-The Hindu Business Line APEDA in touch with countries, exporters to ship out requirements, says its chairman With wheat PRIces soaring to a record high of $13.50 a bushel (nearly $500 a tonne) on the Chicago Board of Trade on Friday, India is reaching out to exporters and countries that are looking for wheat supplies. In addition, it is also looking to supply other agricultural commodities such as corn (maize) and rice, which...
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Chhattisgarh farmers frustrated over black marketing of urea -Avdhesh Mallick
-Down to Earth Farmers in the state are not getting urea; if they are, it is at almost double the PRIce Urea PRIces are skyrocketing in Chhattisgarh due to the government’s decisions these days. So bad is the situation that farmers are being forced to buy urea on the black market and then cultivate paddy at a higher cost and bear the losses. Due to this, farmers from Raipur, Mahasamund, Bilaspur and...
More »Cooking oil PRIces spike in India due to Russia-Ukraine crisis -B Krishna Mohan
-TelanganaToday.com Hyderabad: PRIces of cooking oil are on an upwards spiral and have gained up to Rs 25 more per litre. The trade segments attribute the increase in PRIces to the tightening supplies of sunflower and safflower oils, both called as sun oils, to the Russia-Ukraine war. Also, palm oil imports are getting costlier due to the internal trade restrictions of Indonesia, the biggest producer of palm oil. On the other hand,...
More »Why Much Hyped Protection of Ganga Has Not Succeeded in India -Bharat Dogra
-CounterCurrents.org Protection of the Ganga river is one of those tasks in which the government can achieve great success with the enthusisastic involvement of people. Then why is it that success has so far proved so elusive? The available data for Varanasi, the most PRIoritized place for Ganga protection, reveals that in terms of the essential parameters which define acceptable water fit for bathing, the Ganga here remains much more polluted...
More »Value the knowledge of the Ganga’s riverine communities for river’s development -NCAER
-Hindustan Times The National Council of Applied Economic Research recently conducted a study, titled, Livelihood and Health Challenges of Riverine Communities of the River Ganga, in collaboration with the University of Chicago’s Tata Centre for Development to explore the social & economic engagement of the riverine communities on the Ganga in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. A large section of the population living in the Ganga river basin still depends on the...
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