The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has launched Heart Attack Rewind, a mass media campaign calling for the elimination of industrially-produced trans fat in the food supply.
The 30-second public service announcement (PSA) – the first mass media campaign of its kind – will support FSSAI’s global target of eliminating trans fat […]
Technology on farms is possible only with innovation and policy support in India. The country is witnessing uberisation on farms, with miniaturisation of equipment to sow and irrigate agricultural lands.
This was stated by Ashok Gulati, Indian agricultural economist and former chairman, Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) at the Bangalore Technology Summit, where […]
As a result of the various schemes operationalised by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), Government of India, food processing and preservation capacities have increased by 351 per cent, cold chain and cold storage capacities have gone up by 720 per cent, five lakh jobs have been created and infrastructure has been created […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), in a recent development, has gazette notified the regulation on laboratories, giving a structure to the food lab ecosystem in the country by detailing out recognition and notification of laboratories. Eventually, the new norms will help improve quality of food testing.
The comprehensive regulations will replace […]
Pomegranate farmers in the state of Maharashtra are facing a serious crunch due to drought impact on over 50 per cent of the plantation. This was stated by Prabhakar Chandane, president, All India Pomegranate Growers’ Federation.
Exports of the fruit to the European Union (EU) commence from December and continue till March, but according to […]
The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) demanded a complete overhaul of retail trade of India in a communication sent to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The body listed some of the core and critical issues, including the need for an immediate e-commerce policy; incentives and encouragement to digital payments; accidental insurance of traders, a […]
The Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India is aiming at exponential growth in the milk production in the country. Agriculture and farmers’ welfare minister Radha Mohan Singh said that his ministry was aiming at 250 million tonne of milk production in the country by 2022.
He added that the government had taken several initiatives in […]
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology, and the University of Hohenheim have developed a new methodical approach that allows for the faster identification of flavour-giving protein fragments in foods such as cheese or yoghurt, thus optimising production processes.
The taste of fermented foods, such as cheese, yoghurt, […]
Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), in association with PHDCCI, recently made a prognosis, stating that the exports of Indian grapes to China are likely to increase by 200 per cent, both in quantity and value terms, by 2020. Currently, the estimated exports of Indian grapes to China are pegged at 600 […]
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the country’s apex food regulator, announced the Eat Right Awards and Eat Right Creativity Challenge recently, giving the Eat Right India movement a further boost, following the Swasth Bharat Yatra.
The Swasth Bharat Yatra, expected to cover 18,000km on six different tracks, has already generated a […]