Nepal must brace for food shortages
Consequently, the global food crisis will directly impact countries like Nepal, which rely, to a significant extent, on imported food to sustain their food security.
Consequently, the global food crisis will directly impact countries like Nepal, which rely, to a significant extent, on imported food to sustain their food security.
The Rajya Sabha MP said the BJP government is following the maxim “Nurturing a few industrial houses and exploitation of the peasant labour”. He accused the government of cheating the farmers.
Qu Dongyu, head of the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN, has called on the G7 economies to take steps to anticipate future food shortages.
Instead of imposing policies and programmes on the farmers in the name of development, there is a need to help farmers in availing inputs at a reasonable price and disposing of their produce at a remunerative price.
Forty per cent of its population faces an imminent shortage of food, especially in the summer months preceding the next big harvest, due to the worst agricultural yield in a decade.
