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World Food Day 2024

16 Oct 2024

World Food Day: Date, History, Theme, Significance, And More

World Food Day holds immense significance as a global initiative to combat hunger The theme for World Food Day 2024 is "Right to Food for a Better Life and a Better Future" It stands as a reminder of the ongoing fight against hunger and the need for global cooperation to ensure food security for all

02 Oct 2024

IND Eases Rice Export Restrictions, Boosting Domestic Prices Ahead of Harvest

Several other market participants say that rice prices in other key growing nations, who compete for market share with India, have started dropping, with India entering the market with little or no barrier.

17 Jul 2023

DNA: UN report...Crores of people sleep hungry

UN has presented a shocking report. In which it has been claimed that every day 73 crore people in the world are forced to sleep hungry. The UN report has claimed that every 10th person is suffering from food shortage.

03 Jan 2023

GOOD NEWS: Modi govt's big decision, over 81 cr people to get THIS for free

Under the scheme, Government of India will provide free foodgrains to all NFSA beneficiaries i.e. Antyodaya Ann Yojana (AAY) households & Priority Household (PHH) persons for the next one year through the wide spread network of 5.33 lakhs Fair Price Shops across the country.

04 Dec 2022

2 killed, 7 wounded in rare anti-government protest in Syria

Dozens of residents gathered by the Sweida governorate building, decrying the dire economic situation and chanting anti-government slogans before some broke into the building

15 Nov 2022

'Coronavirus, Ukraine War have caused HAVOC’: PM Modi at G20 Summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called for a return to the path of "ceasefire and diplomacy" to resolve the Ukraine conflict, and opposed the promotion of any restrictions on the supply of energy, amid the West's call against procurement of Russian oil and gas. In an address at the G-20 summit here, PM Modi said that climate change, the Covid-19 pandemic, the developments in Ukraine and the global problems associated with it have caused havoc in the world and rued that the global supply chains are in "ruins".

20 Sep 2022

Russia-Ukraine war: Halt in crop production to increase global food costs

A study found that the war's impact on crop production and exports in Ukraine and Russia will continue to increase the world's food prices Nations already facing significant food insecurity will be impacted most, they predict Researchers found that the change in land use across the globe will have a significant environmental impact

15 Jun 2022

WTO meeting: Goyal raises issue of public stockholding for food security

Piyush Goyal highlighted the issue of public stockholding for food security at WTO 12th Ministerial Conference He asked, "What is holding back WTO, still no solution to public stockholding for food security" "WTO is an organisation for trade, but one should remember that before the trade, there comes hunger and one cannot tread the path of trade on an empty stomach,"

06 May 2022

DNA: Earth's food may run out in 27 years?

The whole world is now moving towards such a crisis in which after 27 years from today people will crave for even one Chapati.

20 Apr 2022

Fall Armyworm threat to crop production across globe, UN raises concern

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has spent about $12 million to control this pest. This worm generally attacks 80 types of plants, including maize and rice. Fall armyworm can cover a distance of 1 thousand kilometers in a night in search of its food.

Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana

07 Jun 2021

PM Garib Kalyan Yojana extended, beneficiaries to get free ration till Diwali

PMGKAY scheme is a food security welfare scheme It was announced by the government of India in March 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic Under the PMGKAY, 5 kg of rice or wheat per person and 1 kg of pulse to each family holding a ration card is provided

19 Aug 2018

Major scientific breakthrough: Scientists decode complex wheat genome

Congratulating the Indian team involved in the research, Science and Technology Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan that this proves that our scientists are capable of matching the best in the world in any discipline.

09 Feb 2017

Food security: Team will visit Geneva for talks at WTO, says Nirmala Sitharaman

The commerce ministry will soon dispatch a team of officials to Geneva to speed up talks at WTO with an aim to find a permanent solution on food security.

13 Sep 2016

India's food production threatened due to rising ocean temperatures!

Touted to be 'the greatest hidden challenge for the present generation', the changes in ocean-focused atmospheric patterns have direct implications on food production as the yield is impacted.

11 Jul 2016

PM Narendra Modi's Africa visit: From tackling terrorism to 'Make in India' - Here are key takeaways

PM Narendra Modi is currently on the last leg of his four-nation tour of Africa.

India's food system

17 Jun 2016

India must transform its unorganised food system: Report

India's food system is largely unorganised and highly fragmented, a report by an American think-tank said, underlining that the country must reform government procurement, tariff and tax policies affecting urban food delivery to feed its growing cities.

Food and Agriculture Organisation

07 Jun 2016

Ecological balance crucial for food security in India: Shyam Khadka, FAO

03 Mar 2016

Climate change could kill 500000 extra lives by 2050

The research is the strongest evidence yet that climate change could have damaging consequences for food production and health worldwide and is the first of its kind to assess the impact of climate change on diet composition and bodyweight, and to estimate the number of deaths they will cause in 155 countries in 2050.

Indian Agricultural Research Institute

08 Feb 2016

Seven new varieties of crops released by IARI

All these varieties are resistance to both biotic (pests and insects) and abiotic (water, temperature, light) stresses.

Sumitra Mahajan

30 Jan 2016

'India all for sustainability but developed world must do its bit'

Mahajan said schemes like Make in India, Skill India and Digital India would give the country a leg-up in achieving the sustainable development goals.

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