Food waste index report 2024
<p>The world wasted an estimated 19 per cent of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to this new report by the UNEP.</p>
<p>The world wasted an estimated 19 per cent of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to this new report by the UNEP.</p>
New Delhi The government seems to be finally working out the modalities of the proposed National Food Security Bill after examining the views of National Advisory Council (NAC) and the committee headed by C Rangarajan, the chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council. Food and civil supplies minister KV Thomas on Wednesday met NAC chairperson Sonia Gandhi for giving the final touc
<p> CHENNAI: The scheme of free distribution of 20 kg rice to beneficiaries under the public distribution system (PDS) will come into force on June 1. At present, rice is given at Re. 1 a kg to those who are entitled to receive the commodity.</p>
The country is about to witness dramatic changes in food norms, impacting the industry significantly, if initiatives being taken by the Food Safety & Standards Authority (FSSAI) are a yardstick. Formulation of food recall procedures in case of unsafe or hazardous products , mandatory compliance with GAP (good agricultural practices) for big retailers, labelling changes for packaged food items,
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New Delhi The food ministry has opposed the proposal of the Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices (CACP) to hike the support price of paddy by R160 per quintal to R1,160 per quintal for 2011-12 crop year. Paddy minimum support price (common grade) was at R1,000 per quintal last year.
WHEN UNION Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar announced a bumper harvest last month, “the highest since 1947”, commodities markets perked up, sniffing food export opportunities. With a record 236 million
Delhi Health Minister A. K. Walia has said that the State Government would be enforcing the new Food Safety and Standard Act-2006 within the next three months, thereby ensuring heavy fine and punishment of up to life imprisonment for adulteration.
The Delhi government is all set to introduce the Food Safety and Standard Act-2006 in the coming months.
In a crackdown on food adulteration, the Delhi government on Wednesday said that a new law with stringent provisions, including life term, would come in force in three months
Massive grain procurement to meet the requirements under the proposed national food security law could drive out the private sector and have larger implications on the state of the domestic procurement market, a study on food and nutritional security has warned. Apart from impacting exports and cereal price in the open market, rising public procurement will only make it costly to buy, store, tran