Inside BENEO’s new pulse plant: pioneering sustainable protein from faba beans
The government had in 2016 allowed overseas retailers to sell food products manufactured locally but they lobbied to be allowed to carry more items of daily use in order to make such outlets more viable.
The food regulator, FSSAI has now proposed a set of measures, including tax, strict labelling norms and ban on their advertisements on children’s shows, to check the consumption of food products high on fat, sugar
Parry Nutraceuticals, a division of E.I.D Parry, announced that its organic spirulina and chlorella cultivation and processing facility, located in Oonaiyur, Pudukottai District, Tamil Nadu, India, has formally received an Establishment Inspection Report (EIR) after
The two-day National Conference on Agriculture for Kharif Campaign–2017, which concluded in New Delhi recently, was inaugurated by Radha Mohan Singh, minister of agriculture and farmers’ welfare and addressed by Parshottam Rupala and Sudarshan Bhagat,
Minister of State for commerce and industry Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the orientation programme for the establishment of spice farmer producer companies (SFPCs) and buyer-seller meet in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, recently. Organised by Spices Board, it
The Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its approval for extending the validity of the existing Central Order, dated October 27, 2016, in respect of sugar by six months from April
The Parliamentary Committee on Department of Health and Family Affairs has pulled up the health department for underutilisation of funds by the Food Safety Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). “FSSAI was established in 2006. The
Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, has said that the government is working on mechanism to stop adulteration in packaged water. Paswan said that Department of Consumer Affairs has
Food regulator FSSAI has given its approval to sell edible oils in loose through vending machines in West Bengal and the pilot project will start from Kolkata. FSSAI has given permission to a company to
The Centre is encouraging farm mechanisation through different policy interventions, including subsidies for power tillers. A dedicated sub-mission on agricultural mechanisation has been initiated with a focus on spreading farm mechanisation to small and marginal