-TheLogicalIndian.com In a bid to save the nearly-extinct indigenous rice variety, Mahan Chandra Borah started a unique library. This library is unique because it has collection of heirloom rice landraces(local) of the Assam. “Annapurna rice Seed Library” seeks to store and promote the cultivation of these rice seeds. rice is grown in abundance in North Eastern part of our country. Assam is home to many different varieties of rice.There are four types...
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Agricultural sector growth slows down to 3%, show new estimates
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has recently made an upward revision to the growth to be experienced by the agrarian economy in the present crop year (viz. from July, 2017 to June, 2018). The growth in real Gross Value Added (GVA) by the agrarian sector as a whole is expected to be 3.0 percent in 2017-18 as per the second advance estimates of national income for 2017-18, which was released...
More »Dr. Hameed Nuru, World Food Programme Country Director, interviewed by Soma Basu (The Hindu)
-The Hindu Malnutrition is a complex problem and results from not getting enough food to not getting the right kind of food, says the United Nations WFP (India) Country Director Even with the world's largest subsidised food distribution systems serving 65 million poor families across the country, India continues to be home to a quarter of all malnourished people worldwide. In view of the incredible challenge of improving nutrition for all people...
More »After Universalising PoS and Iris Readers for PDS, AAP Govt Approves Doorstep Delivery of Rations -Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar
-TheWire.in Food rights group says this is just a changing of goalposts, questions why rules have not been formulated and state food commission not constituted despite court nudge. New Delhi: Though in order to overcome the problem of exclusions faced due to Aadhaar-linked Point of Sales (PoS) machines installed at ration shops, the Delhi cabinet today approved the scheme for doorstep delivery of rations under the Public Distribution System, food rights activists...
More »Malli's tragedy: On death, loss and failed govt schemes in Kerala's only tribal block -Shaju Philip
-The Indian Express With a string of malnutrition deaths and now a case of lynching, Attappadi has for long lived in Kerala’s shadows. Shaju Philip on why, despite government schemes and projects, little has changed in the state’s only tribal block. C Valli slumps onto the floor of her unplastered house at Pazhayoor colony in Attappadi’s Chindakki village, clutching a plastic bag half filled with rice. “There’s not a grain at home....
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