Global report on food crises 2024
According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023 - a worldwide increase of 24 million
According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023 - a worldwide increase of 24 million
The government has began an agriculture rehabilitation programme for more than four lakh small, poor and marginal farmers at a cost of nearly Taka 32 crore with the aim of getting over the losses caused by the devastating cyclone Aila last month.
Speakers at a workshop yesterday underscored the need for ecological sanitation to ensure healthcare of people and save environment. They also suggested for using Ecosan toilet saying that this new toilet will not only protect public health but also produce organic fertiliser.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A food security law, to clearly define above-poverty and below-poverty line categories, will be formulated within 100 days, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Food and Public Distribution K.V. Thomas has said.
BHUBANESWAR: Exploitation of groundwater has been a raging issue in Orissa lately though the State utilises barely about 14 per cent. Now does it augur well for its resources and future generation or is it too little given the requirements of a largely agrarian economy?
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There will be changes in the guidelines for BPL families once the Food Security Act comes into force, Union Minister of State for Agriculture, Food and Civil Supplies K V Thomas has said.
Arnab Pratim Dutta
The Quechua of Peru are among the first recipients of a new global fund for becoming custodians of the world's threatened crops.
Ravish Tiwari As the Centre prepares to enact the National Food Security Act (NFSA) to implement its promise of 25 kg of rice/wheat at Rs 3 per kg for the below poverty line (BPL) families, it will have to first grapple with the anomalies in the existing public distribution system.
MUKESH RANJAN June 10: Expressing skepticism over the proposed Food Security Act, the Planning Commission on Wednesday said that the implementation of the new law would not be a cakewalk like the much-hyped NREGA. It said that fixing responsibility in case of failure in implementing the law would be an area of concern.
Priyadarshi Siddhanta