-The Hindu Business Line World over rice production is likely to fall due to a combination of drought and floods Three developments over the past couple of months have put the global rice market in focus. First, the India curbed rice exports by banning shipments of fully broken rice and imposing a 20 per cent duty on white rice exports. Second, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar told the...
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Koraput tribal women rise above the rest, save traditional rice variety from extinction -Prativa Ghosh
-101reporters.com Kala Jeera rice cultivation and its marketing through an e-commerce platform bring better income and social status to women farmers, while also ensuring storage of good quality seeds for future needs Koraput, Odisha: Odisha’s near-extinct Kala Jeera rice is making a comeback, thanks to the tribal women who are cultivating and marketing it to the outside world from Machhara village in Koraput district with the help of MS Swaminathan Research Foundation...
More »A year of extreme weather events has weighed heavy on India’s agricultural sector -Vivek Gupta
-India.mongabay.com * After the drop in wheat production due to heat waves, extreme weather events have now cast a shadow on rice production, which is likely to drop beyond centre’s initial 6% loss estimate. * In six years (2015-21), the country lost 33.9 million hectares of the cropped area due to floods and excess rains and 35 million hectares due to drought, which are likely to intensify as various studies predict. * Centre...
More »Climate crisis threatens India’s food security, warn scientists -Zia Haq
-Hindustan Times Climate scientists have warned that scorching heatwaves in India, among other extreme weather events, are “most certainly” being driven by global warming, posing a risk to the country’s food security. Heatwaves in the country, which shaved off 3 million tonne of wheat output this year compared to the year before, are being driven by changing weather patterns induced by global warming, scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune,...
More »More bad news after inflation hits 5-month high: Wheat stocks at 6-yr low, ‘rice output to fall’ -Sayantan Bera
-ThePrint.in Wheat stocks are half of where they stood in October 2021. Public stocks of rice are nearly double stocking norm, but price outlook depends on actual harvest this season. New Delhi: Despite the unabated rise in food prices, which drove retail inflation to a five-month high of 7.41 per cent in September, there is limited legroom for the government to intervene in the market by selling public stocks to cool prices. Data...
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