Burdwan, April 25: The cash-strapped government has been spending almost Rs 1 crore annually on a state-owned Dairy in Burdwan lying defunct for the past four years. The 62 employees at Burdwan Dugdhagar have been drawing their salaries with virtually no work though the Trinamul government is working on a plan to hand over the unit to another state-owned milk producing unit. An official said the Burdwan Dairy produced 20,000 litres of...

The economic crisis, the ecological crisis and the food crisis are a reflection of an outmoded and fossilised economic paradigm. It is a paradigm that grew out of mobilising resources for the war by creating the category of “growth”. It is rooted in the age of oil and fossil fuels. It is fossilised because it is obsolete, a product of the age of fossil fuels. If we have to address...

-The Economic Times The ambitious Rs 2,242-crore National Dairy Plan phase-one (NDP-I) was launched on Thursday by Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar at NDDB, Anand. The project aims to increase the productivity of milch animals and provide India's 70 million small-holder rural milk producers with greater access to the organised milk-processing sector. The official release says the new central sector scheme is a six year plan and would be implemented in 14 major...

-The United Nations The world must tackle the urgent challenge of ending hunger if it is to ensure a model of development that is sustainable over the long term, the head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) stressed today. “We cannot call development sustainable if we are leaving almost one in every seven people behind, victims of undernourishment,” Director-General José Graziano da Silva told participants at FAO’s biennial regional...

-One World South Asia The World Bank signs an agreement with India to inject $ 352 million into the National Dairy Support Project, an initiative designed to revive the flagging fortunes of milk production in the country. Other than being crucial to the nutritional security of the country’s population; Dairy farming or Dairying is also a major source of livelihood for 147 million rural households in India. Spurred by the success of the...