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 …
Hambantota District is a major paddy (rice) producing area in the southern coastal region of Sri Lanka. Communities here have been experiencing salt water intrusion into their rice fields, leading to reduced yields. This has been caused largely by seawater contamination of irrigation systems. Farmers had been using saline-resistant varieties …
This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that spatial variations in soil microbial variables in a Thai rice paddy are accurately described by multivariate profiles of the soil bacterial communities. The authors found that community-level physiological profiles of soil bacterial communities could better describe the population density of Rhizoctonia …
This paper highlights published cases related to various climatic conditions that have impacts on rice cultivation practices. Due to the needs to continue rice farming, whether for traditional, cultural or economic reasons, rice farmers in Asia resorted to various adaptation practices that might have deviated from their common practices. This …
Manipur farmers have started to face the impact of the recent drought-like situation in the harvest season here. Hundreds of farmers in Imphal East district having paddy area of 26,584 hectares were disappointed recently when they were greeted by
Pakistan is lagging far behind in paddy cultivation as it was harvesting only 23 varieties out of the total 100. This was stated by Gada Hussain Mahisar, Vice-President, Sindh Abadgar Board (SAB) at a seminar on Thursday. Speakers said that the country can only benefit if new varieties with promising …
Bangladesh said Wednesday it had developed three varieties of flood-resistant rice, set for commercial launch early next year, to help its millions of poor farmers fight the effects of climate change. The state-run Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) said the three strains can survive under water for more than 15 …
In what appears to be a move to cool international prices, the government has said it would not go in for rice imports as it has enough stocks to manage despite a 15 million tonne kharif production shortfall. The decision not to import comes with a caveat that India can …
Against the backdrop of rising global prices, the government on Friday decided against rice import stating it has enough stocks to manage demand despite a shortfall of 15 million tonnes in Kharif production. "We are not importing (rice). We have adequate stocks. We will review if there is any need …
THE Congress and BJP have promised to provide rice and wheat at subsidised rates for the BPL families of Jharkhand where five-phase Assembly pollsbeginfromNovember25. While the Congress has promised to bring down the price of rice and wheat to Rs 3 each per kg, the BJP has made a commitment …
Cyclone Aila has altered their calculations. Hit by crop failure due to increased salinity caused by sea water surge, the farmers of the Sunderbans were pinning hope on the low-yield but salt-resistant paddy varieties that their forefathers cultivated. Only to realise that the high-yield varieties that they had preferred to …
Chandigarh: In a move to facilitate smooth lifting of paddy from the mandis, the Punjab government has amended the provisions of paddy procurement policy to enhance the eligibility quota of the rice mills by 500 MT of paddy per mill. Food and civil supplies department, Punjab DS Grewal on Tuesday …
The Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council (KAAC) Agriculture Department under the initiative of the district administration launched crop harvesting mission on Thursday to get the actual output report of the extra yield variety Arize 6444 of hybrid rice technology whose demonstration was conducted under the National Food Security Mission (NFSM). In …
The Centre has today finalised a plan for taking up additional crop area under the summer Boro and rabi rice in Assam. Addressing the members of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to the Ministries of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution here today, Union Minister Sharad Pawar said …
BHOPAL: A Day after Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar indicated that there was little likelihood of prices coming down, the Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday announced that it would sell cheap foodgrain in urban areas. Elections to municipal corporations and other urban bodies are due and the notification will be announced …
Shocked over the decision to import 2 million tonnes of rice, farmers said while the Centre was ready to give high price for the rice to be imported from abroad, it was not ready to give drought relief and adequate bonus to Punjab farmers, who would contribute more than 85 …
KOLLAM: Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran has said that the databank on paddy fields lying barren in the State will be published soon. Inaugurating the district-level Official Language Week celebrations and the seminar on the conservation of paddy fields and wetlands here on Sunday, the Minister said that any encroachment on …
