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The government is pushing ahead with its 'aam aadmi' campaign with the President I promising a National Food Security Act. Providing food to the poor is inherent to effectively combating poverty and, therefore, I feel the intention of the government is laudable.

United Nations Thursday mentioned to heavy losses to agriculture and crops following the operation in troubled areas of North West Frontier Province, to flush out extremists.

The government, it seems, has decided to go slow on the Food Security Act, something it had promised to enact very quickly, just a month ago. An early indicator of the changed approach was evident in the Budget speech when the finance minister said that a draft of the legislation would be put up on the website of the food ministry for debate

New Delhi: The finance ministry on Monday indicated that the government was preparing a back-up plan in case of failure of monsoon as it has already impacted crop sowing in a large part of the country.

The budget reiterates the government

Devesh K. Pandey

NEW DELHI: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday said agriculture would be the strongest and most important pillar of cooperation between the United States and India.

AMIT AGNIHOTRI
The Indo-US cooperation in the agriculture sector is all set for a big push with the US likely to unveil a huge financial package to help India fight hunger and achieve its food security target.

"We will be announcing five pillars of our cooperation with India on Monday.

This article attempts to flag some of the issues that are likely to come up in the debate on the Right to Food Act in the coming months. It is important to ensure that this debate focuses on the substantive issues. In the run-up to the enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the debate was somewhat derailed by a loud anti-NREGA lobby, particularly vocal in the business press.

New Delhi: With foodgrain stocks at a record 329 lakh tonnes, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

Climatic changes are generating most intense cyclones in the Arabian Sea thus disturbing the food and water availability of the country, say scientists.
According to a study the number of intense cyclones in the Arabian Sea has increased five fold in past 12 years due to sea warming, which in turn would likely jeopardise the food and water security of the country.

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