By Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis, Shabd S. Acharya, Benjamin Davis
This quantity discusses the importance of human rights methods to meals and how it pertains to gender concerns, addressing hyperlinks among starvation and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural productiveness and the surroundings.
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The objective was to help poor families overcome the poverty line with training, capacity-building and income-generating assets through a mix of bank credit and subsidy. 9 million assisted families, the equivalent of 392 million days of employment. 2 billion. Other social assistance programmes In addition, there are several other programmes for transfer payments or other forms of assistance targeted at vulnerable sections: for example, the national old age pension scheme, under which all persons aged over 65 years and without any source of income are paid a monthly cash pension (currently Rs75).
Several of these acts/orders have been repealed, rescinded or lifted during the last five years. Nevertheless, due to the threat of their reimposition, private sector sentiment has not improved, and private investment in food marketing and processing continues to be slow. Marketing infrastructure Apart from regulatory measures and direct intervention, the structure, conduct and performance of the food marketing system depend on the status of the physical and institutional infrastructure. Infrastructure is important not only for the performance of marketing functions but also for the transfer of price signals, leading to improved marketing efficiency (Acharya 1994).
The same costs would also have to be incurred by private trade unless it were able to evade some of the statutory taxes/charges (Acharya 1997). Third, losses occurring during storage and transit are estimated to be around one per cent which, in comparison to private channels, is not unduly high. 8 per cent of its economic costs, and thus are no higher than private trade net margins. Fifth, a recent study commissioned by the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (Chand 2003) has pointed out that in order to encourage the private sector to purchase wheat and paddy from the markets of surplus-producing states, retail prices in deficit states during lean months should be at approximately the same level as the FCI’s economic costs on wheat/rice.