Rabi season sees crop damage on 18 m hectares due to unseasonal rain, hail

Copenhagen — A new analysis of the country-level climate plans submitted to the UN ahead of climate talks in Paris (COP21) has uncovered a huge appetite for technical assistance and climate finance

NEARLY 16% of Indonesia’s 250m people survive on $1.90 a day or less, as do more than 6% of Cambodia’s 15m people.

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has advocated subsidy to farmers in Punjab and Haryana for buying equipment that allows them to put the paddy straw back into the ground instead of burn

In what may come as a boon for paddy-dependent states like Odisha, scientists at the Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), Cuttack are on the brink of coming out with a climate resilient variety

Says the actual poverty is much higher than suggested by the multilateral lender, adding there is lack of scientific basis in computing the poverty line

With pulses too expensive and unavailable on PDS, the urban and rural poor are relying heavily on starch for sustenance

Panic-stricken millers turn to govt. for help

State Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister Saryu Roy said that distribution of rice and wheat under the recently rolled out National Food Security Act in Jharkhand would start October