-Business Today Food Security and nutrition concerns are putting an ancient, climate-smart grain back on our plates. Farm to fork, there's been a revival of interest in millet. Who would have believed that a rice-obsessed state like Tamil Nadu will so easily embrace another grain - that too, the lowly millet. If you need proof, just zip across to a tiny lane opposite the Adyar bus depot in Chennai. It houses Prems...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 3822
Experts promote 'climate-smart' villages in tribal areas
-PTI PALGHAR: Raising concern over changing climate scenario and lack of technical and financial resources in tribal farming community, researchers have stressed on the need to develop 'climate-smart' villages in tribal areas of Maharashtra's Palghar district. A study conducted recently in the predominantly tribal Jawhar and Mokhada talukas of the district by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), New Delhi, has revealed that there is a need to develop climate smart villages...
More »Protein intake in India dips 10%; oil, fat consumption up -Sushmi Dey
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The average protein intake of a person through normal diet has dipped 6-10% in the past two decades with almost 80% of rural population and 70% of urban people not getting the government-designated 2,400kcal per day worth of nutrition, latest data shows. Comparative estimates drawn by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) reveal that in urban areas the gap in nutrition intake...
More »Food Security Act to Be Adopted by 90% States by June: Paswan
-Outlook Kolkata: The Food Security Act will be adopted by 90 per cent of the states by June this year, Union Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution minister Ram Vilas Paswan informed today. "Currently, some 11 states had adopted the Food Security Act and by June, 90 per cent of the states will adopt it," he said. West Bengal has begun implementing the Act by introducing it in South Dinajpur district and it...
More »Deepening agrarian crisis endangers Food Security
A recent press release from the Ministry of Agriculture shows that the area affected by recent rains and hailstorms is estimated to be 189.81 lakh hectares (on 24 April 2015), which is nearly double the total area affected that was earlier estimated on 16 April 2015. (See the link below). Experts argue that such extreme weather events may severely damage food economy of the nation, apart from breaking the spirit...
More »
