-The Times of India NEW DELHI: On February 5, 2013, a Supreme Court bench, angry over 1.7 lakh missing children and the government's apathy towards the issue, had remarked: "Nobody seems to care about missing children. This is the irony." Close to one and a half years later, government data show over 1.5 lakh more children have gone missing, and the SITuation remains the same with an average of 45% of them...
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Cultivating rice in hot, humid conditions releases poisonous gases into tubewell pits: Punjab Agricultural UniverSITy experts
-The Times of India LUDHIANA: The soil and water engineering experts of Punjab Agricultural UniverSITy (PAU) have observed that the cultivation of rice in hot and humid climate often results in accumulation of gasses like carbon dioxide and nitrogen in tubewell pits. A K Jain, HoD Soil and Water Engineering, said, "In case a farmer enters the tubewell pit for repair of the pump, he can become unconscious due to less oxygen...
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-The Telegraph Shillong: Scientists have urged farmers in Meghalaya to adopt "climate-smart agriculture" by adhering to recommended climate change mitigation strategies as various parts of the Northeast are facing a drought-like SITuation because of global warming. An awareness-cum-training programme on Contingency Plan for Drought-like SITuation was held recently at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for the northeastern region in Umiam under the National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture project. According to...
More »India Says Confident WTO Will Understand Its Food Security Concerns
-Thomson Reuters India is confident that it will be able to persuade members of the 160-strong World Trade Organisation to understand its concerns over food security which derailed a global trade deal last week, said Commerce Minister Nirmala SITharaman in parliament today. The minister explained India's stand: that the Bali trade accord, an agreement reached on the Indonesian tourist island last year, should be concluded as a package, linking India's ratification of...
More »India mulls food agency reform as 255 million go hungry -Pratik Parija and Prabhudatta Mishra
-Live Mint Narendra Modi is set to form a panel to assess how to overhaul the 50 year-old Food Corporation of India, say sources About thirty miles from New Delhi, a stray dog walks among sacks of wheat rotting in a field. The grain is part of more than 3 million tonnes that India stores in the open exposed to pests and damp, enough to feed Kenya. Simple plastic sheets at the SITe in...
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