-FAO MDG target to halve proportion of world's hungry still within reach by end of 2015 Rome: About 805 million people in the world, or one in nine, suffer from hunger, according to a new UN report released today. The State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI 2014) confirmed a positive trend which has seen the number of hungry people decline globally by more than 100 million over the last decade and...
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India Looks Forward to Active Participation of FAO to Meet Challenges in Agriculture –Radha Mohan Singh
-Press Information Bureau/ Ministry of Agriculture Union Minister for Agriculture, Shri Radha Mohan Singh had a meeting with DG, FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) here today. Apprising FAO of the significant strides made by India in agriculture and allied sectors during last few years, he said that India has not only achieved self sufficiency in food but also did extremely well in horticulture, dairying, milk production, Fisheries, post harvest management and...
More »Fish production grew 5.9% in 2013-14
-The Hindu Business Line Marine product exports rose to ₹30,213 crore last fiscal The average growth in fish production in the country during 2013-14 stood at 5.9 per cent, mainly due to the 7.3 per cent growth in inland aquaculture and the 3.7 per cent in the marine sector. Total fish production during 2013-14 (provisional) is registered at 9.58 million tonnes, with 6.14 million tonnes coming from the inland sector and 3.44 million...
More »Total livestock population declined by 3.33% over last five years
-The Hindu Business Line The number of animals-in-milk rose to 80.52m, says 19th Livestock Census (2012) There was an overall decline of 3.33 per cent in the total livestock population in the country, according to the 19th Livestock Census (2012), compared to the 2007 census. In 2012, the total livestock population, consisting of buffaloes, sheep, goats, pigs, horses and ponies, mules, donkeys, camels, mithun and yak, stood at 512.05 million in 2012 against...
More »FAO official lauds TN model of managing irrigation tanks -T Ramakrishnan
-The Hindu Chennai: The Tamil Nadu model of providing primacy to the views of farmers in the management of irrigation tanks has been lauded by an official of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), who is heading a team to review tank projects in India. Conventionally, the tank management has been governed by the water engineering-centric approach. But, in Tamil Nadu, "the focus is on farmers, their needs. And, that's the way...
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