American farmers in Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Nebraska face immense challenges. Rising fuel and fertilizer prices, linked ...

Farmer producer organisations (FPOs) are key to integrating smallholders in India, but they are constrained by scale, market access, financ...

A family of four in Mumbai died after suspected food poisoning linked to watermelon consumed late at night, prompting an ongoing investigat...

PepsiCo India says India’s agri supply chains are layered, limiting farmers’ price visibility and direct linkages with organised buyers can...

A coordinated push involving policy support, private investment, and technology adoption can help India shift from volume-driven to value-l...

Food waste from fruits and vegetables is a common kitchen problem. Research shows improper storage, especially mixing ethylene-producing fr...

Systemic issues like inadequate cold storage and logistics are identified as critical gaps.

The Grand Challenge aims to bring innovative, modular, and cost-effective solutions to develop "technologies for pre-production; primary pr...

As the shelf life of onions is less, the department has written to all states to place orders if they need onions, the sources said. The Ce...

Agriculture marketing being a State subject, state governments provide necessary post-harvest and marketing infrastructure in their States.

The country is incurring post harvest losses of fruits and vegetable worth Rs 2 lakh crore per year, due to lack of storage and processing ...

India's post-harvest fruit and vegetable losses are over Rs 2 lakh crore annually, owing to inadequate cold storage facilities and lack of ...

About 30% of total fruits and vegetables produced are rendered unfit for consumption due to spoilage as they are highly perishable commodit...

State Bank of India today entered into a tie-up with Sohan Lal Commodity Management to provide post-harvest credit and storage services.

Food minister KV Thomas is under pressure to ensure that the toil of farmers is not wasted."It's my duty to make sure that food grains don'...

FM may have disappointed retail sector by not ringing in even a diluted FDI policy for it, but he has made it immensely easy for foreign in...

The grant of infrastructure status to cold storage sector will provide a major fillip for investment in this vital sector.