Ahmedabad: Your tomato soup may be red but chances are there

LUCKNOW: Mango aficionados, farmers and industry bigwigs, chew on this. If minister of food processing industries, Subodh Kant Sahai is referring to India as a future 'World Food Factory', it is not without reason.

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JAIPUR: Two spice parks will be set up in Rajasthan in the near future to augment the marketing of its aromatic agriculture produce and promote the spices-related industry in the State.

One of them, a Rs.26-crore venture, is scheduled to come up in Jodhpur in March 2011. The second is to be set up in the coriander-rich Kota region's Ramganj Mandi.

New Delhi: In India, food safety and standards are neglected topic despite being directly related to public health. According to a survey conducted by Ficci, almost 30% of the respondents, bulk of whom were from the food processing industry, were unaware that Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA) is mandatory to implement. The respondents were not even aware about the existence of such an Act.

DDA plans to develop land under elevated road as public space with many facilities

Cadmium has been discovered in the painted design on Shrek-themed drinking glasses being sold nationwide at McDonald

BHUBANESWAR: Rice Tech 2010, a three-day event, would bring together a host of agri-researchers, technology providers, rice industry captains and farmers to the City on June 5.