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Horticulture 4.0: Time to play to India’s strengths {Priyanka Singh} Trade Promotion Council of India
India should leverage its strengths in horticulture for exports through sustained efforts at value addition & market diversification, establishing farm-to-fork traceability and enabling a robust market intelligence framework. Despite ranking second globally in fruits and vegetables production, India’s share in global exports amounts to a meagre 1.7% in vegetables and 0.5% in fruits.Fruits & vegetables…
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5 – Common Questions About Generic Drugs
How they’re different from brand-name drugs Chances are, if you’ve ever had a prescription filled at a pharmacy, you’ve probably consumed a generic drug. Nearly 9 out of 10 prescriptions filled in the U.S. today are generic drugs, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Yet many people feel confused about what they are, where…
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Agro-forestry is solution to avoiding food crisis: Sadhguru
As part of Rally for Rivers, an initiative to revive depleting rivers across the country, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, founder of Isha Foundation, on Saturday, launched the ‘Cauvery Calling’ initiative. BENGALURU: If every person contributed Rs 42, it will cover the cost of saplings for nearly five million farmers, in an initiative to introduce agro-forestry along the…
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Flexitarian diets key to feeding people in a warming world
If the world wants to limit climate change, water scarcity and pollution, then we all need to embrace “flexitarian” diets, say scientists. This means eating mainly plant-based foods, and is one of three key steps towards a sustainable future for all in 2050, they say. Food waste will need to be halved and farming practices…
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New Hope: A New Day
This is the beginning of a new day. I have been given this day to use as I wish. I can waste it, or use it. I can make it a day long to be remembered for its joy, its beauty and its achievements, or it can be filled with stinginess. What I do today…
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Swami Vivekananda a true youth revolutionary leader
Swami Vivekananda was a Hindu monk and direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. Vivekananda played a key role in the introduction of Indian yoga and Vedanta philosophy in the West. He made a strong impression at the inaugural World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, 1893 – giving a powerful speech on the underlying unity of world…
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
“Che Guevara was a Marxist revolutionary, Doctor, Author, Guerrilla Leader, Diplomat and Military theorist”! Che Guevara Quotes: If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine. “Let the world change you and you can change the world”
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: Founder of the Turkish Republic
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in 1881 in Salonika (now Thessaloniki) in what was then the Ottoman Empire. His father was a minor official and later a timber merchant. When Atatürk was 12, he was sent to military school and then to the military academy in Istanbul, graduating in 1905. In 1911, he served against…
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Bhutan Fostering growth of social businesses
With the choice to focus on Gross National Happiness, Bhutan has chosen to be great instead of big. Through such an approach, the country has become a small giant. As indicated earlier (Kuensel December 8, 2018), this broad policy framework provides tremendous opportunities for leap frogging in terms of Bhutan’s economic development, should the focus…
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Education system needs to foster entrepreneurship
Employment: For most Bhutanese graduates and jobseekers, becoming an entrepreneur may not be an enticing career to pursue. The concept of entrepreneurship in Bhutan was realised only very recently, failing to attract more takers. While being an entrepreneur has benefits, it also has several challenges. In order to decipher the reason why Bhutanese amidst the…