-The Business Standard Panic selling to 'kolhu' (jaggery) units at Rs 160-250 a quintal in western parts of state Lucknow: With uncertainty looming large over sugarcane crushing in Uttar Pradesh (UP), farmers have resorted to selling the cash crop to kolhu (jaggery) units at Rs 160-250 a quintal in western parts of the state. Farmers in Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Baghpat, Meerut and Bijnor have been queuing at kolhus, which make cash payment. There are...
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Government expects bumper crop this year on good monsoon
-PTI NEW DELHI: India is expected to harvest bumper crop this year based on estimates of higher food grains production in Kharif (summer sown) and hopes of better Rabi (winter) crop with enough water in reservoirs, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today. He also said that the agriculture credit has grown by 12.1 per cent during April-August period of this fiscal. "On agriculture, we estimate this would be a very good year. The...
More »Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies-Justin Gillis
-The New York Times Climate change will pose sharp risks to the world's food supply in coming decades, potentially undermining crop production and driving up prices at a time when the demand for food is expected to soar, scientists have found. In a departure from an earlier assessment, the scientists concluded that rising temperatures will have some beneficial effects on crops in some places, but that globally they will make it...
More »Mamata Banerjee stops movement of potatoes from West Bengal, other states hit -Sutanuka Ghosal & Bikash Singh
-The Economic Times KOLKATA/ GUWAHATI: Mamata Banerjee's decision to stop movement of potatoes from the state has made the tuber go beyond the reach of common people in states of Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and the entire north-east. prices have touched the roof in most of these states with people in Assam buying a kilo of potatoes at Rs 45. Traders say that in the last two days, price of...
More »Parikh panel wants diesel price hiked by Rs. 5
-The Hindu Recommends six subsidised LPG cylinders per household in a year The Government-appointed Kirit Parikh Committee has recommended a price increase of Rs. 5 per litre in diesel, Rs. 4 per litre in kerosene, and Rs. 250 in LPG cylinder with immediate effect. It has also recommended that the subsidised LPG cylinders be reduced from the present nine to six cylinders per annum to each household. It has pitched for capping the...
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