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Potato prices in Bengal drops by 50% on excess production -Shobha Roy

-The Hindu Business Line Potato production in Bengal is estimated to be higher by nearly 16 per cent at 110 lakh tonnes this year, as compared to 95 lakh tonnes in 2020 Potato prices in West Bengal have dropped by nearly 50 per cent in less than two months on the back of excess production in key producing regions including Uttar Pradesh, Bengal and Gujarat. Wholesale price of the tuber (Jyoti variety)...

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Labour pangs

-The Telegraph Trying to make labour force survey results look artificially attractive by the government may only be an attempt at self-deception  The latest Periodic Labour Force Survey data for July 2019 to June 2020 released by the Central government shows a rise in the labour force participation rate and a fall in the unemployment rate even when the Economy registered a sharp deceleration in the rate of growth. This is surprising...

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A cycle of low growth, higher inflation -Anand Srinivasan

-The Hindu Unless policy action ensures higher demand and growth, India will continue on the path of a K-shaped recovery In recent times, right-leaning economists have been arguing that the Government does not need to do anything with the Economy and that it will revive by itself. They call those who disagree with them, doomsday merchants. These economists reason that, like after the Great Depression, the Economy rebounded worldwide, and so will...

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Concerned Citizens Ask FSSAI to Not Make Food Fortification Mandatory, Warn of Health and Economic Impacts

-Newsclick.in Individuals and organisations sent a letter to FSSAI saying that the chemical fortification of food is not a solution as nutrients do not work in isolation but need each other for optimal absorption. The Indian government’s plans to make mandatory the artificial fortification of certain food items has raised concerns as 170 individuals and organisations on Saturday wrote to the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) urging it to...

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‘Drop plans for chemical fortification of foods’

-The Hindu Business Line Scientists, farmer groups urge FSSAI Hyderabad: Several scientists and non-governmental organisations have asked the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to scrap its plans to make synthetic or chemical fortification of foods mandatory. “A major problem with the chemical fortification of foods, said the letter, is that nutrients don’t work in isolation but need each other for optimal absorption,” they said in a letter to the Food...

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