India's vegetables production is estimated to have increased by over five per cent to 14.1 crore tonnes in 2010-11, Parliament was informed today. The country's vegetables production was 13.3 crore tonnes in 2009-10, Minister of State for Agriculture Arun Yadav said in a written reply to Lok Sabha. Cultivation of major vegetables including onion, potato, brinjal, cabbage, cauliflower, peas and okra saw a rise during the period, he said. Giving details, he said...
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Eight recipes to food for all by Olivier De Schutter
World Bank president Robert Zoellick recently listed nine measures that the G20 should adopt under its current French presidency. These range from improving information about grain stocks and developing better weather-forecasting methods to strengthening social safety nets for the poor and helping small farmers benefit from tenders from humanitarian purchasers such as the World Food Programme . These measures tackle only the symptoms of the global food system's weaknesses, leaving the...
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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGS) is bringing about a silent revolution in rural areas in this drought-prone district. The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, inaugurated the programme in a remote village, Bandlapalli, in Anantapur district on February 2, 2006. Since then, the scheme has been providing employment to rural youth and checking migration from the district. About 700 residents in Malakavaripalli thanda in Tumula village panchayat in...
More »South India chosen for most of oil palm boost by Sanjeeb Mukherjee
Centre to also give 50% subsidy for new mills, technical help to cultivators. The Union agriculture ministry has identified eight states where the Budget annoucement on expanding the area under oil palm Cultivation can be implemented. It has decided to provide 50 per cent subsidy for setting up palm oil extraction units. India imports about 8.2 million tonnes of edible oil in a year and 80 per cent of this is palm...
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