-Business Standard A victim of supply chain disruption is food. Even as the world looks towards India to fill the void created by the Russia-Ukraine war, a drop in paddy acreage is threatening to make the matter worse Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and amid challenges for global food supply, PM Narendra Modi declared that India was capable of "feeding the world". However, instead of feeding the world, the govt soon restricted...
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Lumpy disease: 35,000 cattle killed in 9 States -Shagun
-Down to Earth Multiplication of vectors, stray cattle main reasons behind spread A total of 35,000 cattle have died due to lumpy skin disease in nine Indian States as of August 23, 2022, according to the Union department of Animal Husbandry. Around 900,000 cattle have been infected, as the department tries to contain any further spread of the disease. Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a viral illness, caused by lumpy skin disease virus...
More »How we turned natural floods into monsoon mayhem by squeezing our rivers -Darpan Singh
-IndiaToday.in From Assam to Odisha and in many other States, floods were a natural phenomenon. But we turned them into monsoon mayhem by squeezing our rivers. Here is why we must rethink our response to this annual crisis. Every monsoon, lakhs of people in Indian States such as Bihar, Assam, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal are affected by floods when rivers swell and spread their waters amid pounding rain. Hundreds of men,...
More »A rain dampener for kharif crops this monsoon poses price risks -Dharmakirti Joshi and Adhish Verma
-Livemint.com An uneven distribution of rainfall has left several key rice-producing States parched even as others had to battle excess water The patchy progress of the southwest monsoon this year has cast a long shadow on India’s kharif crop produce, particularly of rice, which is an important constituent of the government’s food distribution programmes. The threat comes right after wheat production in the rabi season took a hit from heatwaves and at...
More »Expand food security coverage to benefit more needy persons, SC tells Centre
-The Hindu Bench asks Centre to re-determine NFSA coverage after considering population increase between 2011-2021 The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to increase coverage under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) so that “more and more needy persons and citizens get the benefit” under the 2013 law which entitles rural and urban poor to receive subsidised food grains under the Targeted Public Distribution System. The coverage under the NFSA is still as...
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