World Food India

India has been considering measures to cool domestic wheat prices, which jumped to a record high this week as supplies dwindled, Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra said on Thursday

World food prices rose for a ninth consecutive month in February

Wheat prices increased 6.8%, driven by strong global demand and expectations of reduced sales by Russia

Long forgotten during the 1990s and early 2000s as famine and hunger largely disappeared from news headlines, the WFP jumped into the spotlight again in 2007-08 as the world faced a food crisis

The UN's World Food Programme which won the Nobel Peace prize on Friday said it hopes that this recognition will further strengthen its cooperation with India

With 44 agro-based and food processing enterprises and establishments that will provide employment to 5,012 persons