UPL Limited to build a productive rice value chain in IndiaUPL is engaging rice farmers through its digital advisory services company, “Adarsh Kisan Services” which provides regular agronomic suppor...
Nestle personalises food supply for pilots of solar-powered aircraft Impulse 2The diet pattern designed for the duo comprises small and frequent meals that is recommended for high altitude conditions.
270 Indian firms, trade bodies to attend food fest in DubaiIndia has actively and regularly participated in Gulfood and this year is no exception, a statement from the Indian consulate in Dubai said.
Amira group ties up with 7,500 farmers for organic cropsAmira group said it has tied up with 7,500 farmer families to cultivate 12K hectares of land for multiple organic crops, to produce organic...
Amira rice ties up with Snapdeal for e-retailingThe company, an Indian subsidiary of the NYSE-listed Amira Nature Foods Ltd, is the first premium packaged basmati rice brand to be availab...
Rice export scam: Govt blocks CBI probe, 20 babus go scot-freeGovernment has refused permission to CBI to probe senior officials allegedly involved in rice export scam.
- Call for minimum farmgate price for Pusa 1121 rice
Punjab and Haryana governments seek to protect farmers from price fluctuations
- Govt stalls key liberalisation proposals
Last week, food minister Sharad Pawar, thus far an aggressively prime mover of the sugar decontrol proposal, dropped a bombshell by announc...
- Amira Foods bags $45mn order from Bangladesh
Since India does not allow export of non-basmati rice, the company would source them from countries like Vietnam, Thailand and Pakistan to ...
- Basmati may get 1-cr ad boost during CWG
Basmati rice, among India’s best recognised exports worldwide, will get a rupees one crore adspend during the Commonwealth Games.
- Amira Foods ties up with Dubai chain
Basmati major Amira Foods (India) Ltd has tied up for distribution of its products in West Asia with the well-known Dubai-based retail chai...
- Indian hunger for new technology fuels foreign acquisitions
The pursuit of technology is driving the growing number of foreign acquisitions by Indian firms as much as the search for new markets, top ...
- Amira Foods launches Amira Pure Basmati
Amira Foods (India) Ltd, leading basmati rice retailer of India, has launched Amira Pure Basmati
- Basmati exports slow down worries policy makers
Basmati exports to Iran appear to have slowed down on the back of the recent controversy over reports that said that toxic metal traces (ar...
- Starched Diplomacy: Lid on rice exports may be partially lifted
India may partly lift the ban on rice exports in the guise of commercial diplomacy.
- Only states can set up markets now
All states in the country are set to amend their laws to make contract farming on a big scale easier for corporates.
- Price panel for basmati to act as cartel
NEW DELHI: The newly-launched price advisory committee for basmati is likely to operate as thinly-disguised cartel under government aegis a...