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  • Farmers have to shift from rice to millet cultivation to scale back excessive water consumption: Amitabh Kant

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Indian farmers have to shift from rice to millet cultivation to scale back excessive water consumption, India’s G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant on Wednesday mentioned, including that solely millets must be given within the Centre’s flagship Poshan Abhiyan.

    Addressing an occasion organised by trade physique CII, Kant mentioned millets are nutritious and wealthy in micronutrients, notably protein, and the problem is to push the consumption of millets to the next stage in India.

    “India needs to move away more and more from rice and wheat cultivation, and produce and export more and more millets. Cultivation of millets will also help save water,” he mentioned.

    Kant famous that the personal sector must play a key position in making millet the superfood of India.

    “All Poshan Abhiyan schemes should only give millets,” former Niti Aayog CEO mentioned.

    ALSO READ | Supporting Millet Mission, this Chhattisgarh cafe sells wholesome cereal-based dishes

    In 2018, the Centre launched its flagship programme, the Poshan (Prime Minister’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment) Abhiyaan to attract nationwide consideration to and take motion in opposition to malnutrition in a mission mode.

    Also, talking on the occasion, Manoj Ahuja, Secretary, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, mentioned that millets are the normal meals of India and may be grown in very troublesome areas additionally.

    “We are also looking at an international audience to sell our millet-based products. Recently, 5-6 Indian companies exhibited their millet-based products in an exhibition in Brussels,” he mentioned.

    Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) CEO G Kamala Vardhana Rao mentioned that the ministry of well being has written to states, saying millets must be served in jails additionally.

    Rao mentioned millets melas shall be organised in 100 cities.

    “We have planned to start health clubs in schools also,” he added.

    NEW DELHI: Indian farmers have to shift from rice to millet cultivation to scale back excessive water consumption, India’s G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant on Wednesday mentioned, including that solely millets must be given within the Centre’s flagship Poshan Abhiyan.

    Addressing an occasion organised by trade physique CII, Kant mentioned millets are nutritious and wealthy in micronutrients, notably protein, and the problem is to push the consumption of millets to the next stage in India.

    “India needs to move away more and more from rice and wheat cultivation, and produce and export more and more millets. Cultivation of millets will also help save water,” he mentioned.

    Kant famous that the personal sector must play a key position in making millet the superfood of India.

    “All Poshan Abhiyan schemes should only give millets,” former Niti Aayog CEO mentioned.

    ALSO READ | Supporting Millet Mission, this Chhattisgarh cafe sells wholesome cereal-based dishes

    In 2018, the Centre launched its flagship programme, the Poshan (Prime Minister’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment) Abhiyaan to attract nationwide consideration to and take motion in opposition to malnutrition in a mission mode.

    Also, talking on the occasion, Manoj Ahuja, Secretary, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, mentioned that millets are the normal meals of India and may be grown in very troublesome areas additionally.

    “We are also looking at an international audience to sell our millet-based products. Recently, 5-6 Indian companies exhibited their millet-based products in an exhibition in Brussels,” he mentioned.

    Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) CEO G Kamala Vardhana Rao mentioned that the ministry of well being has written to states, saying millets must be served in jails additionally.

    Rao mentioned millets melas shall be organised in 100 cities.

    “We have planned to start health clubs in schools also,” he added.

  • India bans export of damaged rice

    After imposing 20 per cent export responsibility on non-basmati rice, the federal government has banned the export of damaged rice with an purpose to extend home availability, in response to a authorities notification.

    “Export policy of broken rice …is amended from ‘Free’ to ‘Prohibited’,” the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) mentioned in a notification dated September 8, 2022.

    The notification comes into impact from September 9, 2022.

    Provisions beneath the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 concerning the transitional association shall not be relevant to this notification, it added.

    The notification additionally mentioned, in the course of the interval September 9-15, sure consignments of damaged rice will probably be allowed to be exported.

    Consignments will probably be be allowed for exports throughout this era the place loading of damaged rice on ships has commenced earlier than this notification, the place the delivery invoice is filed and vessels have already berthed or arrived and anchored on Indian ports and their rotation quantity has been allotted earlier than this order.

    Exports can even be allowed in case the consignment has been handed over to the Customs earlier than this notification and is registered of their system, it mentioned.

    The approval for loading in such vessels will probably be issued solely after affirmation by the port authorities involved concerning anchoring/berthing of the ship for loading of damaged rice previous to the notification.

    The authorities on Thursday imposed a 20 per cent export responsibility on non-basmati rice apart from parboiled rice to spice up home provides amid a fall in space beneath the paddy crop within the present Kharif season.

    According to a notification by the income division, an export responsibility of 20 per cent has been imposed on ‘rice in husk (paddy or rough)’ and ‘husked (brown) rice’. The export responsibility comes into impact from September 9.

    The space beneath the paddy crop has been down by 5.62 per cent at 383.99 lakh hectare within the ongoing Kharif season to date as a consequence of poor rains in some states, as per the newest knowledge launched by the agriculture ministry.

    India, the world’s second-largest rice producer after China, instructions a 40 per cent share within the world commerce.

    The nation exported 21.2 million tonne of rice in 2021-22, of which 3.94 million tonne had been basmati rice. It exported non-basmati rice value USD 6.11 billion in the identical interval, as per official knowledge.

    The nation exported non-basmati rice to greater than 150 international locations in 2021-22.

    Paddy is the primary Kharif crop, sowing of which begins with the onset of the southwest monsoon in June and harvesting begins from October onwards.

    Rice manufacturing rose to a file 130.29 million tonne within the final crop yr as in opposition to 124.37 million tonne in 2020-21.

