 lakh farmers have been waived in Asom as per the Union Budget's provision for farmers' loan waiver even as the State is witnessing a decreasing trend in rice production over the years. As many as 3,51,169 farmers had taken loans in the State …
A 90-foot breach in Khewra canal near Chak 385-JB inundated crops spreading over hundreds of acres of farmland late Monday night.Faisalabad irrigation department west circle superintending engineer Rana Rafiq Ahmad and Jhang executive engineer Abbas Shahid Cheema visited the spot and ordered a probe. The affected growers demanded that the …
Krishi Bhawan's latest estimate of a record crop output in 2007-08 may seem to indicate a pick-up in Indian agriculture, but this has not been adequately reflected in the recent price trends of agricultural commodities. The prices of most commodities have remained firm and even increased. The latest estimate puts …
Federal and provincial governments had formed a project worth million of rupees to introduce virus free types but even after the passage of 16 years all the research institutions of the country failed to invent virus free type. Last year the crops were attacked by different viruses including mealy bug, …
Food is a priority for the world A secret World Bank report has nailed the lie that the biofuels policy of the developed countries led by the US and the UK has not contributed to the international food crisis. Most of the world, including India, is convinced that the policy, …
Sirsa: The state government has announced Rs 100 bonus on select varieties of paddy brought to the market from September 26, 2007, to December 31. V. Umashankar said here today that all commission agents had been directed to pay Rs 100 against a quintal on "leviable' and grade A paddy, …
Surinder Sud / Mumbai July 4, 2008, 0:09 IST The early rains were expected to give some impetus to kharif sowing. But the initial momentum has been lost due to wavering government policies on agricultural commodities and the weakening monsoon. The pace of sowing has also reportedly been affected by …
Given the importance of the agriculture sector in the Indian economy in terms of its contribution to the GDP (18.5%), employment (58%) and the fact that it constitutes the backbone of the rural livelihood security system, the Union Government supplements and complements the efforts being made by the State Governments …
