"The cold took their lives," he said listlessly, soon after reaching Herat, drawn here by a lodestone of food no more bountiful than a monthly ration of wheat flour.
Eligibility categories are used to determine how much a person can receive, and the program distributes monthly bags of wheat or rice, along with cooking fuel, to millions of people.
To overcome this, a simple external monitoring system was adopted that collects 3 indicators (monthly production of wheat flour, number of boxes of premix used, and iron concentration in a flour sample) that can be easily analyzed and used to make programmatic decisions by a low-resource regulatory agency.
We used international monthly prices 3 months before planting of wheat in Kazakhstan in our wheat acreage response model.
Ganga Devi, a part-time domestic worker, who was buying her monthly supply of 25 kilograms of wheat, listened intently to Mr. Abrol as he stressed the importance of the rations for the underprivileged.
Such financial assets offer steady, predictable returns with little risk or loss of principal, unlike the ups and downs of a commodity like wheat or corn, where monthly or annual cash flows is linked to weather and global demand.
This monthly report examines the U.S. and global wheat industry.
The results showed that converting bioenergy crops (i.e. rape and maize) to winter wheat (S5) reduced the average monthly nitrate-N loads of between 27 and 53 % compared to baseline predictions (Fig. 11a).
Corn futures posted modest losses on the Chicago Board of Trade ahead of the monthly Agriculture Department report while soybean prices rose and wheat finished narrowly mixed.
The scheme aims to reach 800m of India's 1.2 billion people, giving each a monthly dole of 5 kilos of rice or wheat, at a nominal price.
