-The Hindu Business Line Will provide garden kits to every home to grow their own nutritional food Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government has devised an innovative nutritional self-sufficiency garden programme, among other schemes, as part of its long-term goal to achieve food and nutritional security in the State. It is attempting to get every household in the 12,500-odd villages in the State to grow its requirement of nutritional food in its own backyard....

In the absence of income or expenditure-based headcount ratio, the growth in the real wages (i.e., nominal wages adjusted against retail inflation) of the manual workers is considered to be a good proxy to assess the trends in poverty. This is because the manual, unskilled/ semi-skilled labourers exist at the bottom of the pyramid or economic hierarchy, and most of them belong to the social categories Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...

-IndiaToday.in Russia-Ukraine war news updates: The attack on Ukraine has jolted the oil market around the world as well as in India. The dark clouds over edible oil imports in India have come at a time when the retail prices of edible oil are already plateauing. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has jolted the crude oil market around the world and that is poised to raise petrol and diesel prices in India as...

-MoneyControl.com India has suspended futures trading in seven commodities with immediate effect in its latest move to rein in soaring inflation. The Finance Ministry has suspended trading in futures contracts of some agricultural commodities for one year to reign in inflation. Trading in seven commodities - paddy (non-basmati), wheat, chana, mustard seeds and its derivatives, soya bean and its derivatives, crude palm oil and moong - has been suspended with immediate effect, according...

-TheWire.in Several local women farmers recalled their struggle in persuading their family to convert hazardous, chemical-driven conventional farming into environment-friendly organic farming. Dehradun: “When I die I am not going to leave behind gold or currency for my grandchildren. I will leave for them organic seeds that I have saved over the years which they will remember as their grandmother’s legacy. They must know that this biodiversity is the symbol of our...