-The Business Standard Millet is not only a rich source of nutrition but also mitigates climate change. It's time it was treated on a par with wheat and Rice Dubbed by the health-savvy as nutri-grains, millet has been the victim of uncalled-for neglect. It has gradually been eased out of farmers' fields as well as from consumers' menu because of ill-advised procurement and pRice support policies. Even those who traditionally consumed millet,...
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Rice and shine -Sandip Das
-The Financial Express With newer varieties and improvement in yield, packaging and marketing, basmati-long hailed as the ‘king of Rice'-is spreading its sweet aroma worldwide WALK INTO any supermarket today and the most eye-catching items will be in the section selling packaged Rice. Rice, that humble, century-old staple of the Indian diet, has emerged from its traditional image-grains in an open gunny bag-to a slick new avatar. Today, Rice, and basmati in...
More »1.65 lakh bogus ration cards to be deactivated -Vishal Kant
-The Hindu New Delhi: The Delhi Government's Food and Civil Supplies Department has decided to deactivate around 1.65 lakh ration cards which have been found to be bogus. Disbursement of ration (subsidised food grains) was stopped to around 1.7 lakh card holders across the city from April this year suspecting that these cards might be bogus. After giving two months time to the card holders to prove their authenticity, the department has...
More »Climate change will make food less nutritious: Study -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Plants make food from carbon dioxide in the air, using energy from sunlight. So, if carbon dioxide levels in the air are going up due to climate change, plants should be making more food, right? Wrong, says a new study published last week in the science journal Nature. According to the study conducted by a team of US, Australian and Japanese scientists, carbon dioxide emissions are...
More »Global food pRices down for second straight month in May, UN agency reports
-The United Nations The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today that global food pRices were down for the second straight month in May and that the outlook for worldwide cereal supply has improved considerably since last month. FAO's Food PRice Index continued its decline from the 10-month high it experienced in March, the agency said in a news release, noting that pRices fell as generally ample supplies weighed on...
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