-The Hindu The Shanta Kumar Committee's recommendations to unbundle the Food Corporation of India are in tune with U.S.-LED demands raised in the World Trade Organization The Shanta Kumar Committee report, released last week, on a range of issues relating to procurement, storage and distribution of food grains is not only deeply flawed in its reading of the situation on food security, but also short on facts. It was prepared under the...
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India, US disagree over food security
-PTI GENEVA: Disagreements flared up between the US and India here today at the first informal meeting to find a permanent solution on public stockholding for food security in developing countries. The G-33 countries LED by India and including China want public stockholding for food security purposes to come under the "Green Box" -- domestic support for agriculture that causes minimal or no trade distortion. Please click here to read more. ...
More »Land Acquisition Ordinance faces greater opposition -Smita Gupta
-The Hindu Opposition to amendments in the Land Acquisition Act that were brought through an ordinance by the Modi government recently is growing. Political parties, farmers' organisations affiliated to political parties as well as civil society movements across the country have expressed their reservation to it. On Wednesday, the Ajit Singh-LED Rashtriya Lok Dal staged protests against the ordinance: across Uttar Pradesh, party activists raised slogans against the BJP-LED NDA government, at...
More »Monocropping to hurt cotton farmers in Gujarat -Tomojit Basu
-The Hindu Business Line Mehsana (Gujarat): A monocropping culture, driven by healthy returns, threatens to hurt cotton farmers in Mehsana and other districts in the country's largest cotton-producing State, say agriculture experts working in the region. As the price of cotton slips due to excess supply and China scaling back on purchases, farmers in north Gujarat risk mounting their losses and the likelihood of reduced sowing in May. They had increased cotton...
More »US offers clean energy assistance
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The US today pLEDged financial and technical assistance to help India expand its renewable energy programme, monitor air quality over its cities and improve India-specific climate forecasts among new initiatives on energy and climate. A joint statement issued tonight after delegation-level talks LED by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama outlined proposed actions that could help India curb its growth of greenhouse gas emissions and...
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