-ThePrint.in There is no guarantee of a college seat or a job. And so village after village, Haryana is watching its young men leave–and the rise of an industry of touts, agents, helpers and hustlers. Jind/Kurukshetra: There’s a giant US-style open, neon-green, modular kitchen in the Sharmas’ two-floor home in Haryana’s Dhatrath village. It has a parking garage and a 50-inch TV playing Instagram reels of American life all day. From the...
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In 2023, global spotlight on millets, traditional to many Indian diets -Nushaiba Iqbal
-IndiaSpend.com Bajra, jowar and ragi – millets usually consumed in India – have almost four times the iron contained in brown rice, and THRee times the folic acid per serving. The year 2023 was declared as the International Year of Millets by the United Nations General Assembly. #IYOM2023, as the Food and Agriculture Organization calls it, will be an opportunity to raise awareness about the nutritional benefits of millets and its suitability...
More »India's farm sector performance has improved over the years, shows latest FAO report
The World Food and Agriculture – Statistical Yearbook 2022, released in December 2022, provides its readers a plethora of useful statistics and data across the countries pertaining to agriculture and food security. The yearbook by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) primarily covers four themes -- Economic Dimensions of Agriculture; Production, Trade and Prices of Commodities; Food Security and Nutrition; and Sustainability and Environmental Aspects of Agriculture. While going THRough the report,...
More »The Public Distribution System is more than free grains -Dipa Sinha
-Moneycontrol.com The free and subsidised grains are an implicit income transfer to people and ensure basic protection from starvation The distribution of free grains THRough the Public Distribution System (PDS) under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) has been one of the main relief measures undertaken by the Indian government in response to the economic distress brought about by the Covid pandemic. From April 2020 until the end of 2022,...
More »The importance of affordable healthcare for all and other key lessons from the pandemic -Chapal Mehra & Lancelot Pinto
-Scroll.in It is important to learn from the Covid-19 crisis and transform policies and systems. Or we are destined to repeat our mistakes? Humans tend to limit memories of horrors faced in the past as a coping mechanism. In our hurry to return to normalcy, as the world and India learns to live with Covid-19, we should not forget the lessons this crisis taught us. The most important of these is the...
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