Agriculture

 NAFTA kicks in, Mexican farmers protest

The full introduction of the North American Free Trade Agreement (nafta) has raised concerns among Mexico's farmers who are agitating against it. With nafta kicking in fully on January 1, 2008,

Publication Date: 
14/02/2008
Down to Earth
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Agriculture, Trade, Farmers, Subsidies, Exports, Mexico
Industry

 Authorities cluelessÀ Carcinogen NP in a large number of products in India.

Ana M Soto, professor at the Tufts Medical School at Massachusetts in the us, made an important discovery while working with breast cancer cells in 1989. She found that some of the tissues were

Publication Date: 
14/01/2008
Arnab Pratim Dutta
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Pesticides, Health Effects, Chemical Industry, Pesticide Industry, Textile Industry, Cancer, Trade, Hazardous Products, Exports, Imports, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Toxins
India

 Dairy paradox

Conditions are ripe for an upturn in India's dairy sector. The government has lifted its ban on the export of milk powder at a time when increasing demand is sending prices of dairy products

Publication Date: 
30/12/2007
Down to Earth
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Animal Care, Fodder, Livestock, Cattle, Dairy Development, Milk, Milk Products, Food Policy, Food Prices, Trade, Subsidies, Exports, Cooperatives, New Zealand, India, European Union (EU)
India

 India bans export of non basmati rice

the Union government increased the minimum support price of wheat, paddy, sugarcane, mustard, rapeseed and other agricultural commodities on October 9. The announcement was made after the Cabinet

Publication Date: 
14/11/2007
Down to Earth
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Rice, Basmati Rice, Wheat, Sugarcane, Food Policy, Food Prices, Sugar Industry, Ethanol, Trade, Farmers, Subsidies, Exports, Cooperatives, India
Food Policy

 Reduce pasta prices, say Italians

Pasta-loving Italians observed a one-day

Publication Date: 
14/10/2007
Down to Earth
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Wheat, Food Policy, Food Prices, Trade, Exports, Syria, Italy
Industry

 The China affair: what it means to us

A journalist recently called me to check if I thought that India had the same food consumer product record as China. He wanted to know if we face the problems that are plaguing Chinese exports of

Publication Date: 
14/09/2007
Sunita Narain
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Agriculture, Organic Farming, Food Standards, Food Process Industry, Trade, Consumption Patterns, Exports, Imports, Industry, China, India, Developing Countries, Toxic Wastes
Industry

 State of supply

Data compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) show that in 2004, though production of most cereals decreased as compared to 1990, exports increased. Similarly, the production of pulses and groundnut decreased but exports increased. In both cases, domestic consumption too decreased. In the case of wheat, however, all three indicators showed a rise.

Publication Date: 
30/03/2007
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Food Prices, Processed Foods, Food Process Industry, Trade, Health, Consumption Patterns, Exports, FAO, India
Industry

 Agriculture: Don't fix is the government's fix

It can be said that Union budget, 2007, is high on symbolism and intent. Most people in and close to power acknowledge that something is spoiling booming India s party price rise, agricultural

Publication Date: 
30/03/2007
Sunita Narain
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Agriculture, Wheat, Legumes, Food Policy, Food Prices, Water Management, Trade, Economy, Farmers, Rural Development, Economic Development, Finance, Subsidies, Exports, Imports, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Industry, India
Energy

Key world energy statistics 2007

Key World Energy Statistics contains timely, clearly-presented data on the supply, transformation and consumption of all major energy sources.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2007
OECD
Tags:
Coal, Hydroelectricity, Energy, Oil, Natural Gas, Oil Products, Exports, Imports, Global, Statistics
Agriculture

 EC stops import of US long grain rice

Following the us government's announcement that an illegal and untested genetically modified strain had contaminated its conventional long-grain rice, the European Commission has stopped its

Publication Date: 
29/09/2006
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Agriculture, Rice, Food Adulteration, Trade, Exports, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, European Union (EU)

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