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COVID-19 is leaving India hungry in more ways than one

Your Premier states Monthly income is 140 dollars.

Monthly income
is not the same as disposable income. Your spin and propaganda can only work on the Chinese.

Chinese media seized upon Li’s remarks, given that data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) indicates that China’s per capita disposable income was 30,733 yuan per year, or 2,561 yuan per month.

A report from The Beijing News indicates that Beijing and Shenzhen have the highest minimum wages in the country, at 2200 yuan per month, while Anhui was the lowest at 1180 yuan.

http://www.chinabankingnews.com/202...citizens-earn-monthly-incomes-of-just-usd140/
 
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Chinese media seized upon Li’s remarks, given that data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) indicates that China’s per capita disposable income was 30,733 yuan per year, or 2,561 yuan per month.

A report from The Beijing News indicates that Beijing and Shenzhen have the highest minimum wages in the country, at 2200 yuan per month, while Anhui was the lowest at 1180 yuan.

http://www.chinabankingnews.com/202...citizens-earn-monthly-incomes-of-just-usd140/

Once again, your attempts at propaganda and spin can only work on the Chinese. The quote you submitted is from the same article.

Anyone with a basic comprehension of the English language can clearly see that the Chinese media was taken back because CHINA's PREMIER Premier Li Keqiang contradicted what the NBS had previously reported i.e The Chinese Premier's statement showed the NBS statement was fake. Which does not surprise any of us outside of China

At the close of China’s 2020 Two Sessions congressional meeting on 28 May Li said at a press conference that “600 million people have monthly incomes of just 1000 yuan” (approx. USD$140.6).

Beijing and Shenzhen don't make up all of China. 1.4 billion people don't live in just two cities. This seems yet another attempt at spin and propaganda. Beijing news is a state media propaganda news. Please take care of your 600M people making less than 140 dollars/month, instead of spending money on scamming schemes for other countries.
 
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I don't see a problem if Indians eat rats, bats or whatever. India is 1/3 the size of China with same population and low agriculture production. Their government is wasting money buying foreign weapons and "containing" China.
The poor indian people need to eat whatever they can find in order to survive.
Given the state of India, I cannot blame the people in this case.
Actually India has the 2nd largest arable land in the world, and more than China.

Of course the people are not to blame.
But its obnoxious that Indians are not ashamed of rejoicing at others misfortune and award medals to barbaric soldiers who drive jeeps with Kashmiri people tied to the front.

It is advisable to move away from eating rodents and bats as we may not know what deadly viruses they harbor.
If the world Superpower US did not know what virus was killing their people misclassified as death from vaping, how many people died in India of unknown causes?

In 2020, it is shameful that any government still have starving population without toilets but boasting about having deadly modern weapons and sending a USELESS PROBE to Mars.
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But its obnoxious that Indians are not ashamed of rejoicing at others misfortune and award medals to barbaric soldiers who drive jeeps with Kashmiri people tied to the front.
Because most Indians in PDF do not make a lot. They need to go online and try and find stories of other nations to make themselves feel good. Unfortunately for them most of these bad news stories are actually magnified 100x of how bad it is. But when they are poor they can't afford Melatonin so these stories make them sleep better at night.
 
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I didn't know about that.

It was a super hyped up airlift project which was designed to "bypass and isolate Pakistan" by stopping Afghan imports from Pakistan. In reality though it turned out to be very expensive and the goods (vegetables, fruits, wheat etc) were in very poor condition upon arrival so it fizzled out.

There may be more projects, but Im only aware of the ones that directly relate to Pakistan or are featured on this forum tbf.

Yeah, many Indians don't find such things ridiculous but such disparities are to be found in Pakistan too.

Actually wealth distribution is leagues better in Pakistan than it is in India. IK's govt is focused on decreasing food scarcity and increasing public housing (aka the China route), so within a decade we may see this coeficient decrease even more due to an larger middle class.


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Rafales will mouth feed Indians with the most advanced A2A on Planet. While Spectra EW suite will make sure that no ISI pigeons take a shit on innocent helpless poor citizens of India.
 
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COVID-19 is leaving India hungry in more ways than one
Many are faced with the cruel trade-off between defying the lockdown and catching the virus, or remaining at home and seeing their scanty food stocks dwindle, says an observer.


By Cecilia Tortajada
05 Aug 2020 06:21AM

GENEVA: India is one of the world’s largest food producers.

Ironically, the country is also home to the largest population of hungry people and one-third of the world’s malnourished children. The Global Hunger Index ranks India 102nd among 117 countries.

The course of the COVID-19 pandemic has made these conditions worse. The virus has disrupted global and local food systems, and India’s poor and hungry are being affected worse than ever.

