Tag: Food

Indonesia on Saturday warned fellow Southeast Asian states that rising food and energy prices could drive more people into poverty and urged coordinated action...

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Expressing surprise that over 20 provincial Food Department officers continue to enjoy lucrative posts despite involvement in irregularities of over Rs 70 million, the...

ISLAMABAD - Export of food group, during the last nine months of current financial year, has registered an increase of 25.55 percent compared to the same period of last financial year. Food commodities, worth $3.083 billion, were exported during the period from July to March 2010-11 as against $2.455 billion in the year 2009-10, said figures released by the Federal Bureau of Statistic on Tuesday.
Export of basmati rice increased by 4.67 percent during the period under review, as

DASKA - Stall holders are selling unhygienic food which is causing abdominal diseases among the residents of Daska, Sambriali, Pasrur and Sialkot while food inspectors have turned a blind eye towards the situation. With the advent of summer season, the stalls of golas, ice creams and other eatables have been set up on roadsides and outside the schools. These stall holders sell substandard and unhygienic food items which cause diseases among the residents while the food inspectors take

ISLAMABAD - The food group export from the country during last nine months of current financial year registered an increase of 25.55 percent as compared to the same period of last financial year.
Food commodities worth US$ 3.083 billion were exported during the period from July to March 2010-11 as against the US$ 2.455 billion of the year 2009-10, said the figures released by the Federal Bureau of Statistic on Tuesday.
The export of basmati rice increased by 4.67 per cent

KARACHI - Foreign exhibitors at the eighth PLASTI & PACK and eighth IFTECH Pakistan 2011 have observed that Pakistan has emerged a good market for quality machines and technology with local entrepreneurs becoming more quality conscious about food grading, packaging and processing.
Speaking to media on the concluding day of the event at Karachi Expo Centre here Friday, they said the demand for latest food and plastic technology and machines is rising in Pakistan. Bertuzzi Food

ROME - World food prices fell for the first time in eight months in March after record highs largely due to oil prices, though the situation remains volatile, the UN's food agency said on Thursday.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation's Food Price Index dropped to an average 230 points in March, down 2.9 percent from its peak in February, but still 37 percent above March 2010, the Rome-based agency said.
"The decrease in the overall index this month brings some welcome

ISLAMABAD - The danger of food security could be a major concern in the future if the government fails to reform economy to reduce the widening gap between the cost of food and the purchasing power of the people, experts told Pakistan Today.
World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director Wolfgang Herbinger had also showed concern in Geneva a few days ago over high food prices in Pakistan. "The crop outlook is not bad but the food security situation remains difficult because prices

ROME - More than 6 million people in North Korea urgently need food aid because of substantial falls in domestic production, food imports and international aid, the United Nations said on Friday.
In a report released after a joint mission to the reclusive communist state, where a famine in the 1990s killed an estimated 1 million people, three UN agencies said North Korea's public distribution system would run out of food at the beginning of the lean season that runs between May

ISLAMABAD - Malaysian companies are eagerly seeking to invest in livestock and dairy sectors in Pakistan to increase the import of halal meat and dairy products to the tune of $1.0 billion per annum.
This was revealed by Board of Investment (BOI) Chairman Saleem H. Mandviwalla at a joint news conference with the Ambassador of Malaysia Dato Ahmad Anwar Bin Adnan in a media briefing on the upcoming Pakistan investment conference in Kuala Lumpur. The conference has been arranged in

TOKYO - Countries across the world shunned Japanese food imports on Thursday as radioactive steam leaked from a disaster-struck nuclear plant, straining nerves in Tokyo. The grim toll of dead and missing from Japan's monster quake and tsunami on March 11 topped 26,000, as hundreds of thousands remained huddled in evacuation shelters and fears grew in the megacity of Tokyo over water safety. The damage to the Fukushima nuclear plant from the tectonic calamity and a series of explosions

GENEVA The government in Pakistan has pushed food prices too high for an impoverished population, as malnutrition levels rise despite the recovery of crops after devastating floods, a UN food relief official said on Wednesday.
Wolfgang Herbinger, director for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Pakistan, said food crops especially wheat in the southern flood-hit plains were recovering fast with the prospect of decent crops over the coming weeks. "The crop outlook is not bad but the

GENEVA - Pakistan's government has pushed food prices too high for its impoverished population and malnutrition is rising despite crop recovery after dire floods, a UN relief official said.
Food crops especially wheat in the southern plains hit by last year's floods were recovering fast with the prospect of decent yields in coming weeks, said World Food Programme (WFP) director in Pakistan, Wolfgang Herbinger.
"The crop outlook is not bad but the food security situation

TOKYO - The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday that radiation in food after an earthquake damaged a Japanese nuclear plant was more serious than previously thought, eclipsing signs of progress in a battle to avert a catastrophic meltdown in its reactors.
News of progress at Fukushima nuclear plant was overshadowed by mounting concern that radioactive particles already released into the atmosphere have contaminated food and water supplies.
"Quite clearly it's a

KARACHI - The poor and the deserving are being provided with free food at service stalls established by the Chhipa Welfare Association (CWA) across the city. The increase in the number of poor citizens who cannot afford two meals a day amid skyrocketing prices of essential commodities has also caused problems for the CWA to meet the escalating need of feeding the citizens.
Social worker, founder and CWA Chairman Ramzan Chhipa has launched a campaign to meet the feeding

KARACHI - Shezan International Limited, a well-known consumer brand having a good local and international market share in processed food items and beverages, has announced the complete range of jam, jelly and marmalade in newly-designed jars and packaging.
It was announced by the company's Director Marketing Waseem Amjad Mehmood during a press conference at Avari Towers, Karachi. He said the products would have added chunks of fresh fruit giving extra nutritional value to the