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>
While Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee signalled government intention to come out with a national food security Bill soon during his Budget speech, the action plan that has been worked out suggests that the legislation will not make it to Parliament for at least another year.
In a departure from traditional policy, the EU has approved German chemical company BASF
The Centre has decided to ask the states to set up a Food Security Fund from which they will have to mandatorily pay eligible below-poverty-line (BPL) families an allowance were they not to get their quota of food grains as specified in the Food Security Act.
Rahi Gaikwad MUMBAI: Hundreds of people across the city gathered on Sunday to air their grievances over the persistent shortage of food grain and its dismal quality at a number of fair price shops (FPS).
Seema Sindhu / New Delhi March 12, 2010, 1:13 IST To ensure quality food and safety standards in the food sector besides introducing a better surveillance mechanism, the government plans to tie up with agricultural universities, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and other institutions that have food-testing laboratories.
The Department of Food and Civil Supplies has released food grains to various categories of ration card holders for the month of March 2010.
Implementation of State scheme to provide rice at Rs. 2 a kg THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Running the public distribution system being a collective responsibility of the Central and State governments, the State's decision to provide rice at Rs.2 a kg for 35 lakh families will be jointly implemented, Food and Civil Supplies Minister C. Divakaran has said.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala government has appealed to the Centre to relax the norms for inclusion of paddy lands in the Central food security scheme so that the Kuttanad region and the kole lands in Thrissur district could be brought under its ambit, Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Rathnakaran told the Assembly on Monday.
By 2025, 60 per cent aquifers would be in critical state, says World Bank report Two days after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured the Parliament of
Despite being a major food producer India is lagging far behind in food processing with a global share of just 1.3 per cent, according to JP Maurya, industrial adviser to the union ministry of food processing.