CEOs need to accelerate their action plans to safeguard the production of commodities critical to the global population and economy as heat stress and drought risk rise around the world, according to PwC's report, Climate Risks to Nine Key Commodities: Protecting People and Prosperity, published. The report, which analysed nine …
M Sarita Varma Thiruvananthapuram: As rubber prices soared to Rs 180 per kg, even land, which is not traditionally best suited for rubber is getting converted in Kerala, thus shrinking the area under paddy cultivation. To stop diversion of paddy area towards rubber farms, the Kerala government has decided to …
BHAWANIPATNA: Even as they are yet to come to terms with the loss sustained due to flash floods, farmers on the banks of Hati and Tel rivers are in the grip of pest epidemic. According to reports available with the Agriculture Department, paddy fields in 107 villages under 10 blocks …
This paper by Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance presents fundamentals of our foodgrain market and policy that leads to this situation and also suggests policies for rectifying this. Analyses some broad principles of economics that have been violated in the existing strategy and explains why …
In agriculture, water plays an important role in crop production. So it is very important to use water very efficiently in crop production and see more grains from every drop of water used in crop cultivation.
Fish consumption is regarded as the primary pathway of methylmercury (MeHg) exposure for most people in the world. However, in the inland regions of China, most residents eat little fish, but they live in areas contaminated with mercury (Hg). To investigate salient MeHg exposure for the general adult population in …
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has released a report, with the Asia Society, by a high-level Task Force on Food Security and Sustainability in Asia titled "Never an Empty Bowl: Sustaining Food Security in Asia." The report presents steps that governments, businesses, NGOs and regional and international organizations can …
* Cotton and paddy crops losses at Rs 71.4 and Rs 56.3bn, respectively * Rice production likely to drop by 27 percent By Sajid Chaudhry ISLAMABAD: Losses to the agriculture sector of the country from the floods have increased to Rs 276 billion against previous estimates of Rs 244.6 billion, …
Chandigarh: The Punjab State Cooperative Supply and Marketing Federation (Markfed) signed a memorandum of understanding with Bayer CropScience, an innovation leader to introduce technologies to promote rice cultivation in the state.Jens Hartmann, country head, India, head of Bayer CropScience, South Asia observed after signing the MoU that
About 78 per cent of rice crop in upper Sindh has been wiped out in floods. According to preliminary estimates of the crop losses submitted to the federal government by the Sindh Agriculture Department, standing rice crops in upper Sindh, mainly Kashmore, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Kandhkot have completely been washed …
A Hamburg-based lab, Eurofins, has alleged high levels of pesticide residue in Indian rice, basmati and non basmati. This is likely to start a long-drawn legal battle and for the time being jeopardise around $300m in basmati exports alone to Europe. The first batch of legal correspondence from the grain …
Aizawl, Aug 12: The Mizoram Government has incurred a loss of Rs 9.66 crore per month for procurement of additional rice at economic price per month.The government has been compelled to procure additional 80,000 quintals of rice per month as the State
BHUBANESWAR: The Rs 2-a-kg rice scheme was launched by the Orissa Government to ensure food security to the poor.But what is happening is the opposite.The worst fallout is coarse grains cultivated dryland/rainfed areas are gradually turning fallow as the traditional coarse grain users no more consume it. This makes the …
BHUBANESWAR: For a BPL household in Orissa, collecting monthly PDS quota involves more walking comparable to its counterparts in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. This problem is more glaring in tribal hinterlands than in coastal areas. A survey by National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD) shows that over 60 per cent …
NEW DELHI, 9 AUG: The government has allowed export of three lakh tons of non-basmati rice and two lakh tons of wheat to Bangladesh.There has been a ban on export of wheat and non-basmati rice since October 2007 and April 2008, respectively, to ensure availability of the foodgrain in the …
NEW DELHI: Punjab lost rice worth Rs 450 crore, more than that of neighbour Haryana, between 2003 and 2008 as the state's procurement far exceeded storage capacity, leading to loss of moisture in the food grain, says a CAG report. "Storage loss in rice observed between 2003-04 and 2007-08 in …
