Rahul Gandhi: “I feel ashamed to call myself an INDIAN after seeing what has happened here in UP”. Dear. Mr. Rahul Gandhi…PLEASE DON’T BE ASHAMED OF U.P. YET Please don’t be ashamed of Uttar Pradesh yet. Congress ruled the State for the Majority of the duration Pre Independence to Post Independence.. from 1939 to 1989 [...]

1935 was one of the peak years with soil from 50 million acres blowing. 11 The storms were huge, some 600 by 400 miles, lasting 10 hours or more. One dust storm in May 1934 started in Montana and spread south. It covered an area 1,500 by 900 miles, lasted 36 hours, and carried some [...]

HYDERABAD, JUNE 29: Farmers by and large never sit idle, even when they are protesting. Thousands of farmers in East and West Godavari, Krishna districts, who have declared a crop holiday to an extent of two lakh acres this kharif, are not the ones to waste time. While making their protest heard in the State [...]

NEW DELHI: Taking a U-turn, Food Minister K V Thomas today said he was not opposed to allowing exports of foodgrains and a decision on the issue will be taken by a panel of ministers at the earliest. The government in early 2007 had banned shipment of wheat and later in April, 2008 restricted exports [...]

NEW DELHI: India’s food ministry is not against grains exports and a panel of ministers will decide on rice and wheat exports, the food minister said on Wednesday, without specifying any time frame. “Food ministry is not negative to exports, but we will have to look at the demand in view of the Food Security [...]

NEW DELHI: At long last, the Centre is likely to open up foodgrain exports, albeit in a capped manner. Food minister K V Thomas said here today that his ministry was “not averse” to opening up grain exports “at the earliest.” “We’re not negative to it. We’re reviewing grain needed for servicing the right to [...]

Punjab has had a bumper wheat crop this year, the yield touching 135 lakh metric tons. But the storage agencies in the state have only 30 Lakh MT of indoor space, that is already occupied by the stocks of previous batches. Wheat of the older batches is dotting several places in Punjab and Haryana where [...]

Seed is the only part of the agricultural chain that is growing at 20% a year and is insulated from both government subsidies and weather vagaries. And, in the clamour for higher yields and greater farmer acceptance, seed companies are hitting a sweet spot in innovation, reports Nidhi Nath Srinivas  Economic Times (New Delhi), 28th [...]

Ravish Tiwari Posted online: Tue Jun 28 2011, 01:17 hrs In 2007-08, staring at a global food crisis, a nervous government banned export of wheat and non-basmati rice without bothering to create the space for the stocks the country would hold back.Today, with the granaries overflowing, the government is struggling rid itself of stocks that [...]