Comments on: Food for all

By: Dr.Ali

Dr.Ali — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:06:34 +0000

As an agricultural economist, I conducted research on fertilizer adoption in NWFP, Pakistan. My results showed that farmers still face obstacles in obtaining necessary inputs that will increase yields. There are also barriers in obtaining credit from formal sources, such as the corrupt Agricultural Bank in Islamabad, PK. May Allah (swt) have mercy on this country.

By: Tamilselvan

Tamilselvan — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:57:47 +0000

Gandhi said ” There is enough food for human need but not enough for human greed”. Greed is the main cause. No child or human should go hungry in the world and there is no need for it either but lack of distribution and greed is holding it

By: Ali

Ali — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:22:47 +0000

The article is great but offer no solutions such as ” If women’s lives are to improve, it is crucial and essential to institute land reforms with women’s access to land and resources.”
So exactly how do suggest it is carried out and implemented? Education of the nation is the key and I mean quality education not the educated lot who stand at each corner of the campus staring and commenting at every girl that pass by.

By: Hashim

Hashim — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:47:31 +0000

Well written article – As it focuses on poor people, I dont think any one highups will pay any attention.

By: saju

saju — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:12:00 +0000

It is true for any developing nation story, effective national collection at harvest with subsidy to farmer, and dynamic distrubution system to be established by administration, in Main land India million tonns of grains collected by subsidy system damaged due to un effective manipulation of distrubution to common man, however Pak could follow with more taking care of her citizen from hungry, basic amanities are more religiestic when one stand in between hunger and reality. Power eager politican are having lavish life.

By: REHAN

REHAN — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:11:16 +0000

Why don’t the developed countries who cap food production to stabilise food prices just send the excess food that is stored or even destroyed to developing countries with food shortage and poverty.

By: raika45

raika45 — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:21:08 +0000

Something does not gel here. Here are a number of columnists writing a variety of columns regarding the food problem in your country yet I read no comment by you people. Why?. Inadequate food distribution within your country is of prime consideration.How is it you can export millions of tons of wheat , rice and sugar and yet a large number of your people go hungry?You are not complaining because it does not involve you? Taking into consideration that a large percentage in the rural areas do not know what the internet is.So they have no idea that the so called “surplus” food is exported.You know something Pakistanis? You are an enigma which I doubt anyone can understand.India is the same. Thousands of tons of food grain rotted due to the bumper harvest in Punjab. Yet thousands of it’s poor people had no or little food.

By: Fuzail Z. Ahmad

Fuzail Z. Ahmad — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:04:12 +0000

There is very little in this article to make it an interesting read. Dawn’s caliber/quality demands that articles are interesting to read and not monotonous generalizations. In the first paragraph, the writer must know that inflation is falling for quite sometime now. Malnutrition is one thing and going hungry is another. Most importantly, there is no data in this article. Tables and charts make it interesting.

By: khanm

khanm — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 07:22:53 +0000

The only choice in front of Pakistani nation is. Either be wonderful or become wonder why.