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Wheat farmers have a new weapon against a pest that costs them $350 million a year; researchers are using straw bales to move tiny parasitoids into fields and fight the wheat stem sawflyA new frontier in pest management is underway as researchers test a groundbreaking method to tackle the wheat stem sawfly issue. Utilizing ...- These mid-cap stocks with ‘Strong Buy’ & ‘Buy’ recos can rally over 25%, according to analystsIn the equity market, it is generally good to keep one eye on risk management. But there are times when it becomes a must-do. We are curren...
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- In the 1500s, European settlers brought pigs to North America as travelling food; more than 6 million feral swine now occupy at least 35 statesEuropean pigs introduced centuries ago became invasive feral swine across North America. These adaptable animals now inhabit diverse enviro...
- Decades of farm gains, inventories strengthen food system against 'super' El NinoNear-record food inventories, improved farming technology and stronger exporters such as Brazil and Russia are expected to cushion the glob...
- Rainfall deficit comes down to 12% as July witnesses above-normal rainfall: GovtThe rainfall deficit has reduced to twelve percent with above-normal monsoon activity in early July. An El Nino year may not necessarily re...
- Indian farmers being extra cautious with their wheat crops after last year's lessonsSeveral parts of India are witnessing unusually warm weather for this time of the year, including in the biggest wheat-growing areas. The p...
- Rice faces squeeze on higher fertilizer costs and booming demandMuch is riding on the rice crop in India, which ships about 40% of the world’s exports of the staple. “Global supply is at risk, but for no...
- After pandemic, war in Ukraine new threat to food securityWhile there have not yet been global disruptions to wheat supplies, prices have surged 55% since a week before the invasion. Russia and Ukr...
- India set for record wheat output: Expert“Production of the food grain is likely to touch 115 million tonnes compared with 107 million tonnes in the previous year, looking at the c...
- Rabi crops to gain as cold wave slated to continue for two daysWheat planting fell by 4.02% to 298.67 lakh hectare, as on January 19. As on date, yellow rust has not been reported across the wheat sown ...
- Rain to hit North India soon, to help wheat, mustard cropsThe continued dry weather conditions and maximum temperatures being above normal over parts of north-west and central India were a concern ...
- Wheat productions drop by 4-5% due to untimely rainsWheat production in India, the world’s second-largest producer, is expected to fall 4-5% short of the earlier estimate of 95.76 million ton...
- Wheat output to fall 4-5 per cent short of estimate due to rains: Radha Mohan SinghThis estimate is based on initial reports, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Tuesday while addressing a conference on kharif crops.
- Vegetable prices likely to climb 20-25%: AssochamAccording to the joint study by Assocham-Skymet Weather, at least 25-30 per cent of ready-to-harvest crop has been damaged, impacting wheat...
- Recent dip in temperature and unseasonal rains leave standing crops vulnerable“If farmers don’t go for quick drainage of water from their farms it can lead to drying of crops and reduce production drastically,” said a...
- China's grain output rises for 10th consecutive yearChina's grain production has risen for the tenth consecutive year, with output soaring 2.1 per cent year-on-year to hit 601.94 million tonn...
- 'Globalisation & climate change affecting food security'In addition, enough food to feed many millions of people is wasted in developed and some developing countries.
- A ban on the use of crops with transgenic traits is unscientific and India needs new technologies to raise farm yieldsBoth yield-enhancement and yield-stabilisation are critical for feeding a global population of over seven billion, and still increasing.
- Pests, low mercury, dry soil in South may affect rabi cropDry soils in the South, pest attacks and higher temperatures in the North may affect output of rabi crops such as mustard, sorghum, wheat, ...
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