Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Agrarian and poor communities in general in the Asia-Pacific region are highly vulnerable to climate change. Effective reduction of vulnerabilities requires aligning sustainable development (SD), climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiatives. Insurance has been increasingly advocated as a risk management tool both by the CCA and …
WASHINGTON — Climate change could substantially increase losses in taxpayer-backed flood and crop insurance programs in coming decades, according to a new government report. The Government Accountability Office found that exposure to losses for property insured under the two programs grew by 8% to $1.4 trillion over the past six …
‘Construct check dam at Harichandra River as announced by the CM’ Farmers of various associations expressed their displeasure over the new crop insurance scheme and urged the government to withdraw it at the grievances meet held here on Wednesday . Under the new scheme, a farmer has to pay a …
Despite more than four months, no compensation for crops damaged by hailstorm has been paid by the government to affected farmers. Now the green panel has sought reply from the Union agriculture secretary whether there is any provision of interim relief or other compensation from the department. The central zone …
When a scorching drought struck eastern Australia in 2006, cattle farmers Robyn and Paul Kendal had to slaughter nearly all their livestock and spend around a year of their normal turnover on feed to keep the remainder alive. With a recurrence of El Nino, the weather pattern behind the drought, …
The Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC), North East Zone, has advised farmers to embrace insurance culture to safeguard their investment against calamities caused by climate change. The Zonal Manager, Malam Ahmed Arabi, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Bauchi. Arabi …
Based on the observation in 10 km area, the companies had been fixing the insurance cover that had resulted in making the real beneficiaries ineligible Chhattisgarh government had decided to introduce the weather based crop insurance scheme across the state.The department of agriculture had issued to this effect to cover …
National Green Tribunal (NGT), central zone bench, Bhopal on Tuesday rapped Madhya Pradesh government and crop insurance company over the delay in releasing compensation to farmers affected by hailstorm in the state. NGT bench comprising Justice Dalip Singh and expert member PS Rao slammed Agriculture Insurance Company of India Limited …
Farmers and agriculture-sector analysts stressed the need for more pragmatic approach and wider policy support in the upcoming national budget to boost the country’s agriculture sector. They recommended for introducing ‘agriculture safety fund’ and ‘crop insurance’ in the next fiscal to help increase agricultural output. They also suggested forming a …
Rain deficiency could also impact food inflation, affect lakhs of jobs, says industry body About five per cent deficit rains due to possible El Niño factor could have a bearing on economic growth by 1.75 per cent in the 2014-15 financial year, affecting hundred of thousands of unskilled jobs, an …
Report of the Committee Constituted Under the Chairmanship of Dr.P.K.Mishra, Ex-secretary, Department of Agriculture & Cooperation to Review the Implementation of crop Insurance schemes in India. This report attempts to address some of the issues and challenges facing major crop insurance schemes being operated in India. Many of the issues …
Given the Met’s disastrous track record in predicting the impact of El Nino events—the first projection in 2009 was of a rainfall level of 96% of the long-period average against the actual levels of just 77%—its initial projections of a 23% probability of deficient rains are scary; more so since, …
Hunger is not and need never be inevitable. However climate change threatens to put back the fight to eradicate it by decades – and global food system is woefully unprepared to cope with the challenge. Oxfam analyses how well the world’s food system is prepared for the impacts of climate …
Modified scheme benefits tenants and covers all food grain Crop insurance scheme is being implemented as modified national agricultural insurance scheme in all the 13 blocks in Pudukottai district during 2013-14 based on the administrative sanction accorded by the Centre and approval by the State government. Under the scheme, weather-based …
Smarting under the effects of an unprecedented natural calamity in June, the Uttarakhand government is working on a Rs 9,000-crore action plan to minimize the impact of climate change in the state. The plan was presented on Tuesday by the State Council for Climate Change to chief secretary Subhash Kumar, …
Funds of Rs 600 crore have been released till July 31st this year under the National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) said Tariq Anwar, minister of state for agriculture and food processing industries. ""Funds of Rs 2660 crore, Rs 360 crore, Rs 700 crore and Rs 600 crore have been released …
The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) is anguished over the alarming rate of suicides occurring in the farming community ever since the advent of the new economic policy, said N. Varadharajan, national general secretary of the Sabha. According to statistics, over three 3 lakh farmers ended their lives across the …
This paper identifies sixteen cases of large-scale actions in the agriculture and forestry sectors that have adaptation and /or mitigation outcomes, and distils lessons from the cases. The cases cover policy and strategy development (including where climate-smart objectives were not the initial aim), climate risk management through insurance, weather information …
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN once sang about “going on the town now looking for easy money”. As easy money goes, it is hard to beat farm subsidies. Handouts for American farmers were a tasty $256 billion between 1995 and 2012. The fattest subsidies went to the richest farmers. According to a study …
The Agriculture Policy-2013 will mark a watershed in the agri-horticulture development while driving the food processing sector in the State, Minister for MSME Damodar Rout said here on Thursday. With the State having huge potential for development of horticulture and food processing industries by virtue of its strategic geographic location …
