The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
Amul, the country’s largest dairy brand, is likely to benefit the most from Russia’s decision to lift restrictions on the import of milk, cheese and other dairy products from India. Russia had to open its market to countries like India as it had imposed a one-year ban, in August, on …
This NSSO survey report on nutritional intake covering - calorie, protein and fat reveals rising consumption of fat across the rural and urban India. Read this report, related reports, documents and more...
Vitamin D fortification of non–cow's milk beverages is voluntary in North America. The effect of consuming non–cow's milk beverages on serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in children is unclear. We studied the association between non–cow's milk consumption and 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in healthy preschool-aged children. We also explored whether cow's milk …
Food inflation in India has remained stubborn in recent years. A number of proximate factors such as increasing demand particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising agricultural cost of production, changing consumption pattern favoring protein items, increases in minimum support prices (MSPs) and droughts in certain years are believed to …
In a unique initiative, almost 6,000 progressive dairy farmers in Punjab will come together to set up their own hi-end milk plant at Ludhiana for processing milk and retailing it. The state-of-art milk plant will be set up at an estimated cost of Rs 10 crore. These dairy farmers say …
The present report on “Level and Pattern of Household Consumer Expenditure in Delhi” is brought out by this Directorate on the basis of sample survey conducted under the NSS 68th Round (July 2011 – June 2012). This report contains valuable data on consumption levels and pattern of households in Delhi. …
The Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it had set new safety standards for infant formula. The rules require manufacturers to screen products for salmonella, which can cause fever and diarrhea, and cronobacter, a potentially lethal germ that thrives in very dry places, like powdered milk and baby formula. …
Weather conditions in various countries and political tensions in the Black Sea region have made food markets more volatile, FAO reports in the new Food Outlook. In its first major forecast for 2014, FAO puts cereal production at 2 458 million tonnes (including milled rice), down some 2.4 percent from …
This report presents the estimates pertaining to various facets of household consumer expenditure at National and State levels. The report not only gives rural and urban averages of Monthly Per Capita Expenditure (MPCE) at State/UT and National level but also provides insights into the differences in MPCE within the rural …
The Supreme Court today asked the states to give up their lenient attitude towards those responsible for adulteration of milk and milk products with hazardous synthetic substances as the issue involved the health of the entire population. Lamenting that most of the states were prosecuting the offenders under laws merely …
We take care of the cow and the cow takes care of us,” says Marayal, a farmer in Thalavady, Tamil Nadu. Her two cows produce 6 to 10 litres of milk a day, which she sells for 30-40 cents per litre. Across India, there are millions of backyard dairy farmers …
Looking at the increase in sale of dry fruits ahead of Diwali, the health department officials inspected shops in the Walled City on Wednesday evening for the quality of dry fruits being sold. This inspection is to ensure that the shopkeepers are selling the right quality of dry fruits so …
Sri Lanka's Cabinet of ministers has approved a series of measures to ensure the safety of the consumer food imported to the country following the report submitted by the cabinet sub-committee appointed to probe the contamination of imported milk food. The Cabinet at its meeting held on August 15 appointed …
Vadodara: The story of home grown Amul, which has turned India into world’s largest milk producer, will be in focus at the forthcoming USA India Business Summit (UIBS) which is being held at Georgia Tech, Atlanta. Amul Dairy’s managing director Rahul Kumar has been invited to showcase Amul model of …
Rapid expansion to be the organisation's mantra for 2013-14, says Chairman Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which markets the famed ‘Amul’ brand of milk and milk products, aims to get into 700 small towns for the first time this financial year. And, double its export. Vipul Chaudhary, chairman of …
Top 5% of the population had an MPCE of Rs 4,481 in rural areas and Rs 10,282 in urban areas Poorest of poor in the country survive on barely Rs 17 per day in villages and Rs 23 a day in cities, as per the latest data released by the …
The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) conducts nationwide household consumer expenditure surveys at regular intervals as part of its “rounds”, each round normally of a year’s duration. The NSS surveys are conducted through household interviews from a random sample of households selected through a scientific design and cover practically the …
Homegrown Amul brand is all set to touch the US $ 4 billion mark. The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) that markets country’s largest FMCG brand has clocked a provisional sales revenue of Rs 13,750 crore (US $ 2.55 billion) which is 18 percent more compared to last financial …
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Friday said there is a need to have a single milk brand to improve marketing of milk and its products in the Maharashtra, on the lines of Gujarat's Amul. He said the state lagged behind Gujarat in terms of marketing of milk. "In Gujarat, all …
