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Dr M S Swaminathan, who made India self-sufficient in food, passes away

 M S Swaminathan, renowned agricultural scientist and a lifelong crusader against hunger who bet on sustainable farming passed away in Chennai on Thursday. He was 98 and is survived by three......

Dr Swaminathan changed India's destiny from begging bowl to food basket

 "As I was working on agriculture, my family wanted me to take over the management of our plantations. But my aim was to master the art of developing new varieties, that is genetics and breeding. As......

Modi must worry about India's malnutrition crisis

 'With the largest number of malnourished people on the planet, India is poised to be a nation that significantly under-performs as an economy.' Photograph: Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com Dr Madhura......

West Bengal burdened with bumper paddy crop

 Uttam Majumdar is unable to sell his 330,000 kg of paddy. He is under pressure from moneylenders from whom he had borrowed over Rs 1 lakh at an interest rate of 60 per cent a year.Long known as......

Economists reject official poverty definition

 A number of prominent economists have rejected the concept of a daily earning of Rs 32 determining where to draw the poverty line separating the poor from the not-so-poor.They have warned against......

'India is relatively protected from food crisis'

 One hundred million people around the world are being deprived of the right to food. "It is a human rights crisis," says Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations's Special Rapporteur on the right to......

Farmers' suicide: Jayati Ghosh to head probe panel

 Professor Jayati Ghosh will head the 13-member Andhra Pradesh Commission on Farmers' Welfare constituted by the state government to 'probe further into the issue of agricultural development and......

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