Published: Jul 31, 2018

The new regulations on printing ink for food packaging material shall be in place by July 2019. FSSAI, the country’s apex food regulator, is working on the regulations, and it would take another year-and-a-half for the process to be complete.

Published: Jul 30, 2018

Tata Starbucks Limited announced the opening of a new store at Worli’s Atria Mall. This is its 45th outlet in Mumbai.

Published: Jul 30, 2018

The food industry has reacted positively to the proposed amendments in the licensing and registration regulations under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.

Published: Jul 27, 2018

bigbasket, India’s largest online supermarket, continues to clock about 18 per cent of its value turnover from fresh fruits and vegetables (F&Vs).

Published: Jul 27, 2018

BeatO (short for Beating the ring O of diabetes), India’s first and only full-stack digital solution for managing diabetes, has launched a range of diabetic-friendly healthy products.

Published: Jul 25, 2018

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, in its recently held 28th meeting, clarified that milk enriched with vitamins or minerals salt (fortified milk) was classifiable under HS code 0401 as milk, and hence, would now exempted from GST.

Published: Jul 25, 2018

With growing evidence that some chemicals found in food colourings, preservatives, and packaging materials may harm children’s health, a new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement in the August 18 Paediatrics.

Published: Jul 20, 2018

As Indian truckers on Wednesday refused to load the consignments to Delhi and other markets due to a strike call given by truck operators, apple growers started to fear that their produce would be lost.

Published: Jul 20, 2018

A.P. Moller-Maersk has released its latest trade report on India, noting that India’s containerized trade with the world has enjoyed a ‘spirited uptick’ in the first quarter of 2018.

Published: Jul 18, 2018

Heavy rainfalls are not new to India and three years ago, a lot of farmers in the Nagpur district lost their crops to water damages.

Published: Jul 18, 2018

In a bid to boost onion exports, the central government has decided to give a 5% benefit to onion exporters under the Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS).

Published: Jul 17, 2018

Last week, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South Korean President Moon Jae-in had set a target of increasing bilateral trade to $50 billion by 2030 from the existing level of $ 20 billion.

Published: Jul 17, 2018

The trade war between the United States and China is leaving it's effect on potential exports of other countries.

Published: Jul 16, 2018

It was reported that Indian apple growers were facing a huge Alterniya disease problem, as apple crops were dealt a massive blow.

Published: Jul 16, 2018

Plum trees are one of the most important and widely cultivated fruit crops in temperate regions all over the world.

Published: Jul 13, 2018

After 15 days, the teams of Punjab Mandi Board sprang into action again, inspecting 68 fruit and vegetable markets in the state early Tuesday morning.

Published: Jul 13, 2018

The apple growers in India are being faced with a serious problem; due to the Alterniya disease there are immense losses to the crops.

Published: Jul 13, 2018

Four days of incessant rains have unleashed mayhem in the city Mumbai, but there is some good news as well.

Published: Jul 12, 2018

On July 2, 2018, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry issued a notification extending the quantitative restrictions (QRs) on imports of peas by another three months until September 30, 2018.

Published: Jul 11, 2018

As hailstorms continues to damage their crops, apple farmers in Himachal Pradesh have now started covering orchards with anti-hail nets.