What about India "feed the world"?Modi urges citizens to declare war on malnutrition

Extrameliest reporter Qu Jing

According to the Indian Express report on August 28, Indian Prime Minister Modi urged the Indian people to unite in his speech on Sunday, fighting with malnutrition, and using social consciousness to eliminate malnutrition.

Modi said that the Central State, Jiakanda, and Assam have proposed unique and diverse ideas to solve malnutrition problems. "Better use of technology and public participation, becoming an important part of Poshan Abhiyan (India's project designed to reduce malnutrition) ... In addition to festivals, large -scale activities related to nutritional -related -related related -related activities will be held in September."

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (PTI data map)

The report issued by the United Nations Children's Foundation on May 17 states that currently about 13.6 million children under the world are severe malnutrition. Among the 10 countries with the largest number of children in severe malnutrition, India ranks first, and severe nutrition under 5 years old is severe nutrition under 5 years old. The number of bad children reached 5.77 million.

Surprisingly, in April 2022, Modi stated that in a talks with the US President Biden, he proposed that due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, many countries fell into a grain crisis, but the world was surprised to find that In more than two years after the outbreak, India was providing free rations to nearly 800 million people.

Modi said in April that India can be fed around the world tomorrow (screenshot screenshot)

He said: "If the WTO allows, India is preparing to supply food from the world tomorrow. Our people already have enough food, and our farmers seem to have made arrangements to support the world, but I don't know the WTO organization When will it be approved? "

Just less than 4 months of his remarks, the recorded heat wave threatened India's wheat output, and the price of wheat was pushed up. According to Bloomberg, India's wheat consumption inflation has remained 9% year -on -year from 9% year -on -year. The above, soaring in July to 11.7%. Official data show that in July, wheat wholesale prices rose 13.6%, and hundreds of millions of Indians' daily lives became more expensive. The Indian government began to consider food imports.

Although it is the world's second largest wheat planting country, India has never been the main wheat exporter (Bloomberg information map)

Many experts have questioned Modi's ambition to "feeding the world", and Harrish Damandren, a senior researcher at the Indian Think Tank Policy Research Center, warned that India should not be keen to "feed the world": although the food reserves are sufficient at the moment , But it does not mean that India can restless, after all, the harvest of the next season may be lower than expected.

Even today, many children and adolescents from all over India still cannot get enough nutrition (picture source: "India Express")

According to BBC, Modi's hometown of Gujarat's malnutrition children ranked third in the entire Indian. It reminded the Indian government not to forget the previous "onion crisis". , That's food, or insufficient food. "

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