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Indian agribusiness sets sights on land in east Africa

Indian agribusiness companies are ready to spend $2.5bn buying, or renting for decades, several million hectares of cheap land in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda in what could be some of the largest farming deals struck in Africa in the last 50 years. But in a separate development, plans for a US-based investment company to lease up to 1m hectares of South Sudan for only $25,000 a year appears to .....

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Armenia will buy meat only from five Indian companies

Armenia will buy buffalo meat only from five Indian companies, Grisha Baghian, first deputy minister of agriculture, said today. In 2010 the Government of Armenia approved a special procedure for import of buffalo meat from India. A year earlier a working group was set up by the prime minister to address the issue and several Armenian delegations visited meat factories in India to be dissatisfied with their .....

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For ensuring food security, ICAR-DRDO sign pact for permafrost storage

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement for conservation of plant genetic resources in the National Permafrost Repository at Chang-La, Leh, Ladakh (J&K). The memorandum was signed by Dr S Ayyappan, secretary, DARE, and director- general, ICAR, and Dr V K Saraswat, .....

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Frozen food producers take advantage of global growth opportunities

Anuga Frozen Food has been serving producers for years as a top quality business platform — about 500 suppliers from around 50 countries present a broad spectrum of frozen food products. The ice cold heart of Anuga is Anuga Frozen Food, the international trade show for frozen foods and ice cream products under the roof of Anuga, from 8th to 12th October 2011 in .....