Earlier this year, before the pandemic, India was readying itself to fill any potential trade vacuums caused by countries considering trade restrictions on China that included foodstuffs like rice, onions, potatoes, vegetables, mangoes and honey.

India was also looking to export US$100 billion worth of agricultural products by 2025, tapping into new markets in Latin America and Oceania.

And it was expecting a record harvest of 295.7 million metric tonnes this year.

HOW COVID-19 SHAKES FOOD SYSTEMS

By March, when COVID-19 cases were first detected in the country, the situation took a 180-degree turn. A hasty nationwide lockdown shook the country, including its fragmented and fragile food systems and supply chains.

The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) estimates nearly 40 per cent of the food produced in India is lost or wasted every year due to inefficient supply chains. A lack of cooling and storage facilities in India also means 20 per cent of the entire food production gets lost before it reaches the marketplace.

The pandemic amplified the vulnerabilities of the national food system. It has disrupted local, regional and national supply chains, adding to the impacts of the country’s food waste problem.

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Migrant labourers and their family members from Maharastra protest against the government for the lack of food. (Photo: NARINDER NANU/AFP)

Small growers have had to sell their produce at a loss, if they have been able to sell it at all. Onions are rotting in containers, a consequence of plunging catering services.

The lockdown measures resulted in severe labour shortages, delaying the mid-April wheat harvest by two weeks.

In the potato-producing states of Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, increased demand from returning migrant workers pushed up prices by 9 per cent at the wholesale level and 11 per cent in retail.

Imports of food have also stalled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Partial port operations and the closure of roads and air cargo have hampered the movement of grains across the country.

COVID-19 DISINFORMATION

Disinformation amid the pandemic has now emerged as a wild card.

In big cities, chicken and mutton prices have gone up by 75 per cent. In places like Maharashtra, the sector has taken a US$3 billion blow as messages circulating on social media have spread rumours that COVID-19 can be transmitted through chicken meat.

To make matters worse, rice cultivation has come under threat from a locust invasion, which is causing havoc in East Africa and has already reached neighbouring Pakistan.

Changing weather conditions and local environmental degradation have created the ideal conditions for these voracious pests to breed. In hours, a 1 sq km swarm containing about 40 million locusts eats as much food in one day as 35,000 people. This can devastate local food supplies.

IMPACT ON FARMERS

In a race against time, producers are trying to work through the rice-sowing season amid severe labour shortages. Farmers are stranded, unable to travel to the villages where they would normally be employed for the season.

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Migrant workers and homeless people queue to receive free food during a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ahmedabad, India on May 1, 2020. (Photo: REUTERS/Amit Dave)

These logistical constraints and partial lockdowns hampering workers’ movement have increased the pressures on already stretched food markets.

For these workers, the pandemic and the government response have shaken their food production and access to income. People working in the informal sector account for 90 per cent of India’s labour force.

Without the prospect of earning a steady income, let alone save for uncertain times, it was clear the measures to contain the health emergency would affect those in agriculture, construction and services the hardest.

As people have lost their jobs and meagre incomes, food insecurity has skyrocketed, and nutrition security worsened among the already vulnerable. Close to 38,000 relief camps are providing basic meals to 16 million people every day in India during this pandemic.

Many people were faced with the cruel trade-off between defying the lockdown and catching the virus or remaining at home and seeing their scanty food stocks dwindle.

For most, however, the more tangible dilemma was between starving in the city or continuing to be malnourished in their home villages.
Indian people know hunger well. Some 196 million people are undernourished, and malnutrition is the top cause of death and disability. It is clear that food security remains a serious challenge.

Some regional initiatives have aimed to temporarily alleviate the situation.

In Mumbai, the newly founded Hunger Collective, a collaborative movement to help people secure their basic needs during the crisis, is distributing food rations to those in need.

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People line up in the Indian city of Hyderabad to receive free food distributed by a Hindu group during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown. (Photo: AFP/NOAH SEELAM)

Organisations focused on data and information communication technology, like Impactree, CI Metrices and EDUCO, have joined forces to track migrant workers stranded in Mumbai. These groups send this information to NGOs distributing food in the communities where these labourers are located.

The collective has donated personal protective equipment, or PPE, to health workers. It also raised funds to secure safe train passage to the state of Tamil Nadu after 7,000 migrant workers were stranded in the state of Maharashtra.

The extent of this civil society mobilisation, however, cannot provide a safety net for the 60 to 80 million workers who migrate between states. This requires a government-led effort of Indian proportions.

LESSONS FROM INDIA

COVID-19 is posing unprecedented challenges for governments, businesses and individuals all over the world.

For the world’s biggest democracy and the largest population of hungry people, current local and national economic and social assistance measures are a good start.

This is, however, only a small part of a long journey to establish broad, inclusive and equal livelihoods and food systems that can start closing the caloric and nutrient gap for the poor. This truism holds for all countries, regardless of GDP levels.

