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Food safety issues – residues, contaminants: Scenario in india

Food security has always been a topic of major focus for policy-makers all over the world. To be able to provide food for all is a challenge even today for many of the under-developed and developing countries. A large number of countries still depend upon the import of food. Among those importers of food, the ones from the developed countries have started making the quality criteria of foods more stringent with .....

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Embassy of India in Germany commissions study on food processing sector

Embassy of India, Berlin, Germany, has informed AIFPA (All India Food Processors’ Association) that it has commissioned a study on the Experience and Prospects for Increasing Investments in India’s Food Processing Sector under the trade promotion budget of its commercial wing. The report gives a detailed overview of the German food processing industry, including details of transport, logistics, distribution, and its .....

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Horti-hub inaugurated in Meghalaya

Taking horticulture into a bigger scale to uplift the economy of farmers, Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma today inaugurated a horti-hub at Zikzak in West Garo Hills district. The hub which started as a seed-farm in the 1950s during Assam government will function as a demonstration-cum-training centre for farmers on new crop technology and cultivation, commercialisation and management of .....

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Paddy procurement up 42%

The State Government agencies and millers have purchased a total quantity of 44,08,491 tonnes of paddy this season up to January 4. This is compared with 30,94,637 tonnes on the same day last year, according to official information. Adequate number of gunnies and equipment have been provided at the purchase centres. During the current kharif marketing season, the agencies have purchased 8.14 lakh tonnes of .....