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The agriculture and food sector in India employ a significant proportion (about 44 percent) of the workforce, the … of their occupation. About 67 percent of the population in India is aged 15-64 years while 27 percent is aged 0-14 years … (UNFPA n.d.). This offers both a challenge and an opportunity to skill the youth as well as the existing workforce in India …
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The agriculture and food sector in India employ a significant proportion (about 44 percent) of the workforce, the … of their occupation. About 67 percent of the population in India is aged 15-64 years while 27 percent is aged 0-14 years … (UNFPA n.d.). This offers both a challenge and an opportunity to skill the youth as well as the existing workforce in India …
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's population. In fact, however, nearly all this progress reflects gains made in reducing poverty in China and India, two of the … lesser extent India, are remarkable accomplishments that bear closer investigation. What do the experiences of these two … combating poverty? These three essays compare the experiences of China and India to learn what steps each country took and what …
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's population. In fact, however, nearly all this progress reflects gains made in reducing poverty in China and India, two of the … lesser extent India, are remarkable accomplishments that bear closer investigation. What do the experiences of these two … combating poverty? These three essays compare the experiences of China and India to learn what steps each country took and what …
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, when India celebrates 75 years of her independence. This is a grand vision for ushering in a sort of revolution in clean … energy in India in the next six years. In a country that generates more than 60 percent of its power by burning coal, and … country has just touched 8000 MW by July end, 2016, and no country in the world has such an ambitious target as India has set …
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India's policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support … production by 20 MMT over the subsequent five years. The results: India contained food inflation below 7 per cent in 2007 … robust production and stock levels, rice exports surged when India freed up its exports in September 2011, making it a world …
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India imports more from Africa than Africa does from India. A large share of Indian imports from Africa are oil and … minerals. However, the India-Africa relations in food and agriculture are already important but have potentials for expansion …. For complex reasons Africa had no transformation of its agriculture comparable to India's during its erstwhile Green …
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, particularly on food systems. It also takes up an important issue of millions of migrant workers in India who seem to have suffered … 2917 migrant workers in six different states of India. At the end, the study gives recommendations on how to broaden the …
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The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … that at an all-India level, 46.7 per cent or 25.9 MMTs of the off-taken grain did not reach the intended PDS beneficiaries … in 2011-12. The percent share of total leakage increased with states where greater percent of India's poor resided (five …
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