Asian countries, including India, are facing a worsening water crisis that threatens to curtail food production while taking an increasingly heavy toll on the region's economies, the Asian Development Bank said today.
Governments, industries and people around the region urgently need to stop wasting so much of the precious resource if they are to limit the shortage, ADB infrastructure advisor A
Indian agriculture is already increasingly demand-driven. This will accelerate in future. More than two decades ago, we argued that agricultural diversification in India was basically driven by higher growth and domestic demand. The major impact of faster income growth was on domestic demand, leading a process of demand diversification in a big way.
The Asian Development Bank, which will lend up to $250 million (about Rs1,124 crore) for the protection of the coastline in Goa, Karnataka and Maharashtra, as part of a Sustainable Coastal Protection and Management Investment Programme, has agreed to release the first tranche of the loan
SHILLONG, Oct 5: In a series of meeting held between the Meghalaya Chief Secretary and other senior officials of Finance, Health & Family Welfare, Education and Industries and Commerce departments since yesterday, a delegation of Asian Development Bank (ADB) has identified some areas on a priority basis.
Guwahati, Oct. 4: The decks have been cleared for approval of the $120 million ADB-funded Assam Integrated Flood and Riverbank Erosion Risk Management Investment Program as negotiations with Assam and the Centre have been completed.
THE government, in the dock recently for poor quality of its macroeconomic data, got a shot in the arm on Tuesday when two independent agencies backed its upbeat growth forecast, despite concerns over high inflation and a strong local currency.
Multilateral lender Asian Development Bank (ADB) raised the country
Mumbai: The Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), and the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) have joined forces to tackle widespread hunger and build food security throughout the Asia and Pacific region.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending a $170-million multitranche financing facility for modernising the horticulture industry in Bihar and Maharashtra.
This is expected to boost earnings of farmers and other vulnerable rural groups.
ADB today approved the facility for the Agribusiness Infrastructure Development Investment Programme, which will fund physical and institutional links a
Finds CEPT-AMC Survey On Water Usage
Paul John | TNN
Ahmedabad: Even if Amdavadis do understand the value for money, they surely do not value precious resource water much despite living in a water scarce state.
