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Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture and food processing

Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture and food processing

A central task force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) has suggested creating a National Artificial Intelligence Mission (N-AIM) that will serve as a nodal agency for coordinating AI related activities in the country. The report of

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AgriTech Summit explores ways to address challenges

AgriTech Summit explores ways to address challenges

The Department of Agriculture and Department of Innovation & Technology, recently presented the highly anticipated, “TECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURE" at Hotel Shangri La, Bengaluru. Maheshwar Rao, Secretary to Department of Agriculture and Gaurav Gupta, Principal Secretary

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Government of Maharashtra and Nestlé India collaborates

Government of Maharashtra and Nestlé India collaborates

Government of Maharashtra in collaboration with National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) launch Project ‘Serve Safe Food’.   Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister of Maharashtra today inaugurated Project ‘Serve Safe Food’   It is a program

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Organic food norms to increase reliability

Organic food norms to increase reliability

India’s organic food industry will get a credibility boost from July 2018, when standards and certification norms will come into operation. It will help to bridge a trust deficit for its produce among foreign buyers,

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FSSAI requests food companies to submit their food recall plans

FSSAI requests food companies to submit their food recall plans

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has directed the top 200 food companies in the country to submit their food recall plans, as part of its efforts to implement food recall guidelines.

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Food enterprises may have to change printing norms

Food enterprises may have to change printing norms

Packaged food companies in India may soon have to change their printing and packaging norms due to safety issues with certain chemicals currently being used to print labels and packages. The Bureau of Indian Standards

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FSSAI to focus on protein concentrates and colostrum

FSSAI to focus on protein concentrates and colostrum

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has laid out standards for milk protein concentrates, whey protein concentrates and colostrum products in the Food Safety and Standards Regulations (FSSR), 2011, and related food

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FSSAI decides guidelines to control doping in sports

FSSAI decides guidelines to control doping in sports

The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Tuesday finalized guidelines to curb the use of prohibited performance enhancing substances in nutritional supplements by sports professionals. The country’s food regulator will now regulate

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The tourism department and LDA to start food kiosks in Lucknow

The tourism department and LDA to start food kiosks in Lucknow

For visitors In Janeshwar Mishra Park (JMP),Gomtinagar,Lucknow  new food kiosks will be functioning soon. Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) has given a contract to UP tourism department to run food kiosks inside the park. The kiosks

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DRDO, CFTRI tie up to address malnutrition

DRDO, CFTRI tie up to address malnutrition

Bihar government has roped in Defence Research and Development Organisation’s Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL) and Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) to provide ready-to-eat food through anganwadis, to fight diseases caused by acute malnutrition.