Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: With expectations of a record wheat production this year (2009-10), the Union government is upbeat about providing food grains to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) families on a sustained basis under the proposed National Food Security Bill.

Nistula Hebbar, SANJEEB MUKHERJEE

New Delhi: The average Indian family size is shrinking fast. With increasing migration from villages to urban areas and across states, families are becoming more nuclear with just above four members. While the government is crunching the latest numbers, it has already started impacting food grain allocation plans under the proposed Food Security Act.

INDIA BECAME independent soon after the Great Bengal Famine that claimed two million lives. An independent and free India reclaimed her food sovereignty and food security.

HumaSiddiqui
New Delhi

India should New Delhi, May 7: India should look at Latin American countries to keep its food security intact.

With little or no investment in the agriculture sector, it is estimated that 45% of Indian farmers want to quit farming

Dibang Valley reeling under nature

- Joint body of social activists & NGOs decides to keep tab on anganwadi centres

Ranchi, May 5: There are large-scale irregularities in implementation of Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) in Jharkhand, Right to Food Campaign

M.J. PRABU

Vilathikulam, in Tuticorin district, being drought prone most of the year, forced many farmers till a few years ago to either sell their lands or leave them barren.

But today more than 600 farmers in the region are successfully growing different crops ranging from sunflower to chillies, using low cost input technologies called Panchagavya (PG) for raising their crops.

POLITICS runs the risk of being reduced to the art of the passable

Ranchi, May 4: Food security in the villages of Jharkhand

The empowered Group of Ministers on food security, scheduled to meet tomorrow, will have to walk a tightrope in trying to fulfill the