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Processing mechanisms key to food security in South Asia

According to the FAO, India is among the world’s largest producers of milk, pulses, fruits and vegetables. This production record has changed the country’s food-security horizon. The next question, for India and for the region, is how to retain more value from what is already grown. (Praful Gangurde/HT Photo)

Published 58 days ago

Bitter harvest: Yields and the illusion of farm productivity

The challenge is not whether enough food is produced, but whether it can be produced sustainably, given shrinking water tables, deteriorating soils, and the impact of the climate crisis. (AFP)

Published 75 days ago

Why El Niño leaves pain in its wake

India is the world’s largest exporter of rice and an agricultural powerhouse. (AFP)

Published 104 days ago

Common AI framework key to future development

The G20 summit in Johannesburg may be over, but its signal that a shared AI governance future is no longer optional — it is integral to how we design resilient, equitable economies. (@PresidencyZA X/ANI)

Published 243 days ago

Our two main problems: An essay by Lal Bahadur Shastri, from the HT archives

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at a refugee camp in Srinagar in 1948. ‘Khadi should be given the utmost encouragement and the people encouraged to use it even if it is somewhat costly. Government should also patronise it fully,’ Shastri writes. (HT Archives)

Updated 557 days ago

From the Archive: In independent India - A struggle beyond freedom

Lal Bahadur Shastri wrote the article on January 16, 1951

Updated 611 days ago

Experts address climate change impact on agri-food systems at PAU, Ludhiana

The global discussion is being held at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana. (HT Photo)

Published 629 days ago

Ensure speedy lifting of paddy: Punjab CM

The CM said that the state government has made elaborate arrangements for procurement of paddy. (HT File)

Updated 652 days ago

A push for FCI modernisation

FCI, a state-owned corporation through which 70% of federal food subsidies are routed, is critical for the country’s food security as it procures millions of tonnes of farm produce at federally fixed minimum support prices (HT File)

Published 834 days ago

Wheat output to reach 112 mn tonne during 2023-24: Centre

The output of winter-sown rice is expected to be 12.3 million tonne, according to data. Wheat is sown in November and harvested during March-April. (PTI)

Updated 887 days ago

Conscious kitchens serve food for thought

On World Food Day, restaurants share how they save water and food in their kitchens.

Updated 1023 days ago

ISRO chief meets late MS Swaminathan's family: ‘His passion.. drives all of us’

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S Somanath

Published 1024 days ago

World Food Day 2023: Date, history, significance

World Food Day 2023: Date, history, significance

Updated 1023 days ago

Dwelling in the ‘Anthroposea’

Mumbai’s sea, like other seas, is an “Anthroposea”: It is made up not just of water, tides, and non-human biota, but also of the matter and metabolic waste of its more than fifteen million human (and nonhuman) residents.

Published 1096 days ago

Plan for the looming El Niño trade-off

India defines average, or normal, rainfall as between 96% and 104% of a 50-year average of 89 cm for the entire four-month season. El Nino, a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically occurs every few years, is linked to crop damage, fires and flash floods.

Published 1121 days ago

NASA to spice up astronaut menu with deep space food production

Published 1163 days ago

Wholesale Price Index inflation up at 2.03% for January against 1.22% last month

Wholesale Price Index inflation up at 2.03% for January against 1.22% last month

Updated 1996 days ago

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