    The authorities has already restricted exports of wheat.

  • Madras HC orders discover on plea to quash govt order proposing to ship rice to Sri Lanka 

    By PTI

    CHENNAI: Alleging Rs 54 crore estimated loss within the buy of 40,000 tonne rice to be despatched to Sri Lanka in strains with a Tamil Nadu authorities resolution, a PIL petition has been filed within the Madras High Court to scrap the proposal and consequently direct the authorities involved to take steps to buy the rice by way of the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and the Food Corporation of India (FCI) in New Delhi.

    When the general public curiosity litigation petition, additionally praying for a route to the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) to conduct an inquiry into the matter, got here up for listening to on Thursday, a trip bench of Justices G R Swaminathan and Senthil Kumar Ramamurthy posted it after summer time trip, in order to allow the authorities involved to file their counter-affidavits.

    According to petitioner A Jaishankar of Tiruvarur, Chief Minister M Okay Stalin introduced within the state Assembly on April 29 that 40,000 tonne of rice can be supplied to Sri Lanka to assist the residents who’re going through acute hardships on account of financial crises in that nation.

    Pursuant to this, the Tamil Nadu Civil Supply Corporation on May 5 submitted a proposal to the Finance and Consumer and Co-operative departments to grant permission to buy the rice.

    It was acknowledged within the stated proposal that the Corporation had carried out a gathering with varied rice millers they usually have agreed to provide rice on the fee of Rs 33 per kg, together with all bills besides transportation price.

    After negotiations, the rice millers agreed to provide 40,000 tonne of any one among three types of par-boiled rice–Co-51, ADT-45 and Andhra Ponni on the fee of Rs 33.

    50 web per kg together with transportation, loading, unloading, dealing with, toll costs, bag with printing and all different related expenditure as much as supply level at Chennai/Tuticorin Ports.

    The whole price has arrived at Rs 134 crore and the federal government on May 9 granted the monetary sanction.

    Petitioner contended that the authorities involved had taken a hasty resolution to buy such an enormous amount of rice with out approaching the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and the FCI, from the place the rice may be bought at a subsidised fee.

    The provisions of the Tamil Nadu Transparency in Tenders Act got a go-by. The means through which that they had acted raised a variety of suspicions, he submitted.

    Petitioner identified that the worth of rice per quintal (100 kg) is Rs 2,000 within the open market gross sales scheme for 2022.

    If the authorities involved had opted to buy the rice underneath the stated scheme, it could have introduced down the expenditure from Rs 134 crore to only Rs 80 crore, leading to a saving of about Rs 54 crore.

    Following criticism on the social media, the federal government had issued a press launch later, whereby it was acknowledged that the central authorities was supplying rice just for the general public distribution scheme (PDS) underneath the subsidised fee of Rs 20 per kg and it can’t be bought from them and despatched to another nation.

    The State needed to challenge as if the federal government had taken a choice to buy high-quality rice and it can’t be in contrast with the one provided by the FCI underneath the PDS scheme, the petitioner contended.

    The authorities not directly acknowledged that the PDS rice provided by the FCI was low high quality and therefore, it determined to buy on a nomination foundation.

    The authorities had additionally warned that if anybody raises the problem, he/she is going to face applicable authorized motion.

    The authorities involved had utterly did not both enquire with the Union authorities or the FCI for the availability of rice and there was no point out within the GO or within the press launch that the Centre had rejected their request.

    The state authorities had taken a ‘hasty’ resolution with out verifying this side and with out analysing the opposite modes of buy and thereby dedicated a critical error, which might quantity to Rs 54 crore loss to the exchequer, the petitioner contended.

  • Organic farming by getting ready natural manure and natural pesticides from cow dung and cow urine in Dhamtari

    Organic farming by making natural manure and natural pesticide medicines from cow dung and cow urine of Gaumata is making numerous crops rice, radish, bhata, Khem Sahu Kurra resident close to Sambalpur in entrance of Tata Motors showroom in Chanabut Raipur Road. The weight of radish is three and a half kilos and it is vitally smooth, the load of reflux additionally stays as much as one kilo. Its style and odor can be very stunning and pure. Khem Sahu can be doing natural farming of rice in his village Kurra. In the current state of affairs, all of the meals, vegetables and fruit produced by means of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is turning into very harmful for the physique, its important high quality components are additionally being polluted. Its pure style and aroma has additionally disappeared. District Workman Mohan Lal Sahu of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Dhamtari says that using chemical pesticides and manure grains, vegetables and fruit has decreased the physique’s resistance.

    The physique’s immunity has decreased a lot that even the frequent sickness fever, chilly, cough with out antibiotic medication just isn’t cured. While this antibiotic medication just isn’t appropriate for the physique. Earlier, natural farming was produced from cow dung manure and cow urine of Gaumata. Due to this the immunity of human physique was fairly good. The illness was additionally cured through the use of antibiotics with out the standard medicines. Man’s age was additionally very lengthy. Due to using chemical fertilizers and pesticides, severe ailments associated to the physique like liver, kidney, and many others. have gotten incurable and different ailments like most cancers. The use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is decreasing the land fertilizer capability, the land is turning into barren. The pure steadiness can be deteriorating. The lifetime of different animals, animals and birds is being affected together with people. Birds tweeting in the home courtyard are additionally disappearing. In truth, the significance of cow breeding must be given extra emphasis in current instances. There is life within the creation solely by the preservation and promotion of Gaumata. All peasant brothers ought to perform a public consciousness marketing campaign by selling natural manure produced from cow dung, cow urine.