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
The government's coal policy should not provide for coal export and open-mining method, experts and environmentalists said yesterday. The policy should be drawn up in consultation with experts and others concerned, they added. The suggestions came at a press conference on an 'environment-friendly, pro-people' coal policy at the Jatiya Press Club in the city.
New Delhi: The country received 45% less than normal rain in June, a development that can hinder the prospect of economic recovery and dent the UPA
The National Food Security Act, a high point of the Budget due to be presented by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, is giving the government plenty to chew on. The crux of the debate is whether government can bite the bullet and deroster APL (above poverty line) beneficiaries to re-target food subsidies.
Even as the Agriculture Ministry is working round the clock to bring on table the Food Security Act to fulfil the Congress-led UPA government
THE government will take a call on the new rice export policy only after September when the new season begins and the stock position is known. The food and commerce ministries are also in favour of the move as the impact of monsoon on the rice crop will be known by then. The new policy proposes around 2 million tonnes of rice for export.
THE COUNTRY NEEDS A DEDICATED & COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL PROGRAMME TO
The government has began an agriculture rehabilitation programme for more than four lakh small, poor and marginal farmers at a cost of nearly Taka 32 crore with the aim of getting over the losses caused by the devastating cyclone Aila last month.
Speakers at a workshop yesterday underscored the need for ecological sanitation to ensure healthcare of people and save environment. They also suggested for using Ecosan toilet saying that this new toilet will not only protect public health but also produce organic fertiliser.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A food security law, to clearly define above-poverty and below-poverty line categories, will be formulated within 100 days, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Food and Public Distribution K.V. Thomas has said.
BHUBANESWAR: Exploitation of groundwater has been a raging issue in Orissa lately though the State utilises barely about 14 per cent. Now does it augur well for its resources and future generation or is it too little given the requirements of a largely agrarian economy?