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 …
Production of rice will slow down as temperatures increase in rice-growing areas with continued climate change warns this new study published in latest edition of PNAS. Is based an analysis of 6 years of data from the major rice-growing countries in Asia. See Also Report: A framework for adapting Indian …
Vidarbha is green again, the rains have finally come, and at least at this point of time, seem to have come to stay their entire term, unlike the previous years when the it simply disappeared after giving us a false hopes of a normal monsoon. Here the article takes a …
Vietnam is likely to be among the countries hardest hit by climate change, mainly through rising sea levels and changes in rainfall and temperatures. Agriculture can be extensively affected by climate change, and designing effective adaptation strategies will be critical for maintaining food security, rural employment, and foreign exchange earnings.
This paper attempts a decomposition analysis of Poverty scenario in UP during 1993-94 and 2004-05. It was found that poverty has decreased but inequality has increased between these years. The main problems in the state are stark inter-region and intra-region differences. A positive observation is that the poorest region in …
MAHABUBNAGAR A Shekhar, 25, committed suicide a year ago. A resident of Burgupalle village in Andhra Pradesh’s Mahabub - nagar district, he had bought half a hectare (ha) for growing paddy. He borrowed Rs 1.5 lakh to sink three borewells but did not find groundwater. Shekhar could not repay the …
The million-odd users of groundwater in Andhra Pradesh need a new form of regulation, everybody agrees. The system based on permits—under WALTA—only adds to the transaction cost of farmers. The fact is there is a desperation to dig and then dig deeper. There is no estimation how much the farmers—private …
THE benign mychorrhizal fungi live in a mutually beneficial arrangement in the roots of most plants. They help the plant absorb essential nutrients like phosphorous and in return receive carbohydrates from the plant. But they do not bond with major food crops like rice. Swiss researchers recently claimed they can …
The farmers in Kurigram have started the cultivation of short duration rice during the rainy season. Farmers and farm labourers are now busy with preparing land and planting seedlings in their field ignoring heavy showers of rain. The target of cultivation of short duration rice in five districts of Greater …
Unjustified and impractical legal requirements are stopping genetically engineered crops from saving millions from starvation and malnutrition, says Ingo Potrykus.
New Delhi: With foodgrain stocks mounting and good monsoons promising yet another bumper harvest, government has decided to export around 300,000 tonne of wheat and rice to Bangladesh and Nepal through diplomatic channels. It has also decided to grant infrastructure statues to godowns and warehouses constructed through private participation which …
With the growing threat of food insecurity and a largely erratic rainfall pattern, Kerala, despite its very high rate of annual precipitation, has embarked on a series of large budget irrigation schemes. However, with the shift in acreage in favour of certain cash crops which demand relatively less moisture, the …
Chandigarh: Flooding has threatened paddy transplantation in fields in Punjab, especially in the Sangrur district, there are apprehensions that wheat sowing in November would be an uphill task. A central team on Tuesday visited flood-ravaged areas of Moonak to take stock of the devastation caused by the flood and voiced …
Most people think there are two kinds of rice, a handful of coarse varieties and some refined versions like basmati. Wrong. There are actually thousands of indigenous varieties of rice, some of which could ensure permanent food security. Consider this. * Besariya is a traditional rice variety of Bihar that …
BV Mahalakshmi Hyderabad: As part of one of its thrust areas for the current year, National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development (Nabard) is promoting the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method of cultivation across the country. SRI is quite popular in the southern rice-growing states such as Karnataka, Tamil …
In the wake of runaway inflation and the ensuing food crisis, the prime minister constituted three high-powered committees of chief ministers and central ministers to recommend ways of containing inflation, improving PDS and boosting agricultural production. The Working Group on agricultural production was chaired by Haryana chief minister B S …
Examining:Collector M. Jayaraman evaluating the performance of weeder equipment at Tharuvai near Palayamkottai in Tirunelveli on Thursday. TIRUNELVELI: Collector M. Jayaraman evaluated the performance of the newly introduced weeder equipment in the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) paddy fields at Tharuvai near here on Thursday. The mechanised weeder, using petrol …
A demand to reintroduce a universal Public Distribution System (PDS) in the country appears every now and then. Its proponents argue that universal access is necessary for ensuring food security, for better control on prices and for eliminating (at least partially) the evils of exclusion errors in the targeted PDS. …
ROHIT KHANNA Kolkata: At a time when productivity is dwindling in West Bengal, farmers are trying out a new method, Systemic Rice Intensification, to increase productivity. The new method uses 40% less water and has helped increase production by 20% in some blocks of the state. The new mode of …
In recent decades, market forces have prompted farmers in the Sunderbans to choose modern, high-yielding varieties of paddy, oblivious to their sensitivity to salt. Cyclone Aila, which caused a huge inundation of salt in the fields, proved that this was a costly mistake: every farmer who sowed the modern seed …
