Food Processing and Safety
Facts: In India post-harvest losses in food and food grains are around 40-50% The wastage of fruits and vegetables alone […]
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Economy for Mains
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Farmer Empowerment
Good read: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/going-against-the-grain/article8195568.ece How can mobile phone empower Indian farmer? With examples, examine the different ways by which mobile phone
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Farmer’s Income
Government has set target to double income of farmers by 2022 Can it be achieved? We need a growth of
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Farmer’s suicide
Why farmers suicides are more concentrated in one particular area? There are certain pockets in country like Vidarbha region, Marathwada,
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Fed Tapering
Context: Headline inflation in the US has reached 6.8%, the highest value in 40 years. In this context, if the
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Fertiliser
Overuse of Fertilisers: Investigations carried out under All India Coordinated Research Project on ‘Long Term Fertilizer Experiments’ over five decades
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Financial Inclusion Fund
Decision to merge Financial Inclusion fund and Financial Inclusion Technology fund into a single Financial Inclusion fund. Overall corpus 2000
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Food Corporation of India (FCI) : Issues
Recently the recommendations of the High Level Committee (HLC) to restructure, reorient and reform the Food Corporation of India (FCI)
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FDI Policy 2016
Changes in FDI policy are meant to liberalise and simplify the FDI policy so as to provide ease of
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FDI in Food Trading
Context: Government has decided to permit 100 per cent FDI under government approval route for trading of food products Permission