PV Sindhu invests in biofortified staples brand Better NutritionPV Sindhu, Indian badminton player, has injected an undisclosed amount in Better Nutrition, a biofortified staples brand from Greenday that...
03 Jun, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Everyone is interested in millets. But where are the crops?The praiseworthy efforts to make mainstream millets in the food system are in danger of losing steam because of a lack of incentives to att...
03 Mar, 2024, 10.44 AM IST
Pure-veg meat: An export frontier for India to conquerIndia's largest shipment of plant-based meat, including jackfruit-based BBQ Jack, has been sent to the US. The shipment is part of India's ...
28 Jun, 2023, 04.17 PM IST
Supply disruptions, weather vagaries most felt by Global South: PM Modi at G20 Agriculture Ministers meetingPrime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the ongoing G20 Agriculture Ministers' Meet on Friday said said in the most vital sector of a...
17 Jun, 2023, 12.31 AM IST
Food of the future: The business and economy of super grainsOnce known as inferior coarse grains, millets are now known as super grains for the huge health, economic and environmental benefits they o...
09 Apr, 2023, 12.41 PM IST
India hosts roundtable on millets to strategise production and consumption globallyIndia held its first mega-global event Global Millets (Shree Anna) Conference in Delhi to celebrate 2023 as the International Year of Mille...
19 Mar, 2023, 01.27 PM IST
Millets can help tackle challenges of food security: PM ModiNew Delhi, Mar 18 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said millets can help tackle challenges of food security as well as food h...
18 Mar, 2023, 05.32 PM IST
Ragi to riches: India’s new millet campaign is about how the grain is good for people and planetMillet is no longer promoted as mota anaj; instead, it will be called shree anna or nutri cereal, a superfood high in iron and calcium. The...
19 Feb, 2023, 12.17 PM IST
$100-million opportunity: India, the largest producer of millets, exports only 1% of the outputIndia is gung-ho about becoming a global hub for millets and, in the process, solving global hunger and nutritional issues. But what we cul...
13 Feb, 2023, 10.41 AM IST
Agri budget: Farmers in some states to benefit from millet focus, rice & wheat farmers disappointedThe increase in agri credit by 11.11% to Rs 20 lakh crore for the next fiscal year will help reduce dependence of farmers on local moneylen...
02 Feb, 2023, 09.25 PM IST
Export debutants: India has recently exported over a dozen new agri-products, from Himalayan millet to Assam’s red riceIn a first-of-its-kind export, a 4,000 kg consignment of barnyard millet and ragi (finger millet), grown along the Ganga in Uttarakhand, wa...
28 Aug, 2021, 11.38 PM IST
Grain for green era: Benefits of millets and reasons why people give them upThey are ideal grains for an era of climate change.
21 Mar, 2021, 09.09 AM IST
Kharif crop new minimum support price hike to cost centre ₹33,500cr moreThe new MSP, to be considered by the cabinet on Wednesday, will largely apply to paddy and pulses but will benefit ‘nutri-cereals’ like mil...
04 Jul, 2018, 11.42 AM IST
- Pitching millets as 'smart food of 21st century' (Special to IANS)
Karnataka is dressing them up as "siridanya" or rich grains that should be on every thinking eater's plate. For Icrisat, the Hyderabad-base...
08 Dec, 2017, 11.37 AM IST
How Karnataka is transforming state’s humble and traditional food into an urban delightRagi (finger millet), the staple diet food of southern Karnataka was down from 7.88 lakh hectares in 2010-11 to 6.46 lakh hectares in 2012-...
09 Apr, 2017, 11.05 AM IST
Grain drain: Cheapest cereals in India are the most expensive ones in USIndia's cheapest grains, ignored, disdained, and disappearing in much of the country, are now much sought after cereals in America.
27 Aug, 2013, 08.34 AM IST
- Lesser grains: Can millet save the hungry mns
Months back, when there was a hue and cry over food crisis and shortage of essential food items, Millet cultivation struck my mind as a pla...
10 Sep, 2008, 11.36 PM IST