Reply affidavit on behalf of the Central Ground Water Board in the matter of Suo Moto case titled "Haryana 60.48% groundwater over exploited Kurukshetra worst Jhajjar best says" appearing in the Tribune, January 8, 2025. The CGWA report, May 3, 2025 addresses the issue of groundwater exploitation and violation of …
Unemployment is a common global economic malady, the level of which distinctly varies between developed and underdeveloped nations with Keynesian involuntary and frictional type in respect of developed nation and structural type in regard to an under developed country like India which attributes to maximum growth of population and insignificant …
Tripura Governor D N Sahaya has assured that the newly formed Left Front Government in Tripura would give utmost importance to eradication of poverty and improvement of overall socioeconomic condition of the people. Addressing the first session of the 10th Tripura Legislative Assembly here yesterday, Sahaya said a number of …
Agribusiness Support Fund (ASF) has launched 'Participatory Rapid Horticulture Appraisal' scheme to conduct a rapid appraisal of the horticulture sub-sector with an aim to identify those horticulture crops, which offer the greatest potential for growth. Under this scheme, ASF would focus on 17-key horticulture crops throughout Pakistan. These are mango, …
Provincial Irrigation Minister Senator Dilawar Abbas met Caretaker Chief Minister Punjab former Justice Ejaz Nisar at Chief Minister's Secretariat here Tuesday and gave him a detailed briefing regarding ongoing projects in irrigation sector. Former Justice Ejaz Nisar said that huge funds were being spent on strengthening of irrigation sector for …
Sangli/Osmanabad: The government has got a reminder on Rahul Gandhi's "suggestion' to expand the scope of the Rs 60,000 crore farm waiver, with Congress chief Sonia Gandhi declaring that she has told PM Manmohan Singh and finance minister P Chidambaram to relax the twohectare eligibility criterion for relief for the …
Amul, a major manufacturer of ice-creams in the country, has switched to natural vanilla flavour in its entire range of vanilla ice-creams, to save the farmers in Kerala. Claiming that the Amul was the first national brand to use natural vanilla extracts instead of synthetic vanilla, a spokesman of the …
Out of all the things that this Union Budget has talked about, whether it's increasing the slabs for personal income tax that helps the middle classes, or reducing customs and excise duties to enhance consumption, or unprecedented increases in financial allocation to education, health and skill development, the one thing …
The Budget 2008-09 looks a bit archaic when Finance Minster Mr Chidambaram chanted the social sector mantra leaving aside the reform mantra. In the process the budget has overlooked some very important emerging sectors in world economy. For example the estimated market value of organic food products across the world …
Various farmers/agriculturist bodies have accused the caretaker government of releasing 600,000 acre feet of water in January from the reservoirs to produce electricity instead of conserving it for crucial watering of wheat crop in the month of March. Founder President of Punjab Water Council, Farooq Bajwa told Business Recorder here …
Bangladesh should allocate government lands among landless people, who contribute to the overall agriculture production and national economy, International Land Coalition director Bruce H Moore said in Dhaka on Sunday. The country also needs enforcement of the regulations on sharecropping and ensuring fair employment conditions and wages for agriculture workers …
THE BJP has demanded that the Centre demonstrate that it was serious about ameliorating the condition of farmers by preparing a ten-year action plan for the revival of the sector. The BJP has promised that it would reduce the interest rate for loans to the farm sector to 4%, given …
The ongoing implementation of the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) in the State is expected to result in substantial increase in the area of summer paddy, and consequently, greater production. The projection for summer paddy extension is 3.75 lakh hectares as against the existing 3.13 lakh hectares (2006-07), an increase …
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the most comprehensive repository of the world's agricultural diversity created in the remote island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic, is a symbol of humanity's concern for its long-term future. The vault is the international community's response to the many challenges to agriculture, the most formidable …
The funding package announced by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram though belated should go a long way in dispelling doubts over the United Progressive Alliance government's showpiece farm loan waiver programme that is going to be one of the main planks for the forthcoming general election. The Rs.60,314 crore scheme providing …
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation plc of London, Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) Australia and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), Colombo have agreed to provide US$ 16.1 mn for the implementation of the Sustainable Water Assistance Management Project Phase II. The project will be financed with …
Growing food has always been a struggle, and it is only thanks to modern agricultural research that most people now have enough to eat. Today we need that research more than ever. The growing demand for meat can only add to the strain on grain supplies, as livestock need to …
Late last month the Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened in Longyearbyen, on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The facility is nothing less than a Noah's ark of plants for the 21st century, aiming to preserve the world's crop biodiversity while we still have a fighting chance.
The small farmer might be the solution to the ongoing crisis in the farming sector in India. Policies need to be geared towards helping small farmers perform agricultural operations and marketing their products with greater efficiency. Instead, current policies are hoping to dispossess farmers of their livelihood and push them …
A wheat disease that could destroy most of the world's main wheat crops could strike south Asia's vast wheat fields two years earlier than research had suggested, leaving millions to starve. The fungus, called Ug99, has spread from Africa to Iran, and may already be in Pakistan.
