Veggies delight

The rising demand for vegetables has opened up a money-making opportunity for small farmers. Already reeling from recurring droughts and …

Unravelling the food mess

Reaching food to people who need it the most has remained one of the most stubborn problems in India. The public distribution system (PDS) is in …

Food processing sector gets a boost under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana

Budget allocation has doubled from Rs 633.84 crore in 2017-18 to Rs 1,313.08 crore in 2018-19

Doubling farmers’ income by 2022 a challenge: NABARD official

When most of the terms of trade are against farmers, doubling their income by 2022 will be a challenge unless we address the post-production issues

A fruitful journey

A food safari in the desert of Rajasthan reveals a variety difficult to imagine in cities

The truth of grains

The recent starvation deaths in Orissa have thrown up a more fundamental question -- that of local food security.

Poor post-harvest storage, transportation facilities to cost farmers dearly

If procurement of farm produce increases with the announcement of a new MSP, farmers’ post-harvest losses may increase manifold

Punjab's cold storage owners struggle to stay in business

As potato farmers abandon their produce in cold stores for over a year, storage owners are paying from their pockets to dispose old stock and …

‘Reduce food waste, mitigate climate change’

Researchers have estimated that food waste-related emissions may increase from 0.5 gigatonnes today to 1.9-2.5 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalents …

Rs 2 lakh crore: This is what government owes the Food Corporation of India

Without the fund, FCI is borrowing money with a high interest rate; government might not be able to procure foodgrains as expected impacting …

Centre draws flak from Parliamentary panel over state of onion silos

The Standing Committee also noted that 51,582.74 million tonnes (MT) of onion had been damaged due to spoilage in the last three years

Bumper kharif amid excess stock? Is India staring at hard agri decisions

Restrict procurement from Punjab and Haryana; stop procuring from states offering bonus on MSP; divert excessive stock for ethanol and cattle feed

Death on mounds of a bumper crop

As corruption hijacks procurement centres in Bundelkhand, farmers prefer suicide to a debt trap. Richard Mahapatra reports from Uttar Pradesh …

Piecemeal proposals

The recommended grain policy may help tackle the problem of plenty, but food insecurity will remain (Read full article)

Baiga agriculture can solve problems that plague modern systems

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Dangers ahead at WTO

The trade facilitation agreement paves the way for fresh pressures on developing countries such as tariff cuts on industrial products

India's nutritional puzzle

From the maw of the Indian state there has emerged an undigested piece of development cake: nutritionally speaking, people's diets are out of …

Cool creation

A cold storage system that does without power and skilled labour has been developed

Pots of wisdom

Earthenware is staging a comeback in our kitchens with a new fervour

Preserving fruits

Cheap storage for potatoes

An on-farm storage facility has been developed to see potatoes through the summer

Fruitful find

Shelf-life of apples increased to eight months

Safe storage

Using a little turmeric powder mixed with rice can protect the stored grain from pests

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