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Beyond rice, wheat: Why India must revive native ‘orphan crops’ for protein securityIndia can boost nutrition security, cut import dependence, and build a global smart protein industry by scaling climate-resilient indigenou...
'Am I out?' Drought and rising costs from Iran war deepen pain for US farmersAmerican farmers in Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Nebraska face immense challenges. Rising fuel and fertilizer prices, linked ...
India must identify key chokepoints, mitigate both supply & price risks: EAC-PM Chairman S Mahendra DevThe unrest in West Asia highlights India's urgent need for improved risk management strategies. This is a crucial time for India to pinpoin...
How Did People Preserve Food Before Modern Kitchens?Before refrigerators, people used clever methods like salting and fermentation to keep food fresh. These ancient techniques focused on cont...
How Food Was Stored Before Modern Kitchens Changed EverythingLong before modern refrigerators, ancient humans mastered food preservation. They used sun, salt, cold, and microbes to store food for surv...
Think ragi is healthier than rice? Pune doctor exposes popular grain traps harming diabetics and weight watchersPune-based physician and diabetes reversal expert Dr Pramod Tripathi has cautioned diabetics and those struggling with obesity against fall...
Revolution in the barn: AI-Powered agritech tackles India’s Rs 1.5-lakh crore post-harvest storage woesIndia loses 10% of its total food grain production post-harvest. The Delhi-based agri-logistic firm looks to minimise it through its digita...
This wooden box was once a bank in villages. Why Sridhar Vembu of Zoho is speaking about it nowRice was once used as currency in villages, but its value declined as farmers relied more on external products. This shift led farmers from...
DMEO to evaluate decentralized procurement of wheat and paddy under the Minimum Support Price (MSP) schemeThe Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, under the NITI Aayog, has invited bids from consultancy firms to support in the evaluatio...
31 silos to come up in Punjab for scientific storage of foodgrains: Union MinisterThe minister said that soon the "one nation, one ration card' policy will be implemented in all states of the country as 12 states have alr...
Australia expect Agri trade with India to pick upAustralia was India’s 10th highest agricultural trading partner valued at $ 2.3 billion in 2016.
- New 3-D chip combines computing, data storage
New York, July 6 (IANS) At a time when computer chips' ability to process a glut of data is slowing, researchers, including one of Indian o...
Learn with ETMarkets: How does food credit workBanks led by SBI were rudely shocked when the Reserve Bank of India asked them to provide for some food credit traditionally treated as a r...
Punjab denies misuse of food-procurement fundsPunjab government said there was no disappearance of foodgrains from godowns in the state and all stocks procured over the years have been ...
'Foodgrain warehousing demand to grow up to 6% in next 5 yrs'The demand for foodgrain warehousing is expected to grow by 5-6 per cent annually in the next five years, according to a report by Rabobank.
Food Act will raise a bill of $2.5 billion in storage build-upImplementation of the Food Security Act will require an investment of $0.5-2.5 bn as capacity addition of about 22-32 million tonne (mt) wi...
Govt targets 34.5 million tonne rice procurement in 2013-14The government has set a target of 34.5 million tonnes of rice procurement for 2013-14 marketing year starting October.
Release of foodgrain could inflate subsidy bill by Rs 20-25K croreWith its granaries brimming over, the government faces a crippling dilemma: The tab for releasing foodgrain to make way for new arrivals ad...
- Check govt grain buys, use cash transfers or food coupons: Study
If the FCI's efficiency were to reach the level of private traders then the optimal stock for rice would be 6.5 mt but for wheat it would r...
- Finmin may prune food subsidy bill
The food subsidy bill for this fiscal is likely to be contained at the revised estimates for '04-05, although the food ministry had asked t...