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Future Food Asia Award Selects 2018 Finalists for the US$100,000 Prize

Future Food Asia Award Selects 2018 Finalists for the US$100,000 Prize

Future Food Asia announced that 10 start-ups have been selected as the 2018 finalists and will join the award event on May 23rd in Singapore to showcase their solutions and technologies for a chance to

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Vermont Coffee to utilise 100% renewable energy

Vermont Coffee to utilise 100% renewable energy

US-based Vermont Coffee Company has announced that its coffee roasting facility in Middlebury, Vermont is now powered by 100 per cent renewable energy, and the company claims it is the first US coffee roaster to

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Raw Pressery raises $9.55M funding

Raw Pressery raises $9.55M funding

Mumbai-based organic juice startup Raw Pressery has secured $9.55 million (Rs 65 Cr) in funding from its existing investors such as Sequoia Capital, Saama Capital and DSG Consumer Partners.   With this funding, the startup plans to

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Algaia receives 4 M euros boost

Algaia receives 4 M euros boost

Algaia, S.A., will accelerate development and install a new specialty seaweed extract production unit in its Lannilis (Brittany-France) manufacturing facility dedicated to specialty algae extracts. The company’s main shareholder, Maabarot Products Ltd., infused Algaia with

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New initiative benchmarks seed companies

New initiative benchmarks seed companies

The Access to Seeds Index, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the government of the Netherlands, aims to encourage seed companies to step up their efforts to support smallholder farmer

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Polish designer creates edible food packaging

Polish designer creates edible food packaging

Rosa Janusz, a Polish designer has created an alternative to plastic food packaging as part of her graduate project at the School of Form in Poznan, Poland. Called Scoby, the material is organic and is

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Maharashtra FDA commissioner plans to introduce calorie count in restaurants

Maharashtra FDA commissioner plans to introduce calorie count in restaurants

 In a series of meetings held internally, the FDA has decided that restaurants must start mentioning the calorie count of each item mentioned on the menu. The brainchild of FDA commissioner Pallavi Darade, the plan

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To reduce arsenic in rice soak seeds in selenium

To reduce arsenic in rice soak seeds in selenium

The presence of arsenic traces in rice is a major problem in several parts of the country. Now scientists have found that soaking rice seeds in selenium can mitigate adverse effects on rice plants grown

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KP Snacks to acquire Tyrrells from The Hershey Company

KP Snacks to acquire Tyrrells from The Hershey Company

Intersnack Group subsidiary KP Snacks has agreed a deal to acquire premium snacks brand Tyrells from The Hershey Company for an undisclosed sum.   KP Snacks will acquire Tyrrells’s head office and two manufacturing sites

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Selling price of PDS grains will remain unchanged for 1 more year

Selling price of PDS grains will remain unchanged for 1 more year

Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said that the government has decided not to hike prices of foodgrains sold via public distribution system (PDS) for one more year.   Foodgrains via ration shops are supplied at