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• Coarse grains production and distribution: Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (2022-2023)

  <p>The Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution in its report titled Coarse grains production and distribution, said Considering the fact that more and more states are opting for millets, with a view to encourage remaining states to opt for nutritious and healthy millets in combination with rice and wheat, the committee suggest the Govt of India to explore the possibility of distributing millets in addition to rice and wheat under TPDS and other welfare schemes.</p>

  • 07/08/2023

  • Lok Sabha Secretariat
  • • Minimum Support Price (MSP)
    • Food Security
    • Food Supply
    • Public Distribution System (PDS)
    • Millets
    • Sorghum
    • Maize
    • India
    • Parliament

• Climate change has likely already affected global food production

  <p>Crop yields are projected to decrease under future climate conditions, and recent research suggests that yields have already been impacted. However, current impacts on a diversity of crops subnationally

  • 31/05/2019

  • PLoS ONE
  • • Climate Change
    • Agriculture
    • Climate Impacts
    • Food Security
    • Rice
    • Wheat
    • Sugarcane
    • Soyabean
    • Sorghum
    • Maize
    • Oil Palm
    • India
    • Asia
    • Haryana
    • Uttar Pradesh
    • Tamil Nadu
    • Kerala
    • Nutrition
    • Iran
    • Philippines
    • Israel
    • Bangladesh
    • Africa

• Drought-tolerant Crops to Contribute to Food Security in Namibia

  Farmers in Namibia now have new crop varieties of cowpea and sorghum that are more tolerant to drought and pests planted this year, thanks to nuclear technology provided with the support of the IAEA and

  • 14/03/2019

  • Big News Network
  • • Agriculture
    • Droughts
    • Food Security
    • Namibia
    • FAO
    • Sorghum
    • Seeds
    • Africa

• Extreme temperatures and crop yields in Karnataka, India

  <p>This paper investigates the impact of exposure to extreme temperature on crop yields of a range of crops cultivated in the State of Karnataka, India.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/ExtremeTemp-crop-yield-Karnataka.pdf"

  • 01/01/2019

  • Review of Agrarian Studies
  • • Climate Change
    • Agriculture
    • Climate Impacts
    • Karnataka
    • Heat Waves
    • Extreme Weather Events
    • Rainfall Pattern
    • Rice
    • Sorghum
    • Millets
    • Legumes

• Ethiopia Releases New, Perennial Sorghum Variety

  Addis Ababa — Ethiopian scientists have developed a new sorghum variety that could lead to multiple yields annually. According to the National Statistics Agency in Ethiopia, the country has almost two

  • 01/08/2018

  • All Africa
  • • Agriculture
    • Agricultural Research
    • Sorghum
    • Ethiopia
    • Africa

• Crop munching pest in Africa raises hunger threat

  A crop munching worm that can fly up to 100 km (60 miles) at night is spreading rapidly across Africa, threatening food production and the livelihoods of millions of farmers already struggling with conflicts

  • 29/01/2018

  • Reuters (Africa)
  • • Agriculture
    • Crop Pests
    • Food Security
    • FAO
    • Maize
    • Rice
    • Sorghum
    • Africa

• Commodities and development report 2017: commodity markets, economic growth and developmen

  Without a renewed commitment to policy change, commodity-dependent developing countries (CDDCs) are by 2030 set to lag behind countries with more diverse economies in their social and economic achievements,

  • 11/12/2017

  • FAO
  • • Food Prices
    • Economic Development
    • GDP
    • Poverty
    • India
    • Global
    • Soyabean
    • Cotton
    • Cocoa
    • Sorghum
    • Rice
    • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

• Global warming could cause yield of sorghum crops to drop ‘substantially’

  Sorghum is the fifth most economically important cereal in the world and is grown in some of the most arid parts of Africa and South Asia, where it is a staple food for half a billion people. The new

  • 16/08/2017

  • Eco Business
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Agriculture
    • Sorghum
    • Global
    • Africa
    • South Asia
    • Food Security

• African Union calls for joint efforts in fight against fall armyworm

  ADDIS ABABA (Xinhua) -- The African Union (AU) has said it is very concerned that the Fall Armyworm is likely to worsen the stress faced by millions of families suffering from food shortages as a result

  • 08/08/2017

  • Coast Week (Kenya)
  • • Agriculture
    • Crop Pests
    • Food Security
    • Droughts
    • Maize
    • Rice
    • Sorghum
    • Africa

• Manipulating plant geometry to improve microclimate, grain yield, and harvest index in grain sorghum

  <p>Cultivar selection, planting geometry, and plant population are the key factors determining grain sorghum yields in water deficit areas. The objective of this study was to investigate whether clump

  • 06/03/2017

  • PLoS ONE
  • • Agriculture
    • Sorghum
    • Irrigation
    • Droughts
    • United States Of America (US)