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 …
This document contains the presentation made by Umesh Babu at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010. Central to global measures to contain climate change is reduction in emissions of GHGs. Several times, non-annex countries like India and China are blamed for Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, particularly …
Athul Lal A G THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Government has successfully employed the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) to resurrect paddy cultivation in the state. This achievement is a first for the country. Around 2841.24 hectares of fallow land have been brought under paddy cultivation under the (MGNREGS) …
While the moratorium on Bt brinjal has dealt a blow to the scientific community, there are several genetically modifided crops being developed by the Ministry of Agriculture, trials for which are on across the country. Interestingly, as they work on these GM crops, scientists bear it in mind that apart …
From 2003 to their peak in mid 2008, the nominal prices of maize and wheat roughly doubled, while those of rice tripled in a matter of months rather than years. Although fundamental factors were clearly responsible for shifting the world to a higher equilibrium price during this time, there is …
In the 14 years since the first genetically modified crops were planted commercially, their descendants, relatives and remixes have gone forth and multiplied like profitable, high-tech pondweed. A new report (see article) shows that 25 countries now grow GM crops, with the total area under cultivation now larger than Peru. …
Seeking to broadbase the concept of food security, the UPA government is actively considering whether to include coarse grains along with wheat and rice in the food grains basket to be distributed to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) population in the proposed Food Security Act (FSA). As of now, in …
Rice is the latest in a series of brand extensions. Marico has been experimenting with healthy and functional foods under the Saffola brand name for some time now. In the last few years, the brand has been extended to low-sodium salt and atta mixes for diabetics besides the core cooking …
Amid concerns of a rising fiscal deficit, the government is unlikely to include Above Poverty Line (APL) families under the ambit of the proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA). This will mean that the government may not be legally bound to provide 25 kg of rice or wheat to 13.26 …
Offerings are for rainfed areas with low yields. Pioneer Hi-Bred, the seed business of DuPont, plans to launch 16 new hybrids in corn (maize) and rice during the ensuing 2010 planting season.
THANJAVUR: As part of a project on climate change in Cauvery basin and its impact on rice production, a Norwegian team visited Thanjavur district on Thursday. The team, comprising Ole Reidar Bergum, First Secretary, Royal Norwegian Embassy, and Dr.Udayasekar Nagothu, Project co-ordinator, Norwegian Institute of Agriculture and Environment Research (BIO …
The world over and in textbooks of basic economics, price is defined as a function of supply and demand. In India, there is a third variable. It is called politics. Look around and evidence is strewn all over. Everything that is in the domain of private India is getting cheaper--from …
Moga: Reacting to a news item published in these columns on January 4, the top brass of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) had dispatched a technical team of experts to Moga and Ferozepur districts for collecting samples of rice from the storehouses of the corporation. The team led by …
Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has asked the Centre to start the procurement of maize through central government agencies to ensure diversification from the wheat-rice cycle. Expressing concern over depleting water table, Badal has told Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar that unless the state diversified to other crops, the nation
BHAWANIPATNA: Dambarudhar Gartia of Boringpadar village in Narla block harvested 90 quintals of paddy on three acres of land this kharif against 40 quintals during the previous season. This is despite fickle monsoon. He earned Rs 90,000 against an investment of around Rs 5,000. Gartia is not the only farmer …
The present study deals with the impact of agriculture crop residue burning on aerosol properties during October 206 and 2007 over Punjab state, India using ground based measurements and multi-satellite data.
Dark brown seeds pointed at both ends resemble the kind of wild seeds growing just anywhere that children would collect to play with. Only, this seed is one of the rare and nutritious foods losing out to the rush for market food. To the Mahadeo Koli and Thakar tribals in …
KRISHNAGIRI: Officials of the agriculture department have been instructed to produce short film/documentary on cultivation of paddy under System of Rice Intensification (SRI) method and its success stories in the State with inputs from the beneficiaries. The short film/documentary would be screened to the public and in schools. Inspecting the …
Bloomberg SINGAPORE RICE is the only crop in Asia at risk of potential damage from El Nino as the weather phenomenon, which reduces rainfall, weakens and may spare coffee, palm oil, rubber and sugarcane output, an agricultural meteorologist said. Drier-than-normal weather has affected rice crops in Myanmar, Thailand, northern Philippines …