The situation in India has been a wake-up call on the need to reconfigure food systems and the millions of livelihoods and lives depending on them.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...-poor-hunger-food-security-nutrition-12988974


I don't think these hungry Indians have anythng to do with PDF Indians. They are living in two parallel universes in India.
 
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Once again, your attempts at propaganda and spin can only work on the Chinese. The quote you submitted is from the same article.

Anyone with a basic comprehension of the English language can clearly see that the Chinese media was taken back because CHINA's PREMIER Premier Li Keqiang contradicted what the NBS had previously reported i.e The Chinese Premier's statement showed the NBS statement was fake. Which does not surprise any of us outside of China

At the close of China’s 2020 Two Sessions congressional meeting on 28 May Li said at a press conference that “600 million people have monthly incomes of just 1000 yuan” (approx. USD$140.6).

Beijing and Shenzhen don't make up all of China. 1.4 billion people don't live in just two cities. This seems yet another attempt at spin and propaganda. Beijing news is a state media propaganda news. Please take care of your 600M people making less than 140 dollars/month, instead of spending money on scamming schemes for other countries.
Which part you don't understand? The figure comes from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), all Chinese are also talk about this shocking number all across the Chinese media, it's disposable income, you are just in denial mode.

"The data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) indicates that China's per capita disposable income was 30,733 yuan per year, or 2,561 yuan per month.Jun 3, 2020"
根据国家统计局住户抽样调查数据,2019年收入最低的20%家庭的年人均可支配收入为7380元,月人均可支配收入为615元;收入最低的40%家庭的年人均可支配收入为11579元,月人均可支配收入为965元这表明我国确实有40%以上的人群,其平均月可支配收入在1000元左右。这也是我们社会中的低收入人群。
 
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That was the exact thing I wanted to say after reading the OP. India is the second-largest importer of weapons and other military systems. I wish that the same way that the Indian Establishment pampers the military, the same pampering is done for the civilians.
You need to make difference here for Military spending. Indian is not spending money to attack other countries. It is just spending to defend itself. Do you know what happens when foreign forces occupies India. Condition of poor will be much worse. Look at iraq/afghanistan. We have 1000yrs of history.
 
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Which part you don't understand? The figure comes from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), all Chinese are also talk about this shocking number all across the Chinese media, it's disposable income, you are just in denial mode.

"The data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) indicates that China's per capita disposable income was 30,733 yuan per year, or 2,561 yuan per month.Jun 3, 2020"
根据国家统计局住户抽样调查数据,2019年收入最低的20%家庭的年人均可支配收入为7380元,月人均可支配收入为615元;收入最低的40%家庭的年人均可支配收入为11579元,月人均可支配收入为965元这表明我国确实有40%以上的人群,其平均月可支配收入在1000元左右。这也是我们社会中的低收入人群。

Propaganda and spin to make some bureaucratic agency in China have more weight over Li Keqiang statements only works on the Chinese.

Premier Li Keqiang, is the current Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. and China's head of government, as well as one of the leading figures behind China's Financial and Economic Affairs, Foreign Affairs, National Security and Deepening Reformsonly, work on the Chinese.

He outranks any bureaucratic agency in China. He directly contradicted your NBS disposable income claim by saying it was a Monthly Income.

Here's further proof he was right. Nobody has gone back and corrected him, nor has he himself come out and changed it to disposable. Now, you are free to submit pics on how beautiful the people working at NBS look.
 
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China has more people than India yet everyone is well fed and very child is being well taken care.
Blame China for not having that beautiful democracy.
china is communist we are democracy , here in my country you can not force everyone to do work then eat , a section of population eats without doing anything , we can not force our people to have one child only .
in china you can send them to camps .
this is the difference.
 
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china is communist we are democracy , here in my country you can not force everyone to do work then eat , a section of population eats without doing anything , we can not force our people to have on child only .
in china you can send them to camps .
this is the difference.
In India you are already in a camp, poverty camp, with the world largest hungry population and half of your children being stunt.
 
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In India you are already in a camp, poverty camp, with the world largest hungry population and half of your children being stunt.
lol they are better than in any concentration camp like you keep your citizens.
 
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yanay kay, pehlay to tha hi bhukka nanga hindustan, ab bimaar maryal hindustan bhi ban gaya!:lol:
 
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lol they are better than in any concentration camp like you keep your citizens.
SURE, BETTER TO STARVE and have SMALLER BRAINS.
No wonder so many idiots in this forum celebrate after having their ace fighter pilot shot down and captured.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...brains-reveals-study/articleshow/71798234.cms
Indians have smaller brains, reveals study
The study has revealed that the Indian brain, on an average, is smaller in height, width and volume when compared to Western and other Eastern populations.
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