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>
The Government will introduce in the Lok Sabha on Thursday the National Food Security Bill which seeks to give legal rights to subsidised foodgrains to identified beneficiaries under the public distribution
In the second term of the United Progressive Alliance, the Food Ministry has been totally consumed with the drafting of the Bill which has been routed through the National Advisory Council, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council and the Empowered Group of Ministers on Food.
The landmark Food Security Bill, that gives legal right to cheaper foodgrains to 63.5 per cent of the country's population, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. Considered to be the world's
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Tuesday expressed her “strong opposition” to the draft Food Security Bill, 2011 and urged the Centre to exempt Tamil Nadu from the purview of the Bill. In her letter to
‘Extra expense won’t exceed Rs 100,000 crore, will be spread over 5 years’. Critics have slammed a bloated subsidy that has been proposed for the food security bill, but officials in the government strongly believe that the resultant additional burden will not be above Rs 27,000 crore to meet the commitments under the proposed legislation.
Anand (Gujarat) India continues to be the largest milk producing nation, according to the report of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) for 2010-11. The country’s estimated milk production for the period stood at 121 million tonne (mt), close to 17% of the world’s total produce.
Odisha CM Patnaik wants Centre to bring all poor within the programme’s purview After senior Union Cabinet ministers raised doubts over the National Food Security Bill, it is the turn of state chief ministers
Shimla: Chief Minister PK Dhumal today said Himachal was not opposed to the proposed Right to Food Security Act provided it did not entail any financial liability on the state government, which was often
New Delhi The Centre has released R45,125 crore towards food subsidy until December 15, in line with its budgeted subsidy of R60,572 crore for the current fiscal through March 2012. India’s food subsidy bill rose to R62,929,56 crore in 2010-11 from R58,242.45 crore the year before, food and public distribution minister K V Thomas said in Parliament on Monday, a day after the Cabinet cleared the food security bill that proposes to widen the government's subsidised grain sales to feed the poor
Bhubaneswar: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday reiterated his demand that the Centre should not put any cap on the number of beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act. The Food Bill-2011