-Women's Feature Service Tribal families in Bankura, West Bengal, living on a stable diet of potato and rice and occasionally some 'daal' (lentils), are now consuming a variety of vegetables, cereals, fruits and animal protein with relish on a daily basis, marking a sea change in the nutrition parametres in one of the most backward districts of India. The credit for this dramatic transformation goes to the dry land sustainable integrated farming...
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Inflation: Three reasons why rising food prices could be here to stay -M Rajshekhar
-The Economic Times None of the standard explanations quite explain the rise in food prices India has seen: pronounced since 2006 and alarming after 2010. Drought and poor rains? The country has seen good aggregate rainfall in most of those years. Spike in global prices? Those were high in 2007-08, not now. Fragmented value chains that allow middlemen to grab large margins? The value chain has always been fragmented. Growth has slowed...
More »Potato pain: Government forms study panel, to keep buffer stock
-The Times of India BHUBANESWAR: Even as Odisha continued to feel the potato heat because of the West Bengal government's undeclared restrictions on inter-state transportation of the tuber, the state government on Wednesday formed a taskforce to chalk out a long-term strategy to deal with the issue. The panel, headed by agriculture secretary, will submit an action plan focussing on production, preservation and distribution of potato within a month, food supplies and...
More »Ram Vilas Paswan, the minister in charge of food and public distribution talks with Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-The Business Standard Interview with Union minister in charge of food and public distribution Ever since the new government took office in May, food prices and related issues have been one of the most discussed subjects. Ram Vilas Paswan, the minister in charge of food and public distribution, says hoarders are to blame. And, speaks of the various other priorities under his charge. Edited exceprts of a talk with Sanjeeb Mukherjee: * The...
More »The fast food bomb -Vandana Prasad
-The Hindu Obesity among children due to rampant consumption of junk food has reached epidemic proportions. With India already in the grip of this dangerous global trend, the government needs to remove its blinkers on the processed food industry One of the first declarations of the newly elected government in June was a proposal to ban unhealthy or junk food (defined as food high on fat, sugar and salt) in school...
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