-Women's Feature Service Tribal families in Bankura, West Bengal, living on a stable diet of potato and rice and occasionally some 'daal' (lentils), are now consuming a variety of vegetables, cereals, fruits and animal protein with relish on a daily basis, marking a sea change in the nutrition parametres in one of the most backward districts of India. The credit for this dramatic transformation goes to the dry land sustainable integrated farming...

-The Hindu Business Line India's experience will help it lead the charge on hunger and Food security worldwide Can India defeat hunger and malnutrition? It's a question that's been asked many times and at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), we are confident that the answer is not only "yes it can", but that India, a founding member of FAO, can play a leading role in eradicating hunger worldwide. Following Independence...

-The Financial Express Controlling Food inflation seems to have pre-occupied the attention of the Modi government, at least for now, and it has succeeded in minimising the damage despite a poor monsoon. The Modi government had to hit the ground running as far as Food and agriculture is concerned. With delayed and deficient rains in June and the spectre of El Nino, drought was looming large. Food inflation was stubbornly stuck at...

-The Hindu Business Line How ‘Protected Cultivation' can help prevent crop damage due to national disasters While the first green revolution managed to make the nation self sufficient the next round of reforms certainly needs to address the problems faced by today's farmers. According to statistics available on Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India reaped a record foodgrain production of 259.32 million tonnes (mt) in 2011-12. However, the output fell to 257.13...

-The Times of India TRICHY: From now one, children in some of the anganwadi centres under the integrated child development services (ICDS) scheme in Trichy can relish new varieties of mixed Food served during lunch. The scheme was introduced in 93 centres in Manikandam block and 119 centres in project-I in the city on Monday. The new scheme would ensure that four different varieties of mixed Food prepared with vegetables will be...