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 …
Inflation continues unabated. In the last week of March it stopped at 7.14 per cent and swinging in April it reached up to 7.33 per cent. Government adopted several measures but it did not make any difference. Inflation lowered a little and again it started rising. Reserve Bank of India …
Now the question arises who is getting benefited by these measures and who is getting hit? We all know that about two third of our population is dependent on agriculture for its sustenance. After ignoring the alarm bells of price rise for long, government is taking desperate measures now. Most …
The escalating price rise and food crisis has put into focus the state of our agriculture yet again. Only a month-and-a-half back an estimated Rs 60,000 crore loan waiver for farmers hogged the headline for days together. The government's decision was on an unprecedented scale. And this aspect of Finance …
After the failure of government in controlling inflation now there is hope on clouds. It is believed that if monsoon comes in time and rains properly , production of crop would be good and rates of food grains would lower itself. But the scientists of meteorological department said that normal …
The inflationary process at the international level is pushed by factors that cannot be easily controlled. THE chances are that people under the age of 30 in most countries of the world would never have experienced price rises of the extent and rapidity of the past year. Globally, the prices …
The current food crisis is nature's way of cocking a snook at man's pompousness. With all the tall claims of progress in science, we are yet to find a permanent solution for the most basic of needs i.e., food. Food riots have been reported from a number of countries including …
For a government under great pressure to contain the rising prices of essential commodities, especially food items, the overall message from the third advance estimates of food production (2007-08) ought to be most welcome. The aggregate production will touch a record high of 227.32 million tonnes (MT), 10 MT more …
Mangoes will taste bitter this season as excessive rainfall and shortage of supply hikes prices The king of fruits may be in town, but it is coming with a big price tag this season. Untimely heavy rainfall in Konkan region has resulted in massive damage to crops and a severe …
The robust performance of food and non-food crops in 2007-08, as reflected in the latest crop estimates released by Krishi Bhawan, should provide relief to an inflation-battered economy as also to a government struggling to deal with the high prices of essential items. The projected 4.6 per cent growth in …
The Delhi Grain Merchants Association on Wednesday threatened to stop purchasing fresh stocks of food grain if the state 'government continued its raids in shops. DGMA president 0 P Jain warned that their decision not to buy fresh stocks might result in spiralling prices due to grain scarcity. Jain said …
Governor, Lt. Gen (Retd) S. K. Sinha has appreciated the headway made by Sher-i-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology (SKUAST), Jammu in academic and research fields during the past few years even as Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad urged agricultural scientists in Jammu & Kashmir to prepare for the …
The world's food security structure seems to be crumbling and could give way to a serious crisis if not tackled on a war footing. Of course many factors -rising population, increasing demand for food in faster developing nations like India and China, drought conditions in many parts of world, expanding …
The real solution for meeting shortages is to increase supplies instead of imposing controls. There is ample scope for increasing production of food grains -Brij Bhardwaj World is facing serious crisis in terms of finding enough to feed teeming millions and at the same time also meet the growing needs …
India may be worried about smuggling of drugs, arms and ammunition and infiltration of jehadis from across the border but Pakistan seems to be more concerned at the possibility of smuggling of rice, pulses and wheat from its territory. Skyrocketing prices in India has "forced' Pakistan to send an urgent …
Even as the debate over foodgrain scarcity being a major cause for the current inflationary trend rages, an advance estimate released by the government on Tuesday said foodgrain production in the country touched a record 227.32 million tonnes during 2007-08. The 3rd Advance Estimate, according to department of agriculture and …
Production surged 10 million tonnes to 227.32 million tonnes in 2007-08. After a near-stagnation or modest growth in output for several years, Indian agriculture is reckoned officially to have rebound in 2007-08 with foodgrain production surging by 10 million tonnes, or 4.6 per cent, to touch a new high of …
World's breadbasket faces food crisis Food Shortages, An Unthinkable Phenomenon In US, Have Hit Many Parts Of The Country Mountain View (California): Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of …
The scorching sun has been beating down on parched farmlands in Malda, sucking the waterbodies dry and causing the groundwater level to plummet. Officials in the district agriculture department fear huge crop losses if it does not rain in the next few days. The four blocks of Old Malda, Bamungola, …
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal here today directed all the DCs to examine the reasons of burning of wheat crop in the state and report immediately to departments concerned. According to an official spokesman, Badal directed that in case of fire affecting standing crops due to spark in the …
Even under adverse conditions, Punjab farmers have produced bumper crop Farmers of the state epitomise the true Punjabi spirit. Producing bumper crop year after year and surpassing national average have become a habit for Punjab, right from the days of Green Revolution. Punjab alone produces nearly 20 per cent of …
