Africa agriculture trade monitor 2023
The 2023 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor, a flagship publication of AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute, provides an overview of trade in agriculture in Africa, including
Cotton
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Pest management for Bt cotton: Need for conservation biological control
Cotton hybrids expressing various endotoxins of B. thruringiensis, per se fitting into genetic or host-plant resistance and biological tools of integrated pest management (IPM) have given a new dimension and impetus to the IPM philosophy that aims to reduce the massive reliance on insecticides for pest management on the conventional or non-Bt cotton.
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Liberal import of rice, wheat not to hit farmers' earnings
Rituparna Bhuyan & Ajay Modi / New Delhi August 2, 2008, 0:42 IST Prices of key farm produce like wheat and rice in India are way below international prices, which means rural households will not be robbed of their income if liberal imports of these commodities are allowed. Data collected by Business Standard show that rice prices in India are less than half of global prices, whereas wheat sells at two-thirds of global prices. While soya oil prices are the same in the two markets, cotton prices are slightly higher in India. These commodities can be exported free of duty to India.
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Framing farmers: the case of GM crops and transnational activist networks in India
This paper analyzes a period of contention about Genetically Modified (GM) crops, specifically BT cotton, in India over the last six years. In this paper aim to further understanding of the role of transnational activist networks (TANs) in helping to construct new forms of interest representation in the developing world.
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Cotton-wheat production system in South Asia: a success story
Cotton-wheat is a long established crop production system of north-western plains of India and Pakistan, and it occupies an important place in the agricultural economy of both these countries. While cotton is a cash crop, wheat provides the necessary food security. Accordingly, this crop rotation has brought rich dividends to the farmers.
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UK water footprint: the impact of the UK's food and fibre consumption on global water resources
This report highlights the impact of the UK's consumption patterns on water resources across the world. WWF has used state-of-the-art analysis to estimate the UK's total national water footprint. This report presents both the results of this analysis and several case studies that illustrate the impacts of the UK's water footprint in the countries where the food and cotton are grown.
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Alarming drop in Indus River system water level
The water inflow in the Indus River system has dropped to an alarming level of 281,000 cusecs per day from 500,000 recorded last week, and Indus River System Authority (IRSA) has asked the provinces to submit revised water requisitions by Wednesday, sources said on Monday. The authority would start providing water to Punjab and Sindh according to the new water plan from August 1.
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Sparse rains spoil cotton prospect in central India
Chandan Kishore Kant / Mumbai July 22, 2008, 0:28 IST Gujarat, Maharashtra and MP contributed over 60 per cent of the total output in 2007-08. Poor rains are playing havoc with cotton production in central India
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Editorial: Dealing with GM foods
More often than not, discussions about India's policy on genetically modified (GM) crops result in the point being made about how slow the entire process of clearances by the Genetic Engineering Approvals Committee (GEAC) is. One of the reasons for this is that the GEAC does not give credit to tests conducted overseas and insists they be carried out all over again; the alternative approach would be to say that if certain tests have already been conducted in similar agro-climatic zones overseas, the GEAC should assume the same results will obtain in India as well.
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Vidarbha forum writes to PM on farm crisis
Arunkumar Bhatt MUMBAI: With the first and second sowing of cotton failing in the five districts of Vidarbha, the agrarian crisis in the region has further deepened, making Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti demand in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, free distribution of coarse grains seeds such as bajra and jowar and assistance of Rs. 2000 an acre to save the debt-hit three million farmers. As the rain plays truant, five districts in the region have not received even one hour of continuous rain, leading to dry conditions.
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Cotton import duty goes
Incentives on export of basic raw material withdrawn NEW DELHI: Yielding to the textile industry's demand as also to rein in inflation, the Central Government has scrapped the customs duty on imports of raw cotton and withdrew incentives on export of the basic raw material with effect from July 8 to boost its domestic availability.