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Third farmer suicide in drought-hit Bardhaman district
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ted,” said Naren Dey, Minister for Agriculture.
Clarifying that there was no scarcity of foodgrains in the district and that none of the families of the farmers in question faced a threat of Starvation, Mr. Meena said some of them had fallen into a debt trap with local money-lenders because of inadequate institutionalised financing. “There is a need for improving the access to loans from banks and micro-financing. We had a meeting with |
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Global aid needed to help Pakistan avoid losing wheat crop, says UN agency
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ion livestock and 6 million poultry were lost in the heavy rains, and it is expected that more than 1 million buffalo, cattle, sheep and goats owned by people living in flooded areas are in danger of Starvation unless they receive animal feed.
FAO also cautioned that without immediate vaccinations, the risk of spreading diseases, including food-and-mouth disease, is great as people and herds are fleeing inundated areas.
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Drought-affected West Bengal hit by lack of farm investment by Romita Datta
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ivity.”
The per capita production of foodgrains in West Bengal is 525gm, against the national average of 413gm, but because per capita purchasing power is very low in West Bengal, cases of Starvation and poverty are widespread in the state, according to Sarkar.
At least two farmer suicides till now have been blamed on the drought, and both farmers were indebted to money lenders. People are forced to borrow at exorbitant rates because s |
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Appu And Shera by Jyoti Punwani
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the prime minister was at her peak, way too removed from the squalor that marked the lives of those building the games venues.
As expected, these were labourers brought from the country’s Starvation sites—Orissa, Rajasthan, Bihar, Bengal, Andhra Pradesh—with the promise of high wages. But in a spectacle that cost the country Rs 700 crore, the average wage paid to them at the games venues ranged from Rs 8 to 10 a day (Rs 7 for w |
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Isolated tribal villages facing Starvation in Manipur by Iboyaima Laithangbam
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Three tribal villages in Manipur's Ukhrul district are facing Starvation due to their being cut off from other parts of the State since the July 29 landslip between Chingai and Quingai.
The situation worsened after another landslip on August 15.
In addition, the washing away by a flash flood of the wooden bridge over the Rondei river connecting these villages with the rest of the district has greatly impeded transportation.
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KV Thomas, Minister of State for Agriculture interviewed by Bijay Kumar Singh
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y godowns are vacant and the ministry was severely criticised. Eventually, the FCI had to close some godowns. Now, we have a situation of surplus.
But how will you explain the disconnect between Starvation and the wastage of food grain?
The FCI has dual responsibility. Its first priority is to provide minimum support price to farmers. It has been doing that very well. Its second responsibility is procurement of food grain and its storage. T |
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India Asks, Should Food Be a Right for the Poor? by Jim Yardley
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— Inside the drab district hospital, where dogs patter down the corridors, sniffing for food, Ratan Bhuria’s children are curled together in the malnutrition ward, hovering at the edge of Starvation. His daughter, Nani, is 4 and weighs 20 pounds. His son, Jogdiya, is 2 and weighs only eight.
Landless and illiterate, drowned by debt, Mr. Bhuria and his ailing children have staggered into the hospital ward after falling through India&rs |
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Hungry for more by Ritu Priya
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ational Advisory Council (NAC) wants a minimum amount of foodgrain for all households (BPL and Above Poverty Line) at subsidised but differential rates. The present levels of malnutrition, hunger and Starvation deaths need urgent measures. Therefore, setting of a timeline for the implementation (a year in 25 per cent of the worst-affected blocks) in the country is welcome. However, these are minimalist measures, given that no district in the country c |
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Inflation: A nation forced to go on distress diet by Rukmini Shrinivasan
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s of PDS. In states with a better functioning PDS, such as Tamil Nadu where the scheme is universal, poor families, like that of Valli in Chennai, said subsidized grain had served as a buffer against Starvation.
Most worryingly, hapless parents across the country, including those in agriculturally prosperous Punjab, said that they were giving their children more nutritious food five-six years ago than what they are able to afford now. In Ahmedab |
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Rice husk power to light up villages
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d by NRI entrepreneur Gyanesh Pandey has gone on to dispel darkness in over 125 villages since 2007.
“The conventional technologies and grids had failed to deliver for the pervasive energy Starvation in the country and I wanted to find an environmental-friendly non-conventional source and low cost of energy,” Mr. Pandey told PTI.
A native of Bihar's Baithania village, he chucked a promising career in the semiconductor industry in |
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