The Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan met the Union
Agriculture Minister Shri Sharad Pawar and urged him to take initiative for
setting up of international wheat and maize research centre at Jabalpur. Minister for Animal Husbandry Shri
Ajay Vishnoi accompanied him.
Shri Chouhan said that 200 acre land would be provided free
of cost near Jabalpur
for the research centre.
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CHANDIGARH: Eminent citizens, farmers and environmental activists on Friday threatened to launch a sustained agitation to oppose entry of BT Maize crop into Punjab and prevent any attempt to jeopardise the country's food sovereignty.
LAHORE (June 17 2010): Institute for Agriculture Research for Maize, Yousafwala (Sahiwal) has developed two hybrid varieties of maize namely FH-810, Yousafwala Hybrid and two synthetic varieties Pearl and MMRI-Yellow.
The relation between climate and maize production in Nepal was studied for the period 1970/71-2007/08. Due to the topographical differences within north-south span of the country, Nepal has wide variety of climatic condition. About 70 to 90% of the rainfall occurs during summer monsoon (June to September) and the rest of the months are almost dry. Maize is cultivated from March to May depending on the rainfall distribution.
A field experiment was conducted during kharif and rabi season to study the organic, integrated and pure chemical fertilizers as a source of nutrition on maize growth, macro and micro nutrient uptake on irrigated sandy loam soil in maize-wheat sequence.
Nearly one sixth of the global population is malnourished. The problem is particularly acute in tropical Africa, where constant or recurrent food shortages affect over 30% of the population
Impacts of climate change vary from region to region. The 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) mentions that drier areas will be affected by more droughts while the rainfall regime, in general, will become
