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 Empowered Group of Ministers that met here on Thursday has advised the Union Food Ministry to get the National Food Security Bill vetted by the Law Ministry before placing it in the Union Cabinet for approval. The proposed Bill envisages provision of 25 kg. of wheat or rice to …
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. By the time the Bill …
A team from the Union Ministry of Food and Civil Supplies has taken samples of PAU-201 variety of paddy from different places in Patiala. The team led by a senior official of the Union Ministry of Food and Civil Supplies, Dr Mohinder Singh, will test the samples of the PAU-201 …
BHOPAL: A Day after Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar indicated that there was little likelihood of prices coming down, the Madhya Pradesh government on Thursday announced that it would sell cheap foodgrain in urban areas. Elections to municipal corporations and other urban bodies are due and the notification will be announced …
Amidst confusion over fate of PAU-201 rice variety in the state markets, the Punjab Food and Civil Supplies Department has lodged its protest with the Union Agriculture Ministry over the way the ministry
Madhya Pradesh government has announced to register the name of farmers before purchasing of food grain on support price from next year, official sources said. The decision was taken at a meeting of an advisory committee meeting in the presence of Minister of State for Food and Civil Supplies Parash …
An expert group of the Rural Development Ministry on the methodology for conducting the BPL census for the 11th Five Year Plan has suggested to the Orissa government that the actual level of BPL population in the state should be revised upwards to 84.47 per cent from the present level …
BHUBANESWAR: Minister of State for Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Sharada Nayak today said that the Government was in the process of formulating a new procurement policy for the coming kharif crops. The new procurement policy will adopt best practices adopted by other states to ensure that farmers get the …
The Roman Catholic church has agreed to extend its help to the state which is struggling to ensure proper distribution of foodgrain to the poor and the needy in the wake of acute drought conditions in most parts of Jharkhand. T.P. Sinha, the adviser to Governor K. Sankaranarayanan, made a …
THE NCP-manned food ministry is yet to work out the increase in demand for foodgrain in the public distribution system (PDS) on account of drought and deficient rainfall. Last week, officials of the food ministry made a presentation before the estimates committee of Parliament, giving details about the foodgrain situation …
The ambitious Food Security Bill may look at being more inclusive------------- Every Morsel Counts The alternative version Jean Dreze, Economist 1. Food security guarantee will have to come from the Centre 2. Does not want to freeze number of BPL families at any inflexible level 3. Wants clear criteria to …
The fertiliser ministry may come up with guidelines for the new subsidy policy in the next two months, whereby the dole out amount is likely to be fixed by the government in advance, throwing fertiliser prices open to change in sync with market realities.
No swine flu (H1N1 influenza) case has been reported from any part of Assam till date, asserted Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in the Assam Assembly today. Replying to Zero Hour questions by Dr Kamala Kalita (AGP) and Mohibul Haque (Ind), the Minister said that the Government has taken all …
MUMBAI: Impressed by the success of the pilot project launched at the tribal Surgana village, Nashik district in June 2007, the Centre is now considering the extension of the home delivery system of foodgrains under the public distribution scheme (PDS) throughout the country in a phased manner. Food and civil …
Minister of State for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Paras Jain held formal talks with senior departmental officers here today about various ongoing schemes. Jain instructed the officers to ensure easy supply of subsidised food grains to the BPL cardholders. Efforts should also be undertaken to make the public …
Asks FCI to speed up movement of stocks The Punjab Food and Supplies Department has requested the Centre to allow border trade of wheat to Pakistan and Afghanistan through the Wagah land route to clear the huge wheat stocks lying in the state. The state has also claimed that slow …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that red wheat would not be distributed through fair price shops from next month. Instead, good quality wheat procured on support price would be distributed under Mukhya Mantri Annapurna Yojana. The Chief Minister reviewed the implementation of Mukhya Mantri Annapurna Yojana here at …
