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Weeks after announcing ban, India exported wheat worth USD 473 million in
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 26 (ANI): Weeks after the Central government banned wheat exports to control price rise, the Centre on Wednesday announced that India exported wheat worth USD 177 million in March and USD 473 million in April this year.
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Climate change adds fuel to an imminent wheat crisis in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 11 (ANI): As Pakistan grapples with an acute economic crisis, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has released climate summaries that indicate that climate change in the country is leading to an acute wheat shortage accompanied by food and water scarcity.
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Pak PM Sharif vows to curb flour price even if he has to sell clothes amid
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], May 8 (ANI): As the wheat production is estimated to fall short by almost three million tonnes this year, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that he will reduce the flour price even if he has to sell clothes.
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Pakistan faces severe wheat crisis due to Russia-Ukraine war
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 25 (ANI): The ongoing Russian-Ukraine war has posed a threat to Pakistan as an acute wheat crisis looms over the country. Most of the imports arrive from the Black Sea region, one of the four top wheat production areas.
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Global food commodity prices drop further due to COVID-19: FAO
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Rome [Italy], May 7 (ANI): World food commodity prices declined for the third month in a row during April as the economic and logistical impacts of COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant contractions in demand for many commodities, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United
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This technique may boost wheat production
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec. 7 (ANI): In order to enhance plant growth, a team of researchers has suggested that purified single-walled carbon nanotubes dispersed in water improved the early growth of wheatgrass, but in presence of contaminants, those same nanotubes could do great harm.
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A long-lasting solution to wheat's 'rusty' new problem
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov 17 (ANI): Scientists say they're close to producing super varieties of wheat that will resist a virulent fungus which leaves behind fields of withered black stems.
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