Wednesday, 1 April 2026
The two-day event was aimed at bringing all the stakeholders of the food processing sector with special focus on millets, on a common platform. In the wake of the United…
Regulatory standards for Basmati rice will be enforced from 1st August 2023 For the first time in the country, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has specified…
Beer accounts for a third of the Indian alcoholic beverages market, in volume terms. Euromonitor projects the total volume of beer will increase at a 6 per cent CAGR to…
Rajasthan State Agriculture Marketing Board aspires to set up hundred Millet Processing units in the state, and a subsidy up to 50 lahks will be provided to each of such units. On…
As part of the additional financing, the project will support the procurement and distribution of emergency seeds, fertilisers and small-scale machinery to vulnerable farmers. The World Bank’s Board of Executive…
Product to be manufactured in accordance with FSSAI guidelines for rice fortification. Fermenta Biotech Limited (‘Fermenta’) has commissioned a new facility to manufacture Fortified Rice Kernel (‘FRK’) located in Pennepalli,…
Farmers in India sow 620.62 lakh hectares of Rabi Crops. Union farm ministry data showed that farmers in India have sown rabi crops across 620.62 lakh hectares as of now,…
NFSM-Nutri Cereals is being implemented in 212 districts of 14 states. The Union Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in a written reply…
If FPOs are successful in making farmers wealthy and debt-free, a single farmer will not commit suicide in Vidarbha. At a recent workshop organised for FPOs in Vidarbha at the…
Millets market set to grow from its current market value of more than $9 billion to over $12 billion by 2025 To promote shipment of nutri-cereals, the Ministry of Commerce…
As a temporary measure, in September, 2022, India banned export of broken rice and imposed a 20 per cent export duty on non-Basmati rice except for parboiled rice to boost…
At the recently held national conference ‘Expansion of Horticulture Value Chain in India’ held at Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management in Pune, Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister for…
The absolute highest increase in MSP has been approved for lentil (Masur) at Rs 500 per quintal followed by rapeseed and mustard at Rs 400 per quintal. The Cabinet Committee…
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited in New Delhi to boost the…
