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India leads consensus on future of agriculture as BRICS adopts historic Indore declarationThe declaration outlines several landmark decisions aimed at strengthening food security, farmer welfare, climate-resilient agriculture, ag...- BRICS+ agriculture beyond borders: Trade and resilience for a food-secure worldWith India’s leadership and BRICS+ cooperation, agriculture can become not only a source of food, but a foundation for resilience, prosperi...
- Science at scale: India’s journey from food security to global leadershipToday, India is the world’s largest producer of milk, pulses, and spices; the largest exporter of rice; and among the leading producers of ...
- Too hot to handle: Heatwave in North India slows textile, rice supply chainsNorthern India's blistering heatwaves are wreaking havoc on vital industries, significantly hampering the trade of Basmati rice and textile...
- West Asia conflict deals a double whammy to India’s farm sector: pre-harvest cost pressures, post-harvest shipping delaysSupply shocks, export disruptions, and labour shortages caused by the Iran war are beginning to strain India’s agriculture despite ample fo...
- ₹69,000 crore vanishes in grain leakages: Where is India’s free ration going?A new report reveals that India's Public Distribution System (PDS) suffers a 28% leakage of subsidized grains, amounting to 20 million tonn...
- Food Corporation of India depots to go online this week: GovernmentThe government will launch an online system this week to automate the operations at FCI depots in order to minimise storage losses of foodg...
- Over 2,000 Food Corporation of India depots to go online by March 2016: Ram Vilas Paswan"All the depots will have all their operation online by March, 2016," Food Minister Paswan said after releasing a logo and tag line of the ...
- Over 40,000 tonnes of grain damaged in FCI godowns in last 2 yearsThough losses are attributed to natural calamities, experts say it is also an indication of poor storage facilities, pilferage and transit ...
- India asks EU to lift import ban on some vegetablesIndia has asked the European Union to lift the ban imposed on import of some vegetables like bitter gourd and okra.
- Muzaffar Hussain Baig seeks PM Modi's intervention on foodgrain issue in J&KBaig wondered whether the Prime Minister had been apprised of the agreement on economic, developmental and relief issues of the people of t...
- Government asks FCI to automate depot operations to check grain loss"We have asked FCI to automate all depot operations to bring down storage losses of foodgrains in 18 months time," a senior Food Ministry o...
- Government Q1 foodgrains loss in transit is worth Rs 157.75 croreRam Vilas Paswan said that additional foodgrains worth around Rs 1.79 crore was damaged in storage in godowns of state-run FCI.
- Post-harvest loss in foodgrains at 6%: ICARPost-harvest loss in foodgrains in India worked out to six per cent and 18 per cent in case of fruits and vegetables, a top official in the...
- 17,000 tonnes of grain wasted in 3 yearsAt least 17,546 tonnes of foodgrain were damaged between 2009-10 and July 2012 in Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns , an RTI reply ha...
- Foodgrains output may slip below last year's record: Agriculture Minister Sharad PawarFoodgrains output in 2012-13 will be lower than last year's record output but availability would be sufficient to meet domestic demand.
- Nearly 1 lakh tonne foodgrain lost in FCI godowns: K V Thomas, Food minister'These losses occurred due to "draige of moisture, long storage, rat & bird trouble, multiple handling by labourers and spillage etc.'
- FCI incurs Rs 484 cr loss due to storage & transit lossThe Food Corporation of India (FCI) is estimated to have incurred a financial loss of Rs 484.76 crore in 2010-11 due to damage to foodgrain...
- State-of-the-art steel silos for foodgrainsSeven years after the government mooted private sector participation via build-own-operate basis for bulk handling, storage and transportat...
- FCI to rework insurance with OrientalFood Corporation of India (FCI) will renegotiate its agreement with Oriental Insurance Company (OIC) within a fortnight to insure rice and ...
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