The commerce ministry recently said in a summit that the ministry was aiming to build a coalition with the ministry of agriculture, ministry of food processing industries and other aligned ministries to create export opportunities for rural entrepreneurs through sustained market promotion and market access initiatives in coming years.
India has set a target of exporting organic food worth $1 billion in the next five years with its produce receiving wide acceptance in many mature markets of the US and Europe, a top official said on Saturday.
Agricultural cooperative major National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) is eyeing the markets in the Gulf and Europe with food products aimed primarily at the Indian diaspora.
The Agriculture Ministers of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) have signed a global food security declaration in Moscow.
India needs an investment of almost Rs 1 lakh crore in the food processing industry to raise its percentage to 25 per cent of the total agricultural produce annually.
It began quietly in America a decade ago, with a tomato. Since the introduction of the Flavr Savr tomato, engineered for long shelf life, genetically modified food has become a fact of American life.
Does ‘Mehengai’ matter, politically? This is a country where governments – both at the Centre and in at least one state – have been voted out over soaring food prices. And yet, till Wednesday’s storm in Parliament – which led to the adjournment of both Houses – it appeared as if food was not worth [...]
Faced with an annual loss of Rs 76,500 crore, the Indian agriculture industry needs to gear up infrastructure facilities as also the allied food processing industry on a war footing, a top official of National Dairy Research Institute Deemed University, Karnal, said on Monday.
The Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Committee in its latest estimates has projected that during the current financial year, agriculture sector could experience minus 2 per cent growth.
India’s Food Ministry will decide on easing a ban on non-basmati rice exports after monitoring the monsoon’s progress to ensure that the country has enough supplies in case the annual rains are lower than expected, paring fresh crop output.
