Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The Food Processing Ministry will give priority to farmers, self-help groups and women for providing grant-in-aid in setting up food processing enterprises. It has also identified Bihar, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Jammu and Kashmir for preferential treatment in financial support to set up food processing …
This paper provides an overview of developments in food safety policy in major industrial countries and of economic analysis of this policy. It describes the elements of a risk-based, farm-to-fork food safety system as it is emerging in OECD countries guided by discussions through Codex Alimentarius and traces its roots …
Shaju Philip Rejecting opposition from the Industries Ministry, Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday decided to form a tribunal to assess and realise compensation from Coca Cola for the damage caused by its bottling plant at Plachimada in Palakkad. A committee appointed by the government earlier had recommended formation of the tribunal, …
The early nineties saw a substantial overhauling of the Indian economy through Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), which encompassed a number of measures, viz., liberalisation of export-import policy, drastic lowering of import duties on many products, removal of import restrictions, reduction of investment in the agricultural and industrial sectors so as …
The Agro-Industrial Policy aims at value addition from agricultural produce by induction of modern technology into food processing, encouraging research and development, minimization of wastage across the food processing chain by development of infrastructure for storage, transportation and processing of agro-food produce to fill in the gaps of supply chain …
Abakery in the Russian autonomous republic of Tatarstan has signed a unique agreement with the region’s government. It can now use the picture of the republic’s seat of government, Kazan Kremlin, on its products. The large bakery, which produces the Tatar sweet chak-chak, had been using the image since the …
LUCKNOW: Mango aficionados, farmers and industry bigwigs, chew on this. If minister of food processing industries, Subodh Kant Sahai is referring to India as a future 'World Food Factory', it is not without reason. As the largest suppliers of mango by-products to the rest of the world, there's help at …
The State considers industrial growth as a means to mitigate poverty and unemployment. Industrial development promotes higher capital formation; raises wage incomes to higher levels; and absorbs surplus workforce, bottled up in rural areas, to industry. To realize these benefits and hasten up the socio-economic changes, industrial development is accorded …
JAIPUR: Two spice parks will be set up in Rajasthan in the near future to augment the marketing of its aromatic agriculture produce and promote the spices-related industry in the State. One of them, a Rs.26-crore venture, is scheduled to come up in Jodhpur in March 2011. The second is …
One might want to give up soft drinks to keep ageing at bay. A new research published in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology on April 26 shows that high levels of phosphate in sodas and processed foods accelerate signs of ageing which include chronic kidney diseases, cardiovascular …
New Delhi: In India, food safety and standards are neglected topic despite being directly related to public health. According to a survey conducted by Ficci, almost 30% of the respondents, bulk of whom were from the food processing industry, were unaware that Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA) is mandatory …
DDA plans to develop land under elevated road as public space with many facilities New Delhi: The basin of Barapullah Nullah, one of the biggest stormwater drains in the city, can hardly be described as a source of beauty. All that
BHUBANESWAR: Rice Tech 2010, a three-day event, would bring together a host of agri-researchers, technology providers, rice industry captains and farmers to the City on June 5. This edition of the expo would be the 11th international exhibition on rice processing technology and give an opportunity to the stakeholders to …
