Before refrigerators, people used clever methods like salting and fermentation to keep food fresh. These ancient techniques focused on cont...

Long before modern refrigerators, ancient humans mastered food preservation. They used sun, salt, cold, and microbes to store food for surv...

Pune-based physician and diabetes reversal expert Dr Pramod Tripathi has cautioned diabetics and those struggling with obesity against fall...

India loses 10% of its total food grain production post-harvest. The Delhi-based agri-logistic firm looks to minimise it through its digita...

Rice was once used as currency in villages, but its value declined as farmers relied more on external products. This shift led farmers from...

The Development Monitoring and Evaluation Office, under the NITI Aayog, has invited bids from consultancy firms to support in the evaluatio...

The 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 was India’s 10th highest agricultural trading partner valued at $ 2.3 billion in 2016.

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...

Banks 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 government said there was no disappearance of foodgrains from godowns in the state and all stocks procured over the years have been ...

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.

Implementation 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...

The government has set a target of 34.5 million tonnes of rice procurement for 2013-14 marketing year starting October.

With its granaries brimming over, the government faces a crippling dilemma: The tab for releasing foodgrain to make way for new arrivals ad...

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...

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...