In the KMS 2024-25, Punjab stored 171.86 LMT of paddy, with 116.30 LMT of rice deliverable. To date, 33.74 LMT (about 29.02 percent) of this rice has been delivered.

In the Indian state of Punjab, Amanpreet Dhillon, 26, said many families in his village — just 13 km (8.08 miles) from the border with Pakistan — have already sent women and children to safer ...

As a result, India’s Public Distribution System (PDS) is the world’s largest food transfer program, and India’s most far-reaching social safety net. PDS operates in a similar manner to how food stamps ...

As late as the 1960s, India was one of the world’s largest importers of food aid. Today, with more cropland than any other nation on earth, it’s a leading global producer of rice, wheat, milk ...

India's food inflation has averaged 6.3% between June 2020 and June 2024, a central bank study published in August showed, compared to 2.9% in the previous four years.

Junk Food's $30 Billion Opening Is India's Next Health Crisis Packaged food companies, hampered in Western markets, are pushing into developing nations with weaker public health awareness.

A month ago, as Russia’s war in Ukraine pushed the world to the brink of a food crisis, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi offered to help countries facing shortages.

India has about 10 percent of the world’s grain reserves, according to data from the United States Department of Agriculture, a large surplus resulting from its heavy subsidizing of its farmers.