Vietnam's cashew processing industry is facing a standstill as domestic supplies near exhaustion and imports fail to make up the shortfalls, industry officials said. An official from the state-run

Contrary to popular perceptions that coffee drinking is unsafe, scientific investigations have revealed that moderate coffee consumption might help in warding off many ailments instead of causing

Centre has viewed with deep concern the emerging threat to cotton crop by the leaf curl virus. It is determined that the previous year's incidents of farmers committing suicide due to crop failure

The Rajasthan government has decided to implement a project sponsored by the United National Development Programme (UNDP) on large-scale maize cultivation .

The Haryana Pollution Control Board has decided to take various measures to simplify procedure of consent management for industry. The board has decided to take steps with a view to avoid

Six energy-intensive sectors--cement, textile, sugar, fertiliser (urea), glass & ceramics and paper--which consume energy amounting to about Rs 14,500 crore per annum, can save up Rs 1,750 crore by

Consumers may soon have to do without their regular multivitamin dose, if the government fails to tackle the acute shortage of vitamin B1, the bulk active used in a range of multivitamins and vitamin

Hundreds of Thai farmers rallied to protest a US trademark on a strain of rice developed by a Texas company. The roughly 500 protesters, worried that the trademark of the name "Jasmati" for a rice

A proposal to put a bio-diesel-blended fuel on the US list of alternative fuels-opening the door to potentially large market--is just one step from success in Congress, backers said today. The US

The Board of Radiation And Isotope Technology (BRIT), a division under the department of atomic energy, will soon inaugurate in Navi Mumbai the country's second food irradiation plant for commercial