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    Bulky Agenda Drawn Up for One-Day Conference on Food and Nutrition Security

    The conference will cover an array of issues. It will discuss food fortification, diversification of food basket, crop diversification and reforms in PDS and...
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    Rs 2,516 Crore to Computerise Last Point Farm Cooperative Credit System

    Presently, PACS account for 41 per cent or over 3 crore farmers of the kisan credit card loans given by all entities in the...
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    A Closer Look at India’s Wheat Export Ban

    Since the Indian decision to ban wheat exports may lead to an upward spike in the global price level, several countries and leading global bodies like...
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    Green, White, Blue, Pink and now, Purple Revolution

    Speaking of replicating Jammu and Kashmir’s success with lavender farming in other hill states like Uttrakhand, Himachal Pradesh and in the North-East, Union Minister...
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    Food Giants Reap Enormous Profits During Times of Crisis

    The pandemic initially exposed cracks in our supposedly efficient industrialized food system through supply chain breakdowns, worker shortages and trade restrictions. Now, we can add high food prices and growing inequality to...
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    Paying More for Less Food

    FAO report flags risks to food security from high food and agricultural input prices. It says that real prices for farmers are low and...
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    Strong Indian Pitch at WTO to Protect Interests of Developing and Under-Developed Countries

    India raised concerns about the “skewed” WTO reforms proposal and spoke of the need to retain the S&DT provisions for the developing world, global...
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    PM Modi Lists Eight Years of India’s Agricultural Transformation

    e-NAM has created a unified market through online trading platform ensured free flow of agricultural commodities from one market area to another and consequently...
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