-The Financial Express The urgent need to end world hunger appears to have promoted superfood crops at the expense of nutritional diversity Finally, we know why India is facing a spurt in diet-linked lifestyle disorders while it continues to struggle to feed the hungry. The paradox is seen in several developing economies, the answer is easily hazarded but now, for the first time, a formal study by the International Centre for Tropical...

-PTI NEW DELHI: Most farmers in India are aware of MGNREGA scheme but not about the minimum support price (MSP) for crops fixed by the Centre to avoid distress sale, according to a study by research body CSDS. Also, 76 per cent of farmers surveyed prefer to do some other work rather than farming, while 60 per cent of them want their children to migrate to cities, the Centre for the Study...

-The Business Standard To get priority under CSR, new policy envisages major role for private sector The government has decided to accord agro forestry equal status with agriculture by setting up a national-level board to promote national agro forestry policy. Besides agro forestry is proposed to be treated as priority area under Corporate Social Responsibility programmes (CSR) and thus the policy envisages a major role for the private sector. To this effect a...

-Live Mint About 30% of 5,350 farmer households surveyed said they would vote for the BJP New Delhi: A third of farming households, a key electoral constituency, are likely to vote for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the upcoming general election, says a survey conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) for Bharat Krishak Samaj, a farmers' association. About 30% of 5,350 farmer households surveyed across 18...

-Live Mint Move comes in response to direction from Court asking government to create an environment regulator New Delhi: The environment ministry has recommended the creation of an independent regulator that will evaluate projects seeking environment clearances. The approval itself will be granted by the ministry. The ministry's move comes in response to a direction from the Supreme Court on 6 January asking the government to create an environment regulator at the national...