Centre working to achieve zero hunger by 2030: Minister


New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS): Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Tuesday said that the NDA government was working continuously to achieve the goal of 'zero hunger' by 2030 in the country.

Addressing the Agri Startup and Entrepreneurship Conclave here on World Food Day, he said that the efforts of farmers and techniques developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) had contributed to an increase in agricultural production and food security in India.

Singh's remarks came in the wake of release of the Global Hunger Index (GHI) that ranked India 103rd among 119 countries.

As per the fourth advance estimate, foodgrains production in the country is estimated at 284.83 million tonnes in 2017-18, an increase of over 20 million tonnes compared with the figures of 2013-14.

The Minister said that horticultural crops, which contribute significantly to nutritional security, witnessed a record production this year at 307 million tonnes.

"The role of high-quality crop variety, seed and technology has been significant in increasing production," a release quoted him as saying.

He said that there was a requirement of 22 lakh skilled youths in the agricultural sector, for which a skilling programme was being conducted.

"There is tremendous potential for start-ups in the fields of seed and plant production, food processing and post-mortgage management, veterinary, farm machinery, poultry, fish production, biological products and bioplasty," he said.

  

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  • Gilbert, Udupi/Kuwait

    Wed, Oct 17 2018

    BJP CAN'T ACHIEVE ZERO HUNGER BY ANOTHER 100 YEARS!!! IN REALITY MADE MILLIONS OF INDIANS HUNGRY DUE TO BAD ECONOMIC POLICIES. PEOPLE WILL SHOW THEIR ANGER AND FRUSTRATION AT THE COMING ELECTIONS. ... BLIND PROMISES!!!?????

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Katapadi/Bangalore

    Wed, Oct 17 2018

    People are fed up with this kind of tall promises and have come to the conclusion that enough is enough and handover the country to the deserving hands.

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  • Chetan, Udupi

    Wed, Oct 17 2018

    Hope these people do not achieve the target by reducing the Hungry people to zero (finishing them).

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  • mohan, Mangalore

    Wed, Oct 17 2018

    What nonsence.... to whom this man is fooling ..... he cannot stop untouchsbility..... even sc st.cannot touch the garbage tank which kept in high cast colony... they cannot take the water from general public well....they cannot enter the temple ...... even in temple these people has roll over the food which thrown out....
    There is very big gap in between high cast and low cast ... rich and poor ...
    High qualified and unqualified....
    .... India day by day poorer are becoming more poorer and rich are more rich...... people are becoming more and more homeless... due land acquiring by rich and powerful people . .. high price of land and flares....
    .... I think this man is mentally abnormal..

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  • Swamy, Mangalore

    Tue, Oct 16 2018

    'Zero Hunger' how fake is this statement and fooling people. Even richest of the rich nations of the world could not achieve this humanitarian fete.

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  • Suraj Lobo, Mangalore/Dubai

    Tue, Oct 16 2018

    These have nothing to talk about their achievements ....they will only talk about some irrational stuff and take people for a ride while looting

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  • Cyril, Mangalore

    Tue, Oct 16 2018

    You mean to say before 2030 all will be finished and only rich will be survived.
    Now People are dying without food, raped and killed without security, lynched mercilessly,

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  • Swamy, Mangalore

    Tue, Oct 16 2018

    We can see that now itself taking place. Your plan is to systematically eliminate all poor and feed only your rich industrialists. But the catch is you will not see beyond May 2019 in office.

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