National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation, the central government's procurement agency for non-cereal crops, is in talks with leading retail companies to serve as a back-end supply chain in agri-commodities.
The time-tested traditional foods that our grandparents relied on may not be very popular. But their nutritional diversity is indisputable, says Ameve Sharma.
The food processing sector in the country with its vast potential has emerged as one of the major driver of economic growth. It is encouraging to note that while the country's GDP growth rate had increase from 3.5 per cent in 2002-03 to 9 percent in 2006-07, the food processing sector has grown from 7 per cent to 13.1 per cent during the same period. India is a country of over 1.10 billion consumers, there is a large untapped domestic market of 1,000 million consumers.
ONQI is a new rating system designed to evaluate foods from the healthiest (100) to the least nutritious (1).
The irony of this scheme to benefit farmers is that it could add to the problems for the government because the mechanism to procure and store crops like pulses, coarse cereals and oilseeds barely exists.
NITI Aayog has been working on an action plan to relieve rural distress and energise the agricultural sector
The finance ministry on Tuesday cited "green shoots" of recovery in agriculture, manufacturing and services sectors, and said the prompt policy measures taken by the government and RBI have helped reinvigorate the economy with minimal damage. Stating that the agricultural sector remains the foundation of the Indian economy, the ministry said that a normal monsoon, as has been forecast, should support the rebooting of economy.
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Onion prices, however, continued to rule high with 79.78 per cent increase in September.
Inflation has surged to over three-year high of 7.41 per cent due to rising prices of fruits and vegetables, pulses, cereals and manufactured items.
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Inflation has zoomed to a high of 11.42 per cent for the week ended June 14, 2008, against 11.05 per cent in the previous week.
According to an NSSO survey, Indians in rural areas spend less than Rs 21 per day, while in urban area an Indian spends about Rs 39 per day.
Even though the government is making tall claims about the agriculture loan waiver and myriads of schemes for the uplift of farmers in the country, if you want to know the plight of small farmers you have to really go to the grassroots and ask them. In India there is not a single small-scale farmer who is living a happy life with enough income from his fields.
US President George W Bush and his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have their numbers wrong when they accuse China and India of contributing to the global food crisis as a result of growing prosperity-led consumption.
In a recent call to Filipinos, president Arroyo said they should boil rice with sweet potatoes or they should go for cheaper cereals to avoid going hungry as rice prices soared to record levels. "This is a once-a-millennium global crisis. We have an action plan," Arroyo said, noting that residents of the central island of Cebu are already using cheap sweet potatoes to beat the crisis.
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Inflation in onion continued to rule high at 42.22 per cent and in potato at 43.25 per cent.
The latest official numbers on the price of agricultural produce gives an idea of what's fueling the farmers' protest in Delhi.
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The estimate said the total foodgrains production in 2006-07 will at 216.13 million tonnes. It comprises 92.76 million tonnes of rice, 74.89 million tones of wheat, 34.25 million tonnes of coarse cereals and 14.23 million tonnes of pulses.
The situation is unlikely to improve in the near- to medium-term, as the crop outlook is far from satisfactory in most of the major wheat-exporting countries. Matters have got even worse because some of the other cereals, notably maize, are being diverted to bio-fuel production as a response to spiralling crude oil prices. The worst-affected, predictably, are the low-income, food-deficit countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, who face 25 per cent rise in their food bill.
Global food prices will come under further pressure on Monday as benchmark prices for cereals at much higher levels come into operation, making it almost inevitable that a second wave of food price inflation will hit the world's leading economies.
The BJP's win in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls has emboldened the top leadership to pursue a pro-woman agenda.
Kiran Vissa, co-convenor of National Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture, said that amendments to the EC Act have nothing to do with farmers' welfare but instead meant to please big players and agriculture companies. This is because small and marginal farmers don't have the storage capacity to attract provisions of the EC Act.
Inflation rose to 3.42 per cent for the week ended September 22, compared to 3.23 per cent in the previous week, mainly due to rise in prices of manufactured items like salt, imported edible oil and some food products. The wholesale price-based index stood at 5.43 per cent in the corresponding week a year ago.
This is bound to create more trouble for the Centre on the wheat front.
In MP, farmers say sales under new 'Sauda Patrak' method below MSP; Haryana mustard farmers wait for their turn to sell. The annual purchases of major rabi crops in North India largely wheat, mustard and also chana to some extent have been delayed as most cereal mandis were closed in the aftermath of the nationwide coronavirus lockdown.
The overall consumer food inflation in August fell to 5.91 per cent as against 8.35 per cent in July
Companies offering much more for wheat than govt's Rs 850 a quintal.
Economic affairs secretary S C Garg said that all macroeconomic parameters are performing well.
Will give truer reflection on price movements of food products, impact of cereal procurement prices.
The pace of retail price rise in January 2016 is the highest since 6.46 per cent in September 2014.
Wholesale fuel prices in May fell 10.51 per cent year-on-year.
Inflation eased to 4.28 per cent for the week ended June 9, as compared to 4.8 per cent for the previous week, mainly due to lower prices of food articles and some manufactured items.
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Starting August, various festivals are celebrated in different parts of the country leading to higher sales of commodities ranging from sweets, fruits and food items
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