Food Prices

Pricing food in poor India

The government is being severely criticised for the wheat it is now planning to import. Rightly so. India s season for wheat ended a few months ago. When the crop was being harvested the

Publication Date:

30/07/2007

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

16

Issue:

20070731

pp:

5

Tags:

Agriculture, Agricultural Inputs, Wheat, Food Policy, Food Prices, Trade, Farmers, Subsidies, Imports, Industry, Government Of India (GOI), India

Agriculture

Protests against retail chains getting into fruits and vegetables

At least three major cities saw protests in May against Reliance, India's largest corporation, entering the business of retailing fresh vegetables and fruits through its brand Reliance Fresh. In

Publication Date:

29/06/2007

Author(s): Sopan Joshi

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Vegetables, Food Prices, Food Supply, Food Process Industry, Farmers, Conflicts, Unemployment, India, Ranchi (D), Indore (D)

Poverty

Grim reality of India's poverty dip

parshit Kurmi, a daily-wage labourer in Delhi since 1991, was puzzled when he was told that the government's latest estimate had found poverty levels were coming down. For the past 16 years, Kurmi's

Publication Date:

29/04/2007

Author(s): Richard Mahapatra, Sandip Das

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Food Prices, Consumption Patterns, Planning, Poverty, India, Statistics, Rural Poverty

Agriculture

South Asia

Titas gas leak Bangladesh Gas Field Company Ltd has initiated operations to stop uncontrolled gas leaks from the country's biggest gas field Titas in Brahmanbaria district. Though the gas started

Publication Date:

14/04/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Agriculture, Rice, Food Policy, Food Prices, Oil Exploration, Petrochemical Industry, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka

Industry

The food processing industry is growing faster than it and pharmaceuticals.One of the implications of this growth is that industry is buying raw materials on a large scale affecting both supply of food, which is contracting, and prices, which are rising.

Publication Date:

30/03/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20070331

pp:

0

Tags:

Food Prices, Processed Foods, Food Process Industry, Trade, Health, India

Industry

State of supply

Data compiled by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) show that in 2004, though production of most cereals decreased as compared to 1990, exports increased. Similarly, the production of pulses and groundnut decreased but exports increased. In both cases, domestic consumption too decreased. In the case of wheat, however, all three indicators showed a rise.

Publication Date:

30/03/2007

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20070331

pp:

0

Tags:

Food Prices, Processed Foods, Food Process Industry, Trade, Health, Consumption Patterns, Exports, FAO, India

Industry

Agriculture: Don't fix is the government's fix

It can be said that Union budget, 2007, is high on symbolism and intent. Most people in and close to power acknowledge that something is spoiling booming India s party price rise, agricultural

Publication Date:

30/03/2007

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

15

Issue:

20070331

pp:

21

Tags:

Agriculture, Wheat, Legumes, Food Policy, Food Prices, Water Management, Trade, Economy, Farmers, Rural Development, Economic Development, Finance, Subsidies, Exports, Imports, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Industry, India

India

Centre eases quarantine norms for wheat imports

food and environmental safety in the country has been stoked with the centre's decision to ease the quarantine norms for 5.5 million tonnes of imported wheat. The first tender for this was released

Publication Date:

30/10/2006

Author(s): Sourav Mishra

Source: Down to Earth

Tags: