Page 7 - Food

Private solution: Rise in storage helps securing food from damage, loss

A Business Standard analysis found ramping up capacity and engaging the private sector helped FCI's share in total storage to rise to over 50 per cent.

Inga, TIH Singapore tie up to launch PE fund for mid-sized companies

The fund has set an overall target of raising Rs 500 crore and has received commitment of Rs 25 crore

Food Min pushes for wide use of millet products in canteen, office meetings

The Food Ministry on Monday said it has decided to promote millet products like ragi biscuits and cookies in its canteen and all meetings. A directive in this regard has been issued recently in order to promote the consumption of healthy products ahead of the International Year of Millets to be celebrated in 2023. Millets products such as ragi biscuits, cookies, ladoos, baked millet chips etc. as snacks to be served in the meetings. Dosa, idli and vada with millet as the main raw material to be used in the canteens and as far as possible locally available millet-based products should be used, the ministry said in a statement. Ahead of 2023 international year of millets, the Food Ministry has been actively promoting procurement, and consumption of millets in the country and utilization of procured millets for distribution in welfare schemes. Millets consumption confers several benefits and helps in managing lifestyle diseases. Due to their high density of nutrients including vitami

Pizza, pasta and beyond: How Italian food is changing Indian dining

A guide to how to pick and how to cook one the world's most popular cuisines

How real is fake meat? Know the ingredients and health implications

The popularity of plant-based proteins,has increased in recent years as consumers look to eat fewer animal products leading to a projected growth of $3 billion in Australian market by 2030

Need to fix the concept of food subsidies to tackle world hunger crisis

Subsidizing food is largely not an activity that involves the world's poorest people who are most at risk of hunger, but its richest and most amply-fed

Amul bucked Covid blues, launched more than 100 products during lockdown

At a time when other food and beverage (F&B) brands took a hit during the lockdown, Amul was on a product-launching spree.

HUL beats estimates with Rs 2,381-cr net profit in Q1; revenue up 19.6%

Revenue was up 19.6% YoY and profit up 13.5% YoY, its highest-ever quarterly figures

Food stocks dwindling, country staring at severe food crisis: Congress

The Opposition party said the dwindling food stocks in the country were at a 15-year low and at a 50-year low in per capita terms.

First I2U2 projects to promote agriculture, food, green energy in India

The first projects of the I2U2 will be located in India and help with agriculture, food and green energy, according to the joint statement of the four leaders after the group's launch

Putin's Ukraine war has created a food crisis the world can still solve

The invasion has certainly delivered a series of shocks to global commodity markets that have threatened the food security of the most vulnerable countries, especially African ones

Edible oil prices will soften by Rs 15/litre in a few weeks: Industry

Decision arrived at today during a meeting between industry players & officials

Edible oil brand Gulab Oils eyes Rs 5,000 crore turnover in four years

Plans to enter ten states from four currently, expand capacity 10-fold to 1,000 tonnes a day and make additions to product portfolio

UN chief Guterres warns of 'catastrophe' from global food shortage

There is a real risk that multiple famines will be declared in 2022, he said in a video message to officials from dozens of rich and developing countries gathered in Berlin. 2023 could be even worse.

WTO makes final negotiations for trade deals, with eyes on defiant India

The 164-member body is seeking to agree on a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, a reduction of fishing subsidies, pledges on food security and the launch of an internal reform.

WTO MC12: Export restrictions can blow up global food crisis, says DG

Director General Okonjo Iweala Ngozi warns of a 'bumpy road' to consensus on even one-two deliverables

''We don't have food'': African leaders meet as humanitarian crises grows

Leaders called for increased mobilisation to resolve a humanitarian crisis that has left millions displaced and more than 280 million suffering from malnourishment.

Humanitarian aid reached 6.4 mn people in Ukraine since war began: UN

More than 1.5 million people have received health care support, and around 352,000 people have been provided with clean water and hygiene products

Aid deliveries into Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray far from enough: UN

About 1.5 million people have received food assistance over the past seven months in Northern Ethiopia. However, this is only about a quarter of the number of people who needed assistance, OCHA said

19.7 million people in acute need of food in Afghanistan, says UNWFP

UN's World Food Program (WFP) has once again warned of an increase in record hunger levels in Afghanistan, saying that 19.7 million people are in acute need of food