RC recommendation on 27 pesticides
<p>This report is on the review of 66 pesticides under the Chairmanship of Dr. Anupam Varma. The main parameters emphasized by the Committee to review the products were uses approved under the Insecticides
Ministry Of Agriculture
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Food Minister meets Manmohan for review of foodgrains procurement policy
Rangarajan Panel recommendations on decontrol of sugar industry discussed Union Food & Consumer Affairs Minister K.V. Thomas met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday and sought a review of the open-ended foodgrains procurement policy. He also discussed the Rangarajan Panel recommendations on decontrol of sugar industry, the National Food Security Bill, which has been referred to a Parliamentary Standing Committee, and the proposed panel within the Consumer Affairs Department on FDI in multi-brand retail.
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Agri Policy Support Unit launched
Agriculture minister Matia Chowdhury and food minister MA Razzaque are seen at the inaugural ceremony of the Agricultural Policy Support Unit funded by USAID at Sech Bhaban of the Bangladesh Agricultural
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Ficci wants relook at land Bill
New Delhi Industry body Ficci on Friday said the Centre should relook at certain clauses of the proposed Land Acquisition Bill such as role of state governments and the entitlements for the private sector, prior to placing it before the Cabinet. The Group of Ministers on Land Acquisition Bill, headed by agricultural minister Sharad Pawar, had approved the proposed legislation with changes last month. In a letter to Pawar, Ficci president R V Kanoria said state governments should also help in land acquisition for the private sector other than public purpose projects.
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Bill to help govt buy land for PPP projects
New Delhi By defining “public purpose” very broadly in the relevant legislation, the government will ensure private investors in state-controlled infrastructure projects almost always receive its help in mobilising the land required. The land Bill vetted by a group of ministers earlier and set to to taken up by the Union Cabinet after Diwali will contain an exhaustive list of 29 infrastructure areas as involving public purpose. This means that the government can acquire land for public-private partnership (PPP) projects in these areas, provided the projects are majority-owned by the government and two-thirds of the land owners give their consent. Such public-purpose PPP projects are also eligible for some concessions from state governments, which could reduce the cost of acquisition.
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Farmers' body opposes field trials of GM crops
In its interim report, the Supreme Court-appointed Technical Expert Committee has unanimously recommended a 10-year moratorium on field trials of GM food crops Farmer community in Gujarat has raised objection to the union agriculture minister, Sharad Pawar's appeal to the state governments to permit field trials of genetically modified (GM) food crops. Farmer body, Bhartiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) has alleged that Pawar has colluded with the multi-national seed companies to act against the interests of the country's farmers.
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Nod by 80 pc landowners must for private projects
The Group of Ministers (GoM) headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is learnt to have agreed for different criteria of “consent” of landowners for land acquisitions for government, private companies
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Consent of 80% land losers must
Pawar, Jairam agree on remaining details in land Bill, draft to go to Cabinet next month Acquisition of land for private purposes will require the consent of at least 80 per cent of the owners, is the almost-final decision of the group of ministers (GoM) tasked with recommending on this. This will be one of the provisions of the new land Bill. GoM chairman Sharad Pawar and rural development minister Jairam Ramesh met briefly today to finalise key aspects on which some differences had remained. This issue of acquisition for a non-public purpose was one aspect.
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Changes introduced in Land Bill draft
At the instance of Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, changes have been introduced in the proposed draft Land Acquisition Bill. According to the revised draft, the consent of 80 per cent of the landowners has been made obligatory if it procured for private purposes. Earlier, the proposal was to secure the consent of just 67 per cent of the landowners. But, if the land is acquired for a public cause, the no consent was required. Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar disclosed this to reporters after his meeting with Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh over the issue. He said, “A detailed discussion was made in the last GoM. Some of them suggested changes and these were discussed and finalised on Monday.”
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Don’t block GM research, Pawar tells states
Almost three years after a genetically-engineered variety of brinjal (Bt brinjal) was put on indefinite hold — putting a question mark on the fate of genetically-modified crops in India — the government
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Haryana gets India’s biggest dairy plant
The “Taste of India” has widened its frontiers even further. Having revolutionised the milk sector in many parts of the country, the owner of brand Amul, the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF), on Wednesday started operations on the country’s biggest dairy plant in Dharuhera in Haryana. This dairy is expected to cater to the daily needs for milk and milk products of not only Haryana residents but those of Delhi and NCR too which is the world’s second largest urban aggregation by population.