Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Minister for Revenue and Rehabilitation Raman Bhalla has said due to drought in 2009 more than 50 per cent loss was suffered to kharif crops in 18 districts, including Kathua and Samba. Replying to a question by Subash Chander Gupta in the Legislative Council today, the Minister said the relief …
New Delhi: Though finance minister Pranab Mukherjee blamed poor delivery as a key factor for the rise in food prices, the Union Budget has actually slashed funds allocated to strengthening the public distribution system after last year
Acting tough on 283 sugar mills and 22 groups of sugar mills, which did not sell their prescribed quota of sugar in the market during the month of December, the government has converted a total of 3.6 lakh tonnes of sugar from these mills into levy quota that it will …
Facing flak from the Congress for his failure to control prices of essential commodities, Consumer Affairs Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday came under fresh pressure from the ruling party, which demanded that ban on futures trading in wheat be restored. The ban on wheat futures, imposed in early 2007, had …
BHUBANESWAR: Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution Sharad Pawar today advised the State Government to take steps to stop production of parboiled rice from next year as it is not beneficial to Orissa. Addressing the State convention of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) here, Pawar said that he had discussed …
