Food prices in India continued to rise in the week ended May 29, adding weight to expectations that the central bank will soon take action to ease inflationary pressure.
Former President A P J Abdul Kalam today said there was an urgent need to develop dairy technology to empower rural development and national health and nutrition.
The lab in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad is one of a growing number of research centres that have embraced the sacred status of cows in India and sought to push it to a new level.
Higher food prices and growing input costs are edging out packaged consumer goods from family budgets, leading to slower volume growth for the segment, a decline that industry experts say could continue.
India is facing a scarcity of monsoon rains this year leading to a possible crisis in the provision of water, food and energy in most states, the Indian media reported on Wednesday.
