Massive grain procurement to meet the requirements under the proposed national food security law could drive out the private sector and have larger implications on the state of the domestic procurement market, a study on food and nutritional security has warned.
Apart from impacting exports and cereal price in the open market, rising public procurement will only make it costly to buy, store, tran
MUMBAI: Alarmed by the massive damage caused to food crops the agricultural produce by monkeys, neighbouring the Ratnagiri zilla parishad has prepared an ambitious Rs 50 lakh plan to tackle the menace.
''Farmers in the Konkan region were facing a lot of problems due to the increasing monkey menace in the entire Konkan region were passing through a critical period owing to exponential growth in
Punjab is heading towards record production of wheat this season. Reports emerging from Malwa, Majha and Doaba regions have clearly indicated that the state
This position paper by the National Rainfed Area Authority attempts to address the challenges of food security through analysis of the present trend of growth in production, procurement and safe storage of different foodgrain crops, their future potential and possible impact on national food security of diversification into non-PDS, fruits, vegetables and other commercial crops.
This paper examines the potential health effects of foods derived from genetically modified (GM) plants. While such an important topic, the database on the likely biological effects of GM foods is woefully inadequate.
The Asia-Pacific Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology (APCoAB) and Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences (TAAS) organized a “Stakeholders’ Interface on GM Food Crops” on 19 May 2011 at National Agricultural Science Complex, New Delhi to deliberate on issues related to adoption of GM food crops in India.
JAIPUR: A two-day state level workshop on Kharif-2011 kicked-off at Jawahar Kala Kendra (JKK) on Wednesday. R K Meena, principal secretary, department of agriculture, told officials, "We have received a Rs 222-crore grant from the Centre to develop agriculture in the state."
Meena spoke on policies and schemes launched by the Centre.
