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 …
At around 11 a.m., Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar eagerly awaits an SMS. No, the message is not about the Indian Premier League. It is from his officials who send him the scores on a day-to-day basis on harvesting and procurement of foodgrain. Last week, as his slim mobile phone silently …
So far, 22 lakh 37 thousand 892 metric tonnes of wheat has been procured on support price from farmers in Madhya Pradesh and Rs 1266 core 32 lakh has been paid to them. Farmers are being given Rs one hundred bonus declared by the state government on the procurement of …
Amritsar: border belt, 62,313 hectare-metre water saved this year Paddy plantation that draws most of the underground water in this season had been zero per cent in the entire border belt of the state. With the government officials, especially of the Agriculture Department, strictly implementing the ban on planting paddy …
Promising massive infrastructure building, Tripura Finance Minister Badal Chowdhury presented a budget of Rs 5,248.76 crore with a deficit of Rs 76.74 crore for the 2008-2009 financial year in the Assembly here today. The budget has proposed substantial increase in capital expenditure as the outlay for infrastructure building has been …
Sir, Your editorial "Time for a second green revolution' (June 3) calls for a range of strategies to boost crop yields obtained under diverse conditions. Crucial are the implications for sub-Saharan Africa. The continent's highly varied eco-agricultural zones imply that Africa cannot just replicate Asia's transformation of the 1960s and …
MNCs Dealing In Seeds, Foodgrains, Fertilizers Flourish Leaders from across the world are gathered in Rome for the World Food Summit as people from their countries grapple with the food crisis marked by escalating food prices and shortages. As they discuss the situation, they may find it interesting to have …
Lennart Bage, President, IFAD The full impact of the present food crisis is still unknown. What is certain is that its origins are much older than perceived. One of the three UN agencies whose role is to avert food crises like this is the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). …
In total 349 different pesticides are present in food products sold in the EU. Some 45.7% of food items tested are found to contain pesticides, including 5%
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is a Department designated(a) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(b) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community. These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops,Food and Feeding Stuffs) …
All agricultural commodities covered in this report are of critical importance to global food and feed markets. They constitute much of the world's food consumption, generate income to farmers and represent the largest portion of food import expenditures across the world. The analysis in the report puts in perspective market …
While the inflationary pressure has gone out of control from the government, commodity prices have been steadily increasing. During the week, price of fish jumped by 6%, fruits and vegetables by 3% and moong dal and spices by 2% and 1% respectively. Despite export bans, skimmed milk was costlier by …
The post harvest wastage in India for instance, is estimated to be as high as 26 per cent. This figure is just two per cent in the developed countries OUR POLYMERS BUREAU India currently is facing dual challenges of food security and rising inflation. Escalating food prices is one of …
It appears Mother Nature has at last answered the prayers offered for the last more than four years by our Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, for a second Green Revolution in agriculture so that foodgrains are available in plenty and it would no longer be necessary to import wheat from …
The Union Minister for Agriculture, Mr Sharad Pawar, with the State ministers for agriculture at an exhibition of sorghum at the national conference, held at NAARM in Hyderabad on Monday. The Union Government would announce the much-awaited minimum support price (MSP) for paddy for this kharif season soon. Talking to …
Authorities fail to come to the rescue of farmers, orchardists THE recent hailstorms which hit major parts of Kashmir valley and the upper reaches of Jammu region and damaged the crops wherever sowing operations are nearing completion should send alarming signals in the corridors of power. But unfortunately, things do …
Energy expert and Planning Commission member, Kirit S. Parikh spoke to Outlook ... Excerpts: The debate over food versus fuel has made biofuel a dirty word... Internationally, biofuel has become a dirty word. But in India, I don't think it will become a dirty word. There are reasons for this. …
The time has come to look afresh at the management of the food economy in order to ensure food security--------- Food security, specially for the poor and vulnerable sections of our population has always been the centrepiece of our policy ever since independence. In 1947, the scars of the Bengal …
S&T;, agriculture ministries hold the key to exploiting a good monsoon to augment food production For a government battling high food prices and inflationary expectations, the news that the country is set to witness another good monsoon this year must have been sweet music indeed. The monsoon has been quantified …
The Punjab government has asked the Centre to include the entire state in the National Food Security Mission (NFSM)-Rice to ensure better contribution to the Central Pool of food-grains on one hand and the long-term National Food Security due to improved ecological sustainability of agriculture production pattern in the state, …
