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>
Even as the Agriculture Ministry is working round the clock to bring on table the Food Security Act to fulfil the Congress-led UPA government
THE government will take a call on the new rice export policy only after September when the new season begins and the stock position is known. The food and commerce ministries are also in favour of the move as the impact of monsoon on the rice crop will be known by then. The new policy proposes around 2 million tonnes of rice for export.
Terms to be spelt out soon but flour mills see little scope.
BPL Categorisation Could Be First Step To Food Safety Law, Bring In New Beneficiaries Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: The debate on UPA
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A food security law, to clearly define above-poverty and below-poverty line categories, will be formulated within 100 days, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Food and Public Distribution K.V. Thomas has said.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There will be changes in the guidelines for BPL families once the Food Security Act comes into force, Union Minister of State for Agriculture, Food and Civil Supplies K V Thomas has said.
KOCHI: Union Minister K V Thomas said on Thursday that he had sought travel concessions in Railways for writers who were financially weak. He was inaugurating the royalty distribution function organised as part of the Cooperative Library Congress by handing over the documents to M Leelavathi in Kochi. The Minister said that the Centre had decided to legalise the Food Safety Project.
Health Dept Gets Spl Refrigerators To Store Samples Rumu Banerjee | TNN
Ravish Tiwari As the Centre prepares to enact the National Food Security Act (NFSA) to implement its promise of 25 kg of rice/wheat at Rs 3 per kg for the below poverty line (BPL) families, it will have to first grapple with the anomalies in the existing public distribution system.
MUKESH RANJAN June 10: Expressing skepticism over the proposed Food Security Act, the Planning Commission on Wednesday said that the implementation of the new law would not be a cakewalk like the much-hyped NREGA. It said that fixing responsibility in case of failure in implementing the law would be an area of concern.