Since the discovery of large offshore oil and gas reserves in 2014, Senegal has set its hopes on fossil fuel export revenue to help fund its plans to become an emerging economy by 2035. Senegal is actively seeking investors to help develop its offshore oil and gas reserves – both …
Globalization and technological revolutions are making the world more interconnected. International trade is one of the major approaches linking the world. Since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan shocked the global supply chain, more attention has been paid to the global impact of large-scale disasters. China is the …
New Delhi, March 23: A consortium of industry and government experts has launched an agency to grant domestic certification of forests that will help forest products from India bound for export markets earn stamps of sustainability. The Network for Certification and Conservation of Forests (NCCF) will pencil India-specific standards for …
The report contains major market development trends, policy development in China in the year 2014. It also contains information about wind OEM and developers, as well as provincial/regional breakdown of the wind development.
The world food crisis in 2008 highlighted the susceptibility of the global food system to price shocks. Here we use annual staple food production and trade data from 1992–2009 to analyse the changing properties of the global food system. Over the 18 year study period, we show that the global …
Mining firms from Goa are awaiting reinstatement of environment clearances to resume work at their closed mines in the state, company officials said. “Goa government has revoked its order banning mining. We are waiting for the reinstatement of the environment clearance from MoEF. We hope this will be done as …
Through a detailed analysis of the FAO database, we have constructed a generalized representation of the nitrogen transfers characterizing the current agro-food system (GRAFS) of 12 macro-regions of the world in terms of functional relationships between crop farming, livestock breeding and human nutrition. Based on this model, and maintaining the …
COMMUNITIES in Kilwa District have earned 200,000 US dollars (361.5m/-) from timber exports to Europe in the past ten years. In a statement, Mpingo Conservation and Development Initiative (MCDI) said nine communities set aside 100,000 hectares of village natural forests with sustainable harvesting for exports. "MCDI also supported seven communities …
The EU Tuesday decided to lift a seven-month-long ban on the import of mangoes from India after the world’s biggest producer made significant improvements in plant health controls and certification system, clearing the way for them to return to the 28-member bloc by March. However, the ban on the import …
Global production of all major wood products continued to show steady growth in 2013 for the fourth consecutive year, according to new data published by FAO. While the production of industrial roundwood, sawnwood, wood pellets and wood-based panels have fully recovered from the economic downturn in 2008-2009, global production of …
This statistics incorporates provisional information regarding coal, coal products & lignite of the preceding financial year along with past few years on reserve, production, despatches, pit-head closing stock, import and export of coal etc. It also contains information regarding captive blocks.
Humans increase the amount of reactive nitrogen (all N species except N2) in the environment through a number of processes, primarily food and energy production. Once in the environment, excess reactive nitrogen may cause a host of various environmental problems. Understanding and controlling individual nitrogen footprints is important for preserving …
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday (30) has instructed the relevant officials to do a thorough study on the European Union's ban of Sri Lanka's fishery products exports and get the ban removed. The President also instructed the Sri Lankan Navy to assist in preventing illegal fishermen entering the …
Poultry farmers can now afford to count their profits before their chickens hatch -and they are big, weighing on average twice as much as they did 50 years ago.The broiler chicken of today ,a product of controlled breeding, weighs around 2.2kg as compared to 1.2kg before 1960, say veterinarians and …
In Brazil, which is the world’s biggest sugarcane producer, the federal government realized this scenario offered a great opportunity for transforming the country into the world’s biggest ethanol producer and exporter. However several facts relating to global and national aspects reversed the tendency towards increase of domestic consumption and ethanol …
The establishment of a comprehensive horticulture database is crucial for ensuring effective planning to facilitate a systematic development of the horticulture sector in the country. The data also helps in exploiting the huge export potential for the sector. The present “Hand book on Horticulture Statistics” has been divided into seven …
Growth rebounded significantly due to strong industrial recovery aided by growth in investment and exports. Capital flows are back, signaling growing investor confidence, as inflation has moderated from double digits, exchange rate has stabilized, and financial sector stress has plateaued. Monetary policy continuity has been maintained and there has been …
Captains of the industry sector on Thursday urged State Mines Minister P. Sujatha to declare Chimakurthy as a mining zone to fully exploit the black galaxy granite deposits in the area. A delegation of mining firm representatives led by Galaxy Granite Owners’ Association (GGOA) general secretary M.A. Azeem discussed various …
According to sources, several sand and soil exporters had already submitted their proposals to the Commerce Ministry for permission to export sand to Singapore and Maldives Seven recommendations put forward by the committee on the sand export policy were finalised at a meeting on Tuesday. The meeting was held at …
New research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) identifies major financial risks for investors in coal producers around the world, from the domino effect of slowing demand growth in China, where thermal coal demand could peak as early as 2016. CTI’s latest analysis highlights $112billion of future coal mine expansion …
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to lift ban on export of iron ore pellets from Karnataka-based miners, saying its earlier order is clear. A green bench, headed by Justice JS Khehar, while ruling out any possibility of allowing export of iron ore pellets, said its earlier order banning exports …
