Further releases to be based on inflows into Kabini and Krishnarajasagar

The goodwill gesture extended by Karnataka to release 10,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu till September 20 has come to an end and further releases are expected to be purely based on the inflows into the Kabini and the Krishnarajasagar reservoirs, given the differences that have cropped up after a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority.

Report says 10% objective competes with food production and should be scrapped in effort to reduce food price spikes

World leaders have shown prudence in the face of rising food prices by avoiding harmful steps such as export embargoes, the United States said on Monday after France called an emergency meeting of

A second science-based Green Revolution is needed for increasing rice productivity as the health of rice-based systems determines the fate of Indian agriculture, Robert S. Zeigler, director general, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines, said here on Friday.

At a seminar on “Rice Research Innovations for Addressing Global Food Security in a Changing Climate” held at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in connection with the Centenary Year of the Paddy Breeding Station, he said that this revolution would be made possible by tapping innovations in genetics, molecular biology and plant physiology, and linking soil biology and chemistry.

It is ‘misleading’ IMD categorised some districts as normal: Pawar

The Union government on Wednesday announced relief measures for the drought-hit areas, including an increase in the number of assured workdays under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to 150 from 100 days and reduction in the interest on crop loans to 7 per cent from 12 per cent during the current fiscal.

But people are not receptive to the idea of discussing it, he laments

Union Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal on Wednesday said there was need for general consensus and cooperative federalism on sharing of river waters. Inaugurating a seminar on ‘Inter-linking of Rivers: Issues and Challenges,’ he said transfer of water from surplus river basins to deficit ones was an effective way of increasing the irrigation potential for enhancing grains production, mitigating floods and droughts and reducing regional imbalances in water availability.

Shettar would hold another round of floor leaders' meeting on Sept 15 before attending the CRA meeting

An all-party meeting convened by Karnataka government on Tuesday resolved to urge the Cauvery River Authority headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to evolve a distress formula based on ground realities on sharing of the river waters with Tamil Nadu and other riparian states. A consensus to this effect was reached at a meeting of floor leaders of political parties in the state legislature, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, who convened the meeting ahead of the CRA meeting to be held on September 19 in Delhi, told reporters here.

Farm income expectations in key Midwestern states for the third quarter have been badly dented by the harsh drought, according to a report released by the Federal Reserve Bank of St.