In a unique initiative, almost 6,000 progressive dairy farmers in Punjab will come together to set up their own hi-end milk plant at Ludhiana for processing milk and retailing it.

Punjab has recorded highest per capita milk availability of 937 grams per day as per latest available data of 2010-11, though the same has dipped by about two per cent from the level of 957 grams p

NAVI MUMBAI: Mumbai and Konkan Division Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) carried out a special drive at Airoli, Vashi, Thane and Mulund check posts to crack down on carriers transporting adulter

“Agriculture will be one of the most important Ministries for the new government,” a senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader told The Hindu on Thursday. “Mr. Modi will focus on building agriculture as an industry and will free up exports of dairy products and foodgrains, etc., with full back-end support for cold storage as there is no other real way creating jobs in rural India.”

A pilot study of American mothers' milk has found levels of the herbicide glyphosate around 1,000 times higher than allowed in European drinking water.

Initiative Helps Them Run Weighing, Testing Machines On This Energy

Bangalore: Power interruptions don’t interrupt them. As many as 522 milk cooperatives in the state are using solar power to run electronic weighing and testing machines, all thanks to an initiative by the SELCO Foundation.

A study conducted by Greenpeace India, a voluntary organisation working on environmental issues, has reported an alarming rise in the concentration of harmful nitrates in drinking water in Malwa.