Food waste index report 2024
The Food Waste Index Report 2024 builds upon its predecessor in three key ways: Firstly, it incorporates vastly expanded data points from around the world, providing a significantly more robust global
The Food Waste Index Report 2024 builds upon its predecessor in three key ways: Firstly, it incorporates vastly expanded data points from around the world, providing a significantly more robust global
AMIT AGNIHOTRI India's food security high on his agenda, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar will press for greater cooperation between Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) to boost the farm sector during a meet in Moscow this week.
Punjab has been unable to make its revenue receipts keep pace with growing revenue expenditure due to its mounting debt burden. As a result, key areas like agriculture and the secondary sector are at standstill leading to a rise in fiscal deficit.
The debates about the Right to Food Bill are essentially about the scope of the PDS and not its form. In the NGO perspective, the PDS should be universal and entitlements should not be less than the monthly current quota of 35 kg per household. The
Plans Afoot To Offer Coupons To Small Farmers For Purchase Of Fertilisers Too
The global food price spikes of 2008 should not have come as a surprise. There were a number of long-term trends that were working towards the surge in food prices, which was fi nally occasioned by some proximate causes. While global prices have eased since then
Suggestions To Set Up Food Tribunals And Offer Direct Cash-Transfer Facility Didn
Determined to maximise kharif production irrespective of the rainfall situation this year the government has asked the states to prepare detailed contingency plans to deal with a drought like situation.
The UPA government took the first crucial step towards implementing right to food as an empowered group of ministers headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee cleared the draft national food security bill. The bill, promising 25 kg of foodgrains per month at Rs 3 per kg to BPL persons, will now go to the Cabinet before it is posted on the food ministry website for public opinion.
The Empowered Group of Ministers that met here on Thursday has advised the Union Food Ministry to get the National Food Security Bill vetted by the Law Ministry before placing it in the Union Cabinet for approval. The proposed Bill envisages provision of 25 kg. of wheat or rice to BPL families at Rs. 3 per kg per month.
AN EMPOWERED group of ministers (EGoM) headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday cleared the draft food security bill, ruled out wheat exports for the present despite overwhelming stocks, approved a decision to increase foodgrain allocation for the above poverty line (APL) consumers of the public distribution system (PDS) and endorsed the ban on pulses export by a year up to March 20