Published: Sep 17, 2012 By: Dayakar Rao

Sorghum or jowar is an important staple diet of millions of rural poor in the semi-arid tropics of the country.

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Awe Sum Organics has a fresh new logo

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: Laurence Gibbons

Vion Food Group has announced that Dirk Kloosterboer will be taking over the responsibilities as chief executive and chairman following the departure of Uwe Tillmann at the Dutch owned meat processor.

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: Laurence Gibbons

Frozen fruit and vegetable processing company, Ardo UK has appointed Stuart Hiscott as marketing manager.

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: Gary Scattergood

The outgoing chief executive of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) is to join Tesco as group technical director.

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: Laurence Gibbons

High street sandwich retailer Greggs has announced that Ian Durant will take over as chairman of the board next May.

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: John Wood

Meat processor Vion UK has rejected an offer by the Scottish government to buy and lease back its threatened Hall’s of Broxburn plant to avert its closure and save 1,700 jobs at the site.

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: Elaine WATSON

The true extent of the financial and human catastrophe that engulfed lean finely textured beef (LFTB) maker Beef Products Inc (BPI) as a result of the 'pink slime' media storm is spelled out in detail in the 263-page defamation lawsuit filed yesterday aga

Published: Sep 15, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Coming up still looks to be a weather pattern for the Nation that has not been seen for a very long period of time.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Two African American men filed a discrimination lawsuit against the In-N-Out Burger restaurant chain, alleging the company discriminates against hiring blacks, and people over the age of 40.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Samantha Edwards

Pieminister has purchased its four-acre production site in Bristol to help double production over the next three years.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Georgi Gyton

The best in baking talent was recognised at the Baking Industry Awards last night, with Robert Burns taking the coveted title of Baker of the Year.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Canadian swine producers will boost exports and become more competitive on the world stage with the support of the Harper Government.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Origin Agritech, a supplier of hybrid and genetically modified crop seeds, has opened an RMB170m ($26.83m) corn seed processing center in Bole, Xinjiang, China.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: FBR

Poultry farmers in Mexico have culled nearly 22.3 million birds between June and August 2012 and immunized 140 million birds, in order to control the outbreak of avian flu, according to National Food Health, Safety and Quality Service, or Senasica.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Carina Perkins

Meat processor Hilton Food Group has reported flat profits for the first half of 2012, with strong sales offset by consumer downtrading and adverse exchange rates.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Nicholas Robinson

Successful provision of risk assessment in the food and feed industries after a decade has proven the usefulness of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), said Ernst & Young.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Lorraine Mullaney

Glanbia Dairy ingredients Ireland has announced ambitious plans to invest £120M (€150M) in the construction of a world-class milk processing facility in Belview, County Kilkenny

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: Laurence Gibbons

Food manufacturing business guru Paul Wilkinson will take over as the chairman of Thorntons’ board of directors on February 1 2013.

Published: Sep 14, 2012 By: DANIEL LOOKER

A bipartisan group in the House of Representives took one last stand Thursday to force a vote on a farm bill before Congress leaves town to campaign for re-election.