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She also worked as the on-air business / markets correspondent at CNBC Asia, Hong Kong, Television
Broadcasts Ltd., Hong Kong and BBC World TV, Hong Kong. Jane is a graduate of the National University
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India may become world’s top beef exporter by 2013: USDA
India is likely to become the world’s largest beef (buffalo meat) exporter by 2013 as there is consistent
demand from price sensitive importers, primarily in Southeast Asia, West Asia and Africa, USDA has said.
“Given India’s explosive export growth, India is likely to become the world’s largest beef (buffalo meat)
exporter by 2013, if not sooner,” United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in its latest
report.
Export growth is largely on account of consistent demand from price sensitive importers, primarily in
Vietnam and Southeast Asia, West Asia and Africa. As a result, the number of export production units is
increasing to meet growing export demand for low-cost Indian buffalo meat, it added.
According to USDA, India’s export of buffalo meat is estimated to rise 25 per cent to 1.52 million tons in
2012 from 1.22 million tons in 2011. However, the dreaded Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in cattle
could pose problems in the country’s March towards the world’s leading buffalo meat supplier, USDA
said. “While there are rumours of new market openings in Eastern Europe and Indonesia, no known
trade has yet occurred in these regions and India’s FMD status makes this seem unlikely,” it added.
Indian exporters are operating voluntary vaccination programs to combat FMD and the government of
India has launched Rs. 4,000 crore programme to tackle the disease. While these programs are positive
steps, the reality of FMD remains a significant hurdle for expanding market access, USDA said.
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California University in talks with Indian nursing colleges to offset shortage of nurses
In an effort to offset the growing shortage of nursing students in India, the California State University
(CSU) is in talks with nursing colleges in country to help hospitals deliver efficient healthcare services.
In this regard, it is in a discussion with the Bengaluru-based Dayananda Sagar Institutions and is looking
to partner with it and other institutions. India is facing a serious paucity of nursing staff across all
specialties of healthcare which is estimated at 50 per cent. With a growing ageing population, rise in
critical care and increase in accident-trauma cases, the shortage of nurses is a bane and is detrimental to
the growth of healthcare sector.
“We would help use technology to deliver efficient healthcare system despite the existing nurses
shortage for education exchange programme and to conduct collaborative research, said Dr. Marilyn
Stonar, associate professor and international coordinator of Nursing, California State University, San
Bernardino.
US government has stipulated on average two nurses for every patient in the Intensive Care Units, about
four to five nurses for every patient during daytime and six nurses for every patient during night time.
Nurses and patients in the US are growing old together. Of the 250,000 nurses who serve in the US, a
third of them are on the verge of retirement. This is where healthcare providers need to advocate the
use of technology to deliver efficient healthcare system, said Dr. Stonar who was here in connection
with an international conference on ‘Nursing education & training in a global context’ under the aegis of
Dayananda Sagar Institutions.