short of food: Asia could face chronic food shortage if the region fails to improve irrigation management, a UN report said. A joint report of the UN

BHAWANIPATNA: Tribals are more prone to infectious diseases due to malnutrition. An Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) bulletin said this in October 2003. In 2009 too this holds good in some of the tribal pockets of Kalahandi which are witnessing gastroenteritis and malaria in epidemic proportions.

One of the major factors affecting the health and growth of children in the State is lack of easy accessibility to immunization services. Lack of information regarding nutrition and inaccessibility to nutritious food have also become a matter of concern with more than 50 per cent of children in the State suffering from malnutrition.

Malnourished children of the Kolhan division can now bite into their share of healthy and nutritious food with the first therapeutic food processing unit in the country being set up at the anganwadi training centre in Kadma.

Harda: In order to combat malnutrition among children and expectant mothers, the district administration has been geared up to provide nutrient-enriched packaged food every week at anagnwadis, official sources said today.

The scheme would be implemented shortly in which young children and expectant mothers would be benefitted.

- Six malnutrition treatment centres have opened doors in the state since July

The state has received six more malnutrition treatment centres, in the past two to three months, that aim to curb the mortality rate among infants.

Climate change threatens to bring food and water shortages to 1.6 billion people in South Asia, with the region's poorest likely to be worst hit, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said here Wednesday. New research commissioned by the ADB shows that if current climate trends persist until 2050, maize yields in South Asia will fall by 17 percent, wheat by 12 percent and rice by 10 percent.

Now the state and students can fight the battle against malnutrition together.

Pooja Talikoti, an associate professor with the department of nutrition, University of Rajasthan, who is also associated with Unicef, has decided to bring students of Jamshedpur Women

Alipurduar, Sept. 1: Deaths caused by water-borne diseases continue to haunt the closed Dheklapara Tea Estate with a three-year-old girl dying of jaundice last evening.