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Pulses and the zero hunger challenge -MS Swaminathan

-Financial Chronicle Hunger has three major dimensions. First, is widespread undernutrition or calorie deprivation; second, there is inadequate consumption of pulses and other protein rich foods leading to protein hunger; third, the diet of the underprivileged sections of our society, normally deficient in micronutrients like iron, iodine, zinc, vitamin A and vitamin B12. If we wish to achieve the zero hunger challenge by 2025, we will have to pay concurrent attention...

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Lifting of Iran sanctions boon for basmati -Dilip Kumar Jha

-Business Standard Export to Iran might hit a record high Lifting of global economic sanctions on Iran could, it is hoped in the trade, enable a new record for basmati rice export to that country from here in 2015-16. Iran is also expected to cut import duty on Indian basmati from 40 per cent now to 20 per cent from the new season, starting October. Our basmati export was a record 1.44 million...

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Poor Bear the Brunt of Corruption in India’s Food Distribution System -Neeta Lal

-IPSNews.net NEW DELHI: Chottey Lal, 43, a daily wage labourer at a construction site in NOIDA, a township in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is a beleaguered man. After a gruelling 12-hour daily shift at the dusty location, he and his wife Subha make barely enough to feed a family of seven. Nor is the couple ever able to procure the subsidized rations they are legally entitled to, under a...

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In the Last 5 years, Number of Undernourished Indians Rises -Saumya Tewari

-IndiaSpend.org The Global Hunger Report 2015 by The Food and Agricultural Organisation found that India has the highest number of undernourished people in the world. * India has the highest number of undernourished people in the world at 194.6 million, down 7% over the past two decades, but up 2.6% over the past five years. * China, which had the most undernourished people, 289 million, in 1990, has brought the numbers down 53%...

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India Is Home To Quarter Of The World's Hungry, According To UN Report -Betwa Sharma

-The Huffington Post India is home to a quarter of world’s 794.6 million hungry people, and it has more undernourished people than China, according to the State of Food Insecurity in the World published by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), this week. The report finds that India has 194.6 million undernourished people, down from 210.1 million in 1990-1992, which constitute 15.2 percent of its population in 2014-2016. China has 133.8 million...

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