Are the Indian kitchens not ready to accept ready to eat food? Or are the Indian business moghuls not ready with its plan to offer this to the Indian household?
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 [...]
Feeling the pinch from soaring food prices, the Rs 3,000-crore fast-food industry is revisiting the menu.
India’s Finance Minister said on Thursday that rising food prices was an area of concern and would consider imports to augment food supply.
India’s food price index rose 19.95 percent in the 12 months to Dec. 5, while the fuel index was up 3.95 percent, the government said on Thursday.
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 Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is all set to witness some more wide-ranging reforms. Sources said Union railway minister Mamata Banerjee is not happy with the quality of food served on trains.
The size of the food industry in the country is expected to touch $258 billion by fiscal 2015 from the current level of $181 billion.
The food processing sector in India is geared to meet the international standards and the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 has been enacted which consolidates the laws relating to food and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India for laying down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate [...]
About Rs 50,000 crore worth of fruit and vegetables go waste as only 2 per cent of the production is processed, industry chamber Assocham said on Sunday.
