-The Hindu Further, women need to be included in all facets of livestock development — breeding, veterinary care, extension services, training or access to credit and markets The livestock sector is one of the most rapidly growing components of the rural economy of India, accounting for 5% of national income and 28% of agricultural GDP in 2018-19. In the last six years, the livestock sector grew at 7.9% (at constant PRIces) while...
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Misinformation hallmark of Global Hunger Index, says India after poor rating
-India Today India responded to a low ranking on the Global Hunger Index and said the index suffers from serious methodological issues. Misinformation seems to be the hallmark of the Global Hunger Index, said India, a day after it was ranked 107 on the index, behind neighbours Bangladesh, Pakistan and crisis-hit Sri Lanka. "A consistent effort is yet again visible to taint India's image as a nation that does not fulfill the food...
More »Global Hunger Index attempt to tarnish India’s image: Centre -Jagriti Chandra
-The Hindu Government wrongly claims that one of the indicators is based on an opinion poll The government has yet again rejected the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2022 which ranks India 107 among 121 countries and has called it “an erroneous measure of hunger” and an attempt to “taint” India’s image. It also wrongly claims that the ranks are based on an opinion poll. The Global Hunger Report 2022 found that India’s GHI...
More »More bad news after inflation hits 5-month high: Wheat stocks at 6-yr low, ‘rice output to fall’ -Sayantan Bera
-ThePRInt.in Wheat stocks are half of where they stood in October 2021. Public stocks of rice are nearly double stocking norm, but PRIce outlook depends on actual harvest this season. New Delhi: Despite the unabated rise in food PRIces, which drove retail inflation to a five-month high of 7.41 per cent in September, there is limited legroom for the government to intervene in the market by selling public stocks to cool PRIces. Data...
More »Various estimates point towards one conclusion – the number of poor Indians swelled in 2020
The newly released World Bank report has estimated that the number of extremely poor people globally went up by nearly 71 million in the year 2020 as compared to 2019 — a 11 percent increase. Between 2019 and 2020, the number of poor swelled by around 56 million in India. It means that about 79 percent of the total people globally who slipped into poverty during the first year of...
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