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>
P M Raghunandan, Bangalore, Apr 14, DHNS: Rise in prices of essential commodities may have scourged the middle class most, but they are not ready to consume the PDS (public distribution system) rice (also called ration akki) available at lesser price despite it being good quality.
BHUBANESWAR: Food security in Orissa continues to be a cause for concern despite the much vaunted Rs 2-a-kg-rice scheme of the State Government. The reason is allotment of 25 kg against the stipulated 35 kg a month.
As govt tries to work out a pragmatic balance between economic imperatives and political compulsions of enacting a national food security legislation, RAVISH TIWARI takes stock of its problems THE IDEA
CLOSE on the heels of the spurious drugs scam expose, doubts are being raised if fake food products distribution network is in operation as a fourmonth-old baby collapsed a few minutes after she was fed with Lactogen No 1, a baby food supplement, that was later found to be contaminated and infested with worms, in Vyasarpadi.
Flaws In The PDS
In a bid to push the National Food Security Act, the government on Thursday started a process to bring the states on board over the issue of identification of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families.
States To Monitor Trade Margins On Retail, Wholesale Prices A
FOOD Corporation of India (FCI) has
April 6: Controlling food inflation, reforming the
OK With FSA Grain Outlay At 35kg New Delhi: With a ministerial panel asking Planning Commission to finalize the number of BPL families in the country who would be eligible for subsidized rations under the Food Security Act, the Plan panel is likely to settle for the figures put forward by the Tendulkar committee