Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: Surging food inflation, decline in agriculture growth rate and the impending food security bill are expected to be at the centre of the coming Union budget.

Endorses a more comprehensive, strengthened Right to Food Act

New Delhi, 17 Feb: Nobel laureate Dr Amartya Sen has stressed on the need for a firm recognition of the right to food and a comprehensive legislation to guarantee it to everybody.

Days after Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh overruled experts to put on hold the release of Bt brinjal and said biotech research could not be left to the private sector, Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today said that genetically modified crops could solve the country

Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is firm in his belief that genetically-modified crops could solve the country

EVEN as agriculture minister Sharad Pawar accepted that the last word on Bt Brinjal was that of environment minister Jairam Ramesh, he made a strong case for genetically modified crops. Arguing in favour of the GM crops, Mr Pawar said that it could solve the country

MUKESH RANJAN
NEW DELHI

Amidst talk of the proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA) and spiralling prices of essential commodities in the country, India will soon ink a MoU with the US to ensure food security in the country.

Amid concerns of a rising fiscal deficit, the government is unlikely to include Above Poverty Line (APL) families under the ambit of the proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA). This will mean that the government may not be legally bound to provide 25 kg of rice or wheat to 13.26 crore APL families at the hugely-subsidised rate of Rs 3 per kg.

CHENNAI: For every one degree rise in temperature, 6 million tonnes of wheat will be lost in India, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN estimates. How do you feed a hungry, growing world population with climate change knocking at the door?