Should You Go For Plant-based Milk Products? Here's All You Need To Know

For years, alternative kinds of milk, such as almond, soy, and even cashew milk, have been readily available. But lately, the plant-based milk category has exploded — now offering more alternative kinds of milk than ever before.

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A Nutrition Sensitive Approach To Agriculture In India

Across the rural hinterlands, the government, through various grassroots institutions, is encouraging farmers to cultivate a mix of crops that improve their own food security and nutrition requirements, besides other progressive social goals.

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Seeds Are Semiconductor Microchips Of Agricultural Sector: China Daily

China now plans to tackle core bottlenecks in agricultural technologies in its new stage of rural development

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Bayer ties up with AgroStar to deliver products to farmers during lockdown

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Sahil Sharma "India ranks at 102 among 117 economies as per the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2019. The socio-economic burden of malnutrition may get a lot heavier if we do not pay enough attention to this issue. The first quarter of 2020 has ended, and we still are busy fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. But that does not mean we can afford to stop working towards the ambitious POSHAN Abhiyaan goal of a malnutrition free India by 2022. One of the main factors which impacts nutrition is the lack of biodiversity in agriculture, which is blamed for homogeneous diets and limited access to food, leading to relentless malnutrition and hunger. We must therefore step up efforts to make agriculture more environmentally sustainable , and adapt various agricultural technologies which can result in positive, nutritional outcomes.However, this is not possible without adequate, appropriate resources to create more synergies in food technology, agriculture, biotechnology. This unification, particularly, in fostering Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for improving the status of food security and nutrition, could improve the current situation. Despite the concerns of various environmental bodies, GMOs using genetic engineering not only contribute to the food and nutrition benefits, but also boost agricultural production besides reducing a post-harvest loss. Crop breeding is one of the most direct methods of enhancing nutrition through enhanced agricultural processes. Synchronized efforts must also should be made to promote conservation practices such as crop diversification, zero soil tillage and drip or sprinkler irrigation, which could prove immensely beneficial. In fact, growing more crops that rely less on nitrogen actually helps quick acclimatization, and thus helps resolve both malnutrition as well as hunger."