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>
Food Supply
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Atal yojana to gift Kumaon own seed development corporation
If everything goes as per plan regarding distribution of cheaper rations under the Atal Khadyann Yojana, Kumaon will soon have a separate Seed Development Corporation on the pattern of the Terai Seed Development Corporation, which is earning `six crore per annum by selling seed to other States. Speaking to The Pioneer, a Secretary said the people currently engage in farming for their own consum
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Getting Food Security Right
The Act on food security must mandate technology-based intervention and well-defined monitoring. The first issue in food security is India
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No Rs. 2-a-kg rice for affluent APL
The Naveen Patnaik Government has made a major course correction in its populist scheme. The rice Rs.
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Of margins and the marginalised
The countrywide share of corporate retail in food distribution tripled in the past four years when retail food prices showed the greatest increase. THE dramatic increase in food inflation over the past two years has been associated with several surprises. One major surprise has been how the top economic policymakers in the country have responded to it.
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Pranab raps ministry over grain storage
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday pulled up the Food Ministry and Planning Commission for the lack of urgency in augmenting foodgrain storage capacity despite the government having to face embarrassment over instances of grain lying in the open and rotting. Mukherjee aired his exasperation with the slow pace of augmenting storage capacity during the meeting of the EGoM on food securit
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NGO unearths wheat scam in Meghalaya
SHILLONG, Feb 9
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CAG finds flaw in PDS beneficiary list
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has found that the Food and Civil Supplies Department of the State neither conducted any survey for identification of beneficiaries nor followed the survey conducted by the Panchayat and Rural Development Department in 1998-99, to select the beneficiaries of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) for the Public Distribution System (PDS). The status as of
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Ministry gears up for food bill
Even though the UPA-II government still grappling over the proposed National Food Security bill, the food minister KV Thomas has already started to worked out modalities for augmenting procurement and storage capacities of Food Corporation of India (FCI)
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Nitish moots direct cash subsidies for poor to plug leakages in PDS
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar seems to have put his weight behind the idea of direct cash transfers for social sector programmes of the government, including for the proposed food security Bill, as well as rejecting the National Advisory Council (NAC) proposal for universalisation of the Public Distribution System (PDS).
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Implement amendments of Swaminathan report: Lakhowal
Punjab Mandi Board chairman Ajmer Singh Lakhowal has said if the Central Government failed to implement the recommendations made in the MS Swaminathan Committee Report, farmers would stage a protest demonstration in New Delhi on March 9. Lakhowal made this announcement during an interaction with farmers at the Dukhnivaran Sahib gurdwara, here on Saturday.