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  • ‘Sustainable food production, rational fertiliser use leads to food security’

    ISLAMABAD: Pakistan can achieve food security through sustainable food production, food experts at a lecture titled ‘Food Security and Need for Good Agricultural Practices in Crop Production’ said on Monday...

    “Food security is one of the bigger challenges facing the world today,” Charge d’ Affaires at the Embassy of the Netherlands Renate Pors said, adding that though the Netherlands was a small country, it focuses on achieving food...

  • Punjab Food Authority to take steps for provision of quality food items

    RAWALPINDI: Punjab Food Authority (PFA) will declare Rawalpindi as the model city for food safety and measures will be taken so people can get quality food items in the market...

    Talking to Dawn, PFA Chairman Umer Tanveer Butt said the provincial food authority was taking measures for provision of quality food to people including milk, meat and other edibles in the open market...

  • World food prices hit 10-year peak: UN food agency

    World food prices rose for a second consecutive month in September to reach a 10-year peak, driven by gains for cereals and vegetable oils, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday...

    The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) also projected record global cereal production in 2021, but said this would be outpaced by forecast consumption...

  • City diary: Food buffs facing ‘dine-out dilemma’

    The ongoing campaign against unhygienic food and meat has prompted people to either avoid eating out or look for some alternative menu such as vegetables and lentils...

    Restaurants and food outlets in the provincial metropolis are witnessing a considerable decrease in the number of guests...

  • Islamabad — not a city for cheap food

    ISLAMABAD: While the residents of the federal capital enjoy greener environment, better road network and other facilities than many other parts of the country but they also pay around 30 to 40 percent more for food items than those living elsewhere...

    Over the last decade, the capital has become Pakistan’s most expensive city, forcing a number of people out of the capital into the rural areas and Rawalpindi...

  • Rawalpindi food outlet owners, city officials meet today

    RAWALPINDI: Against the backdrop of the Punjab government’s campaign against unhygienic food outlets, the business leaders have arranged a meeting of their (food outlets) owners and the City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) officials at the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) on Tuesday...

    The district coordination officer (DCO), Sajid Zafar Dall, assistant commissioner, Cantonment, Khalid Goraya and assistant...

  • Beijing tests food, parcel couriers for coronavirus as city checks widen

    Officials in Beijing are carrying out nucleic acid tests on all food and parcel delivery personnel as they ramp up efforts to rein in an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the Chinese capital, state-backed Beijing News reported on Saturday...

    Officials have been expanding testing across the city of 20 million since a cluster of new infections linked to a food wholesale market erupted just over a week ago...

  • Karachi man loses life in cosmetic factory fire

    A man lost his life as a fire broke out following a blast at a cosmetic factory's chemical storage facility off Shahrah-e-Faisal, police said on Wednesday...

    Factory employee Salman Sarwar died due to severe burn injuries, while two other staff members received minor burns, a spokesperson from Civil Hospital's burn ward told DawnNews...

  • Factory sealed in Karachi as four die of inhaling toxic fumes

    Police on Thursday evening sealed a chemical factory in Bin Qasim area of Karachi after four workers died of inhaling toxic fumes in an underground tank of the industrial unit, said Malir SSP Rao Anwar...

    Rao Anwar said that efforts were underway to detain the owner of the factory who lives in Gulshan-i-Iqbal...

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