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 …
In 2007-08, staring at a global food crisis, a nervous government banned export of wheat and non-basmati rice without bothering to create the space for the stocks the country would hold back. Today, with the granaries overflowing, the government is struggling rid itself of stocks that it just cannot manage. …
The State Bank of India (SBI) has urged the farmers to avail loans for agriculture from banks and reap the benefit of the interest subvention permitted by the Government of India and the State Government in respect of agricultural crop loan. SBI has already covered 336 villages out of 399 …
Letter to Andhra Pradesh CM from the Millet Network of India on the government's decision to provide an input subsidy for maize farmers to a tune of Rs.5000 per acre.
Or why Bt cotton was introduced in the fields while Bt brinjal was embargoed The fate of the controversial Bt brinjal is blowing in the wind! At a meeting of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), the apex body for transgenic crops in India, several experts favoured a
Agricultural sector is in continuous decline for the last three years, registering an overall 10 percent drop in different major and minor crops output owing to neglected research, discouraging development of local new varieties of crops and allocation of insufficient funds for development. Cotton crop has registered a 10 percent …
As kharif sowing begin in irrigated belts of India, farmers are changing the sowing pattern depending on the remunerative prices they got in the previous year. Cotton prices, which touched a 140-year high this season, is expected to see an increase in acreage in prime growing states of Gujarat and …
Long-awaited showers finally hit French grain fields over the weekend and more rain is expected this week in most key European producers, but it will likely not be enough to reverse drought damage to winter crops. "For the moment it is not a revolution," Strategie Grains head analyst Andree Defois …
High volatility and price swings in food commodities are likely to prevail for the rest of this year and could continue into 2012, UN body Food and Agriculture Organisation today said.
The projections made for pulses production for year 2010-11 in Madhya Pradesh have been upset due to heavy damage to pulses crops by frost and cold waves. It may be mentioned here that projections for pulses are made many times. The projection of pulses production published in the administrative report …
The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2011-2020 says that a good harvest in the coming months should push commodity prices down from the extreme levels seen earlier this year. However, the Outlook states that over the coming decade real prices for cereals could average as much as 20 percent higher and those …
The widespread and increasingly intensive use of glyphosate in association with the use of GM (genetically modified) crops poses further risks to the environment and human health. This report, produced by Greenpeace together with GM Freeze, shows why rigorous assessment of the safety of glyphosate to plant, humans and animals …
The draft Food Security Bill makes it compulsory for state governments to pay a food security allowance to targeted sections in case of failure to supply foodgrain through a sweeping welfare scheme targeted at nearly three-fourths of the population. The amount will be decided by the central government. The draft …
Global food prices continue to rise month after month, driven by longer-term and more recent trends. Financialisation is an important factor among the recent trends. There is strong evidence of correlation among the markets for different financial assets, including stocks/shares, commodities and currencies. Falling asset prices in other financial market …
Pakistan has received a request from a Japanese rice company for growing Japonica rice in Pakistan under a buy-back arrangement amid fears that the tsunami-hit rice fields may take too long to recover from the salt water. The samples of Japonica, a short variety of rice, are expected to be …
KULITHALAI: Farmers should use the latest technology such as solar drier, polyethylene bags, pest trapper for storage of agricultural produce particularly paddy, said resource persons and storage scientists at the inauguration of the two-day training on imparting storage techniques to farmers, here on Tuesday. The training organised by the Central …
Namakkal: General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) K. Varadharajan said that the Tamil Nadu Vivasayegal Sangam (TNVS) that is affiliated to the AIKS and the Tamil Nadu Science Forum would jointly conduct an inclusive field study on the ill effects of endosulfan on farmers, crops, soil, consumers …
