India has earned more than Rs 18,000 crore foreign exchange per year from the export of basmati rice, especially from the variety 1121 developed by the country’s top agri-institute ICAR. The institute is playing an
The PepsiCo Foundation has recently announced a $ 4.26 million grant to an international non-profit organisation WaterAid to provide safe water access to communities in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala by December 2020. As
The ministry of food processing industries (MoFPI) with the objective of Reducing the distance between Farm & Fork, providing Financial assistance to set up Integrated Cold Chain Projects UNDER PRADHAN MANTRI KISAN SAMPADA YOJANA(PMKSY). MoFPI
The Faridabad-based Jiva Ayurveda Clinic & Panchakarma Center has become Haryana’s first Panchakarma clinic to get accreditation from the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH). The prestigious, nationally recognized accreditation, currently held by
Sri Lanka is considering linking its considerable small and medium enterprises (SME) base to global markets through the highly active food processing industry sub-sector. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has launched many projects
Food Standards and Safety Authority of India (FSSAI) has blown a trumpet to back the efforts of Health Department to combat dengue. In its drive to prevent the spreading of deadly disease, officials of FSSAI
In the last few months there has been a lot of focus on potential exaggerated or misleading or unproven claims made on a number of products which include foods and products in food format or
The terms Nutrition and Pharmaceuticals together denotes Neutraceuticals. These are biological therapies for well-being. The philosophy of this therapy focuses mainly on prevention. Greek physician Hippocrates (known as the father of medicine) said “let food
As we are moving towards modernised era, our food is losing some traditional ways which used to serve the nutritional needs. Influence of working culture, changing lifestyle and reducing time to indulge in quality cooking
Agilent Technologies has announced that it will host the ‘Total Agilent Experience’ (TAE) symposium for the first time in Mumbai, on June 6-7, 2017. More than 500 scientists and researchers from commercial, scientific and research