ROLE OF FARMERS IN DEFENCE FOOD PROCUREMENT Indian Defence: India is always proud of its armed forces and right from the independence they are doing commendable job to safeguard the country from external forces. Be it with Pakistan or China our armed forces proved their exemplary skills in dealing with any situation and when it comes to helping neighbours like Bangladesh, Srilanka we played the role of big brother/mentor. Let all of salute our armed forces for performing the task of saving the nation at the cost of their lives. When it comes to the international relations and peace accords,   we are conducting ourselves in a dignified manner and maintaining perfect balance. Defence expenditure is one of the major budget items and despite huge pressure on finances, India is never compromising on defence budget allocations and always priority is given for allocation as well as releases. Off late the capital expenditure in defence is coming down and certainly ...

IS TRADITIONAL INDIAN FOOD FACING SURVIVAL THREAT?? It's very common practice that on Sundays people buy chicken, mutton, fish etc prepare in conventional form at home and enjoy the holiday with traditional food. Similarly vegetarians enjoy Paneer, speciality vegetable preparations at home. With the advancement of Software, finance, service sector jobs with global exposure our youth are getting attracted to pre cooked, baked, imported foods and in no time pizzas, burgers, nuggets etc became very popular and finding inroads into our semi urban and rural areas too. Similarly we Indian enjoy traditional fruits as part of food by consuming mangoes and banana with curd rice, take fruits after dinner. These practices are being replaced by natural ice creams, frozen fruit products (mainly imported) and having severe impact on our local fruits markets. With agri commodities like rice,wheat , pulses, millets, chillies, turmeric etc trading at rock bottom prices due to slack demand ...