-Business Standard The current growth in the Indian cultivator's real or inflation-adjusted income, at about 3.5 per cent, is barely a third of the growth rate required to achieve this Goal Earlier this month, the Central government said in a reply in Parliament that it has taken several measures to double farmers’ income by 2022 and that the progress made so far indicates that it is ‘on the right track’. However, a closer...
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The food vaccine as right, more so for TB patients -KR Antony
-The Hindu Without addressing undernutrition, the Goals of reducing the incidence of TB, and mortality, in India, cannot be reached In the past, there was a belief that every ill had a pill and the pill killed the germs that made you ill. That germ could be a bacteria, virus or a parasite. Factors such as genetic and metabolic causes, hormonal imbalance and altered neuro-chemical transmitters causing illnesses were less known then....
More »Livestock Sector in India Has Shown Remarkable Resilience, Expert Says -Rosamma Thomas
-Newsclick.in India produces 22% of the world’s total milk production; India is also the largest sheep and Goat meat exporter. It is among the largest exporters of bovine meat too. There must be something that livestock producers in India have got right, argues Dr Kohler-Rollefson. On April 11, 2022, researcher Dr Ilse Kohler Rollefson, who has long worked among the camel herders of Rajasthan, delivered the keynote address at the National Livestock...
More »Fund green India -Tanvee Kanaujia and Jyotsana Singh
-The Telegraph India’s decarbonization targets as laid out at COP26 may require enhanced funding The Union finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, made energy transition and climate action focal points in this year’s budget. The ministry of environment, forest and climate change secured an allocation of Rs 3,030 crore. Yet, the question as to whether the financing would be adequate to ensure a timely transition to a sustainable environment stands. At COP26 held in Glasgow,...
More »Is the govt. doing enough for the Jan Aushadhi scheme?
On Janaushadhi Diwas this year (i.e., March 7th, 2022), Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi stated that the poor and the middle-class benefited from the 'Jan Aushadhi Kendras' that were set up to provide generic drugs at affordable prices. He said that the poor and the middle class saved around Rs.13,000 crore through these stores during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the wake of COVID 19 crisis, the 'Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India'...
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