The Bank of Khyber (BoK) has formally launched the Crop Insurance Scheme for agricultural loans after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Insurance Corporation (NIC) in its Peshawar head office.
NABARANGPUR: Spectre of a drought-like situation haunts farmers in this predominantly tribal district due to insufficient rains during the recent kharif season. Being an agrarian district, 90 percent population here depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Bereft of irrigation facilities, the farming community largely depend on rains for agriculture.
Agriculture Development Minister Maithripala Sirisena told Parliament yesterday that it is a matter for shame that Sri Lanka still imports Kurakkan every year.
Minister Sirisena said the country still imports grains such as cowpea, and an import tax had been imposed in the budget to discourage the influx of such foreign items to the local market.
Global wheat and other cereals output will jump to record highs this year, but the financial crisis is likely to hit the world farming sector and may trigger a new price surge next year, UN
Minister of science technology and environment Bikram Singh Majithia today called on farm scientists of the world develop strains of crops resistant to global warming.
This agrofuel watch guideline is supposed to be applied for monitoring of the status of the right to food in the context of expansions of agro-fuel at community level. The study includes Case studies of Violations of Right to Food due to Agro-fuel Cultivation in India.
Cyclone Rashmi which hit the south early Monday has damaged crops on 2.28 lakh hectares of land in 11 districts of Barisal agriculture region and on about 1 lakh hectares in Jhenaidah, officials concerned feared.
