The Future of Earth’s Sustainability – Food & Agriculture In the Coming Decade
The Economic Recession to Present Times The 2008 global crisis, created quite a stir in the economy. With recession raising its ugly head and global inflation creating an upheaval, a general atmosphere...
View ArticleWill Agriculture figure in the Agenda of the Modi-Obama meeting?
The big ticket summit between Prime Minister Modi and President Obama is round the corner. What is going to be the Agenda? Narayana Murthy in the recent article in ET implored PM Modi to take up the...
View ArticleClimate Smart Agriculture – Empowering Farmers to take on Global Warming and...
What is the hue and cry about global warming? Global warming and its disastrous effects has been a hot topic of debate for what seems like decades now. Experts concur that while the ripples caused by...
View Article2015: The International Year of Soils
Soil: How does it sustain life? Soil forms the foundation of the ecosystems across the globe. Assuming the role of water filter and a growing medium, soil creates a habitat for billions of organisms...
View ArticleCan a Second Green Revolution turn the fortunes around for India?
‘Climate-smart agriculture’, ‘genetically modified crops’, ‘food security’ and ‘nutritional security’ have become buzzwords thanks to the ever-growing fears about the adverse impacts of climate change....
View ArticleWill the Coffee Board’s New Subsidies and Incentives help brew more Coffee?
India’s coffee production has been stagnant for the past six years. Low productivity, unfavourable weather conditions and loss of crops due to pests are the main causes. Coffee Board of India hopes to...
View ArticleForward Market Commission Tightens Norms for Warehouse Service Providers
Forming new rules Forward Market Commission (FMC), the commodity derivatives market regulator first announced its initiative to introduce uniform criteria for warehouse service providers in August...
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Retail Food Wastage: Concerns and Strategy to curb it
There is analytic suggesting that about 30% of food grown in the world is wasted. That accounts to loss of the same amount of farm inputs and environmental resources like a third of available fresh...
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GMOs: Debate and Mandates
Genetically modified (GM) foods are under a constant storm of a well balanced debate. The supporting crowd enlists all the value benefits and harvest abilities derived from GM technology in foods and...
View ArticleUnion Budget 2016: What is in store for India’s agricultural sector?
The Modi government was always assumed to be pro-corporate and anti-farmer. The last two budgets were indicators of this as significant concessions/incentives were not introduced for rural India and...
View ArticleWhy is the Indian agricultural sector ripe for disruption?
Indian agriculture is in dire straits. There is no doubt about it. The source of livelihood for 50% of the workforce in the nation, agriculture’s contribution to GDP has been declining steadily. This...
View Article5 reasons why agriculture is the next big industry
Agriculture? A growing industry? Wait, what? Yes, this is the general reaction. Agriculture is almost never considered as an industry. IT, energy, and healthcare however regularly make it to the list...
View ArticleKenya sets roadmap to tap India’s growing demand for pulses
It is the mainstay of Kenya’s economy and the largest contributor to the nation’s GDP. Only 8% of the land in Kenya, however, is under agriculture – crop and feed production. The nation is the top...
View ArticleCan we produce enough food to feed 9.7 billion people?
It is an explosion that cannot be contained easily. One that is going to change the world as we know it. We are talking about the population explosion that has quadrupled in the last century. From 1.8...
View ArticleThe pulse of food security and sustainable agriculture
Pulses have long been a part of our diet. History has it that pulses have been cultivated since 7,000-8,000 B.C. The importance of pulses in sustainable agriculture and nutrition has never been...
View ArticleOilseeds production in India gets government backing
The Indian monsoon is expected to be above-average this year. Kharif crops like oilseeds, rice and coarse grains are heavily rain dependent given the poor availability of water in most states. 2015-16...
View ArticleWill commodity futures trading be the future of Indian agriculture?
Farmers and futures trading have rarely been synonymous. Well, at least it used to be that way for maize farmers of Purnia who are no longer averse to futures trading. The maize farmers who count...
View ArticleVolatile food prices could cost India $49 billion in GDP
The estimates are here. No, it does not bring good news. As per a new UN report, India stands to lose $49 billion in GDP if food prices double in the future. Volatile food prices due to rising...
View ArticleIndia’s import of wheat hits 500,000 tonnes as drought impacts domestic...
Drought continues to play havoc with the Indian agriculture sector. 500,000 tonnes of wheat will be imported from Australia and France between July and September after Indian flour mills inked deals,...
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International Year of Pulses: What does 2016 hold for India?
The UNFAO decided to label 2016 as the international year of pulses to spread awareness of the protein power and health benefits, enhance production and trade and lead to smarter uses through the...
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