Food Wastage

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

The menace of hunger or undernourishment can be mitigated to a considerable extent just by curtailing the wastage of raw food and making a better use of the left-over cooked food

Instead of finishing your leftovers, you let them go bad and buy takeout.

Around 85 per cent of Unilever's foods portfolio would support a diet providing a maximum of 5g of salt intake a day by 2022

The bills are aimed at helping smallholder farmers get a better price for their produce and invest in technology to improve their farm productivity

The sudden and massive push to curb the problem of discarded leftovers -- known as the "Clean Plates Campaign" -- has puzzled experts

The above measures were aimed at improving the mechanisation and intelligence of meal making, reduce the labour intensity and energy consumption of cooking

This week, Xi rolled out a new push to curb the 'shocking and distressing' problem of discarded leftovers, as he seeks to fortify a fragile food supply strained by floods, epidemics, locusts and trade

'The thought behind the project is to create a food surplus from cuts of vegetables and meat that are usually thrown away'

Says rather govt will encourage them to take voluntary steps in this regard

Govt is drafting a questionnaire for restaurants to explain what dish sizes they should serve

At present, post-harvest food losses are to the tune of Rs 1,00,000 crore, which is 1 per cent of the country's GDP