Food regulator FSSAI has given food business operators four more months, till December-end, to exhaust all pre-printed packaging materials claiming '100 per cent fruit juices' in their packaged products. The decision to extend the current deadline of August 31 has been taken following consultations with stakeholders.

Indian Council for Agricultural Research - National Research Centre for Banana (ICAR-NRCB) in Trichy has launched a new variety called ‘Kaveri Kanchan,’ a hybrid offspring of ‘nendran’ banana.

In an attempt to reduce India’s high dependence on edible oil imports, the government is looking to boost domestic oilseeds production. The plan is to increase yields, expand the area under cultivation and introduce a dynamic import duty structure so that domestic prices are not impacted by cheaper imports.

There is a huge potential to increase economic cooperation between India and Africa as both regions can look at doubling two-way trade to USD 200 billion in the next seven years, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday.

India has allowed the export of 200,000 metric tons of non-basmati white rice to Malaysia through National Cooperative Exports Limited, as per a Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) notice reviewed by ET. The move comes after Malaysia's Minister for Plantation and Commodities, Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani, expressed a desire for 'friendly ties' with India and proposed an arrangement to secure rice supplies.

Minister Plenipotentiary Yehia El Wathek Billah, Head of the Egyptian Commercial Representation, stressed the importance of the growing strategic partnership between Egypt and India during his speech at the 19th India-Africa Business Conference, organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry.

India’s agricultural exports to Australia are up 58 per cent during the first half of 2024 with the first phase of the Australia-India Economic Co-operation and Trade Agreement (ECTA) working well, said the Australian High Commissioner to India, Philip Green.

The Department of Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare has released progress of area coverage under kharif crops as on 20th August 2024.

The Punjab government's crop diversification drive has helped the state increase basmati cultivation area by 12.58 per cent during this kharif season, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian said on Sunday.

The West Bengal government on Tuesday decided to allow inter-State trade of potatoes for the next seven days on the consideration that there will be no shortage of the spud for the State and the prices will not rise.