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- Hunger is a global challenge.
- Erroneous assumption: lack of food leads to hunger
- Global food production is enough to feed all human beings.
- Approximately 815 million people suffering from chronic undernourishment
- Global Hunger Index: India’s rank is 100/119
- Fact: India produces enough food to feed all its citizens.
- Though the country has been foodsecure for the past decade, its economic growth and the changing demographics are transforming patterns of food demand.
- In India, the problem is further complicated as the food basket differs from region to region.
- There is a growing need for the design and development of more efficient integrated systems of food production, processing, preservation and distribution that will feed the changing tastes of the nation.
- India wastes about 7% of its total annual food production
- India wastes almost 30% of the fruits and vegetables.
- Both, because of inadequate warehousing facilities and cold storages.
- In Africa, it is estimated that the food wasted can feed close to 40 million people.
- Hunger is increasingly a processing, storage, supply chain and logistics challenge.
- According to the International Institute of Refrigeration, if developing countries had the same level of refrigeration infrastructure as developed countries, they would save 200 million tonnes of food or around 14% of their food supply.
- In India, the National Centre for Coldchain Development (NCCD) estimates that country has only 15% of the required temperature-control transportation facilities and less than 1% of warehouse facilities dedicated for transporting preconditioned agricultural produce.
- This lack of infrastructure means that only 4% of the country’s food is moved through cold chains.
- Cold chains do not just reduce postharvest losses but also allow farmers to earn more by tapping into well-functioning remunerative markets, while maintaining the quality of their produce.
- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that food wastage accounts for 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
PMO
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong case for a partnership between the producers and consumers in the oil market to reduce energy cost.
- Mr Modi highlighted that the consuming countries face many other economic challenges including serious resource crunch due to the rising crude oil prices.
- PM: channel your surplus to pursue commercial exploitation in the oil sector in the developing countries.
Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry
- CERA Week Conference in New Delhi
- Dharmendra Pradhan said that India has to continuously engage with the global energy community to steer its own course of a new energy future.
- Mr Pradhan said any action on energy must take into account the global consensus achieved by the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the “Paris Agreement” of 2015 and decisions of the G20 Leaders’ meeting in Hamburg in 2017 that regard energy security.
Ministry for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare
- Radha Mohan Singh today said that the government has allocated more than 30 per cent funds under various schemes and activities to bring women in the agriculture mainstream.
- Mr Singh said, about 18 per cent of the agricultural households in India are led by women.
- Indian Council of Agricultural Research: Survey in 9 states
- 75 percent in the production of major crops
- 79 per cent in horticulture
- 51 per cent in post-harvest work
- 95 per cent in animal husbandry and fisheries
Communications Minister
- Manoj Sinha today said that nearly 50 percent of the BharatNet project for digitally connecting all the two lakh 50 thousand Gram Panchayats in the country has been completed and the remainder is targeted for completion by March next year.
- Bharat Broadband Network Limited has played a key role in leading the successful implementation of the BharatNet project.
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