EU approves stevia extract as sweetener

Safety tests prove steviol glycosides have no adverse health impacts

Ramadoss does a turnaround on cola controversy

Street food vendors threatened after court ruling

Russia bans rice imports from India claiming pesticide contamination

Creating indomitable superbugs

Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat

Centre steps in to monitor food availability

Floods destroy standing crops; in July, hailstorm had damaged farms and orchards

Whale of a Problem

Whale meat contains mercury and PCBs, says a new study

Pollution-hit Tuticorin salt manufacturers worried by food safety act being implemented

Fly ash from thermal power plants in the area settles on the salt; affects quality

Prices rise, not hunger

People prefer to eat less nutritious food than go hungry, says FAO

Toxic harvest

Eating rice grown in arsenic-contaminated water can damage genes

Mahua liquor is witnessing a rebrand, but legal framework protecting tribal rights across India is needed

Tribal world is intertwined with mahua but it still suffers from false colonial notions of being a lowly toxic liquor

Checking a menace

A virus is being used to destroypests that damage the chickpea crop

Colour of death

Food for thought

Will India’s new agricultural export policy work?

Food grain buffers exceed need, global prices remain depressed

Rice that binds

Farm reform

Open markets, land on lease

Only allocated rice in rations, people sell it to buy expensive wheat

Wheat prices have shot up in the market following a reduced production this year 

Are new draft rules on antibiotics in poultry enough?

Antibiotic misuse in all poultry birds and livestock must be urgently addressed

Bird flu spreads in West Africa; FAO alerts governments

Cameroon has already incurred a loss of $20 million due to the outbreak

Basmati rice exporters demand government support to improve exports

International prices of basmati have been declining over the last two years

Africa’s vultures dwindling, says study

Raptors diminishing across continent due to a number of reasons

About 100 districts have suffered drought conditions for 15 years

Continuous erratic weather is making states more vulnerable

Bitter sugar

Sugarcane farmers are the losers as Uttar Pradesh government, mill owners strike a deal

Drug ban saves vultures

Painkiller given to animals was killing the birds