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. …
The industries spreading pollution and those encroaching on government land will be sternly dealt with and none will be spared in Mohali district. Punjab Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, Consumer Affairs, Information and Technology Adesh Pratap Singh Kairon said here on Monday. Chairing the second meeting of Mohali District …
Subsidy to increase substantially if NAC recommendations are incorporated into the Food Security Bill The total food subsidy bill will balloon to . 1,10,600 crore if entitlements recommended by the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council are incorporated into the Food Security Bill, the Ministry of Food And Public Distribution has …
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday pulled up the Food Ministry and Planning Commission for the lack of urgency in augmenting foodgrain storage capacity despite the government having to face embarrassment over instances of grain lying in the open and rotting. Mukherjee aired his exasperation with the slow pace of augmenting …
Agartala/Aizawl, Dec 16 (IANS): Tripura and Mizoram are facing a food crisis as the Food Corporation of India (FCI) has not supplied the allocated quota of food grain to the two States, officials said today. "In view of the inadequate railway wagons and feeble tracks of NFR (Northeast Frontier Railways), …
DEHRADUN: Following on the media report about the crisis in Food and Civil supply department in Uttarakhand, State Chief Minister Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has convened a meeting with Food and Civil supplies Minister Diwakar Bhatt and its officials on Tuesday. After the meeting, CM instructed to ascertain the authenticity …
The food ministry has cited limited availability of grains for the proposed National Food Security Act and told the National Advisory Council, currently drafting the bill, to provide legal entitlements only to the below poverty line (BPL) persons. As per the NAC recommendation, the BPL families will get 35 kg …
IRKED with the draft report of an expert panel recommending the scaling down of the much-vaunted programe to blend ethanol with petrol, the food ministry has gone formally bawling to the Planning Commission. The ministry has complained that the panel headed by planning commission member Saumitra Chaudhuri has
FOOD minister Sharad Pawar has shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his intervention on the contentious issue of pricing ethanol for the Centre's ambitious 5% blending programme (EBP), even though an expert panel headed by Plan panel member Saumitra Chaudhri recommended capping ethanol supply at around …
National conference of agriculture, animal husbandry and food-civil supplies ministers of 12 states would begin in Jaipur on Tuesday. Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar will inaugurate the conference. Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh would be participating in the conference, which …
Krishnadas Rajagopal The Union Food Ministry today told the Supreme Court that its suggestion on limiting food procurement to available storage facilities, if put to action, would hit the poor farmer and “drastically impact food security of the nation”. In a 19-page affidavit, C Vishwanath, joint secretary in the Ministry, …
NEW DELHI: On the eve of a decision on the draft food security law by the Sonia Gandhi headed National Advisory Council, the government unveiled a blueprint for a complete revamp of the public distribution system, or PDS. State food ministers on Tuesday approved time bound changes in the PDS …
The process of procurement of wheat on support price was over on May 31. Till that date a record purchase of 35 lakh 27 thousand metric tonnes of wheat was done by the government agencies. As desired by the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Minister of State For Food and …
After Manipur, it is now the turn of Arunachal Pradesh to complain about scarcity of food items, with the State Government complaining about irregular Public Distribution System (PDS) in the State. A five-member delegation comprising State Food and Civil Supplies Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Tenga Byalling and Lok Sabha MP …
No one in his wildest imagination would have thought that a state like Madhya Pradesh will become a wheat-surplus state. But, it is now a reality. Due to progressive policies of Madhya Pradesh government led by Chief Minister Mr Shivraj Singh Chouhan, over 40 lakh metric tonnes of wheat is …
Aiming to enhance cooperation in increased agricultural production and exchange of technology, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday left for Moscow on a three-day visit to hold discussions with Chinese, Brazilian and Russian counterparts on a prospective agreement that can also leverage BRIC
