Book predicts African food market boom

WASHINGTON The House Agriculture Committee has approved a sweeping farm bill that would trim the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program. The panel approved the bill 46-10 late Wednesday after rebuffing Democratic efforts to keep the food stamp ...

Ashok Gulati, chairman of the government's Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), has blamed the food management policy for the paradox of high inflation in cereal prices and bulging grain stocks in state godowns.

New York, Apr 16 : With climate change affecting agricultural productivity and growing populations demanding more food, it will be crucial for countries to preserve and share genetic resources to ensure food security, the United Nations agricultural agency ...

Presenting the Union Budget in Parliament today, the Finance Minister P Chidambaram expressed the hope that the India would achieve high economic growth despite slowdown in the global economic growth. Ministry of Agriculture gets a rise of 22 per cent over ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization said on Monday that grasshoppers, ants and other members of insect world are underutilized food for people, livestock and pets. A 200-page report was released at a news conference at the UN agency's Rome ...

) Increasing the productivity of rainfed agriculture, which still supplies some 60 percent of the world's food, would make a significant impact on global food production. This highlights the importance of the annual meeting of the International ...

Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Sunday said that the proposed food security bill will change the face of the nation.

Fishermen from coastal Andhra Pradesh have submitted a memorandum to Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Charan Das Mahant that they be included in the list of the Scheduled...

Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar wants the Food Security Bill, pending in Lok Sabha since last week, to be passed only after a proper debate, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said on Tuesday.