Tag: Nutrition
Prof M S Swaminathan receives World Agriculture Prize, institutes fellowship with...
The financial amount associated with this prize instituted by the ICFA, will be used for creating fellowships at MS Swaminathan Research Foundation at the post-graduate level for women and men scientists...………...
National dissemination workshop on anemia free India held in Delhi
The Anemia Mukt Bharat- intensified Iron-plus Initiative aims to strengthen the existing mechanisms and foster newer strategies for tackling anemia, focused on six target beneficiary groups...……………….
National consultation on reducing malnutrition & childhood illnesses
The consultation was an opportunity to share and disseminate best practices for reducing undernutrition, maximizing the impact and reaching the most vulnerable through proven community mobilization strategies and scale up models...…………….
NIRDPR to host five-day training programme on gender sensitization in agriculture
The programme seeks to familiarize the participants with the idea of gender sensitivity and gender justice in nutrition and expose participants to innovative strategies and best practices to promote Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture...……………….
September to be celebrated as ‘National Nutrition Month’ every year
The second meeting of National Council on India’s Nutrition Challenges under POSHAN Abhiyaan was held on 24th July, 2018 at New Delhi where Ministry of WCD presented the action taken report on the recommendations of the last meeting of the council.....
ICMR launches comprehensive nutrition related mobile app, Nutrify India Now
Nutrify India Now makes available the raw food names in 17 Indian languages and is tailored to provide the most comprehensive nutritional guide to Indian users.............
Govt’s Poshan Abhiyan: Improving nutrition outcomes
Ministry of Women and Child Development to organise TECH-THON: Seminar on Technology Partnership for POSHAN Abhiyaan on 28th June 2018....................
Speciality rice varieties of Kerala are storehouse of nutrition: study
It was found that that Pokkali rice has all the desired qualities including nutritional values. It was rated among the best in terms of fibre and protein content, antioxidants with benefits of vitamin E, and minerals such as iron, boron and sulphur..................
Innovating a hearty personalized meal for patients!
Mysuru based startup, NutriParadise engineers food products as complementary to medicines which when brought together give the best results and speed up the recovery.............
Govt to set up National Nutrition Mission, allocates Rs 9,046 crore
As an apex body, the National Nutrition Mission will monitor, supervise, fix targets and guide the nutrition-related interventions across the ministries...........