Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Hrishikesh Joshi / Pune May 06, 2010, 0:50 IST A little over two weeks after European Union (EU) authorities rejected a 52,000-tonne export consignment of Indian grapes worth Rs 300 crore, the issue is yet to be resolved. The grapes are docked at various European ports, after EU authorities said …
ITANAGAR, April 30: The Central Government is more than eager to promote food-processing industry in Arunachal Pradesh, which has immense potential in this sector provided initiatives are taken in right earnest. This was disclosed by Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MOFPI), Amrit Lal Meena today while interacting …
Seema Sindhu / New Delhi March 29, 2010, 0:32 IST The Ministry of Food Processing Industry (MoFPI) plans to hold a meeting with related ministries to reduce duplication of functions. The meeting with the ministries of agriculture, commerce and rural development is expected to take place next week. MoFPI believes …
BHUBANESWAR: Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahay today advised the State Government to lay equal emphasis on food processing industries like it has given to mineral-based industries and incentivise the sector to attract more investment. Addressing a public information campaign on Bharat Nirman, a flagship infrastructure development …
Salman Khursheed has a suggestion for industrial houses keen on setting up steel and power units in Jharkhand but cannot do so due to a number of hurdles
Gargi Parsai This staggering loss has affected India's agri business Sustainable supply chains needed to link farmer to marketing centres MUMBAI: The decline in the farm sector will hit the food and grocery retail sector too. It is estimated that the growth rate in the food and grocery retail sector …
BHUBANESWAR: Industries Minister Raghunath Mohanty has demanded that a wing of the Central Food Technology Research Institute (CFTRI) should be set up here for dissemination of technology information among the prospective entrepreneurs. Addressing a national conference on food processing industries in Delhi today, the Minister announced that the Orissa Government …
Chennai, Sept. 30 A unified law covering the entire gamut of food processing industries is set to take effect this year-end, Mr Ashok Sinha, Secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries, has said. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) will implement the provisions of the Food Safety and …
NEW DELHI: The Centre has decided to formulate a separate policy for the food processing sector to accord commercial orientation to this strain of economic activity. Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahai announced that the process at formulating the new policy would be taken after the current …
New Delhi: The government will help in setting up 350 new food processing units in the next 100 days as part of its efforts to create one crore jobs in the sector by 2015. Announcing this, Minister for Food Processing Industries Subodh Kant Sahai on Wednesday said the government would …
Ramesh Sharma Long way to go: The Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, Mr Subodh Kant Sahay (right), and the Director, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mr V. Prakash, at the 2nd Food Technology Summit in the Capital on Monday.
It happens only in India. The country is the second largest producer of food in the world, yet over 300 million people go without two square meals a day. Ironically, food worth Rs 58,000 crore
AMIT GUPTA Ranchi, March 1: If the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) has its way, you will soon be able to gorge on street food without fear. The civic body is making sincere efforts to get
NEW DELHI: To keep a check on food adulteration and to maintain international food standards for the products being manufactured in the state, the Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries in association with the state government, has decided to set up a fully-automated world class food quality monitoring laboratory in …
NEW DELHI Out of the 45 food parks planned by the Centre in 2004, none of them are fully operational today. The Centre originally planned these parks with private investment to increase the infrastructure for small to medium-scale industries facilitating transportation, storage and sale of their different products. Despite investing …
Bhopal, Sept 6: Minister of State for Food Processing and Horticulture Shri Karan Singh Verma has said that farmers' development can be ensured only through correct pricing for their produce. He was addressing a daylong workshop on the subject 'Food and Security' here today. Shri Verma informed that food parks …
This study initiated by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries covers overall review of existing FPO 1955 and suggests amendments based upon developments and modernization in Fruit and Vegetable Processing Industry. The developments among other include processing, packaging, standards, food additives, microbiological requirements, insecticides and pesticides uses, and their influences …
For the past three decades, more investment has been made for crop technology than for building infrastructure to store and market food products. The recent loan waiver for indebted farmers
