Agriculture

Bayer to mentor young innovators and startups NITI Aayog's Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is also collaborating with Bayer, a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of healthcare and nutrition, to work towards the mission’s innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives...

1,700 German companies active in India, says Ministry Germany's Deutsche Bank has signed a loan agreement to lend Euro68.87 million (Rs.600 crore) to the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) for onward lending to cooperatives, especially the Farmer Producer Organizations being...

Unique opportunity to put the Dole Promise to work, says Malhotra Dole Asia Holdings, a part of the California-based global multinational leader selling fresh and packaged fruits and fruit-based products worldwide, is expanding its presence in India in partnership with...

Chhattisgarh tribal-region to focus on cropping systems The World Bank is lending US$100 million project to develop sustainable production systems that allow tribal households in remote areas of Chhattisgarh to practice round-the-year production of diversified and nutritious food. CHIRAAG, the...

Madhya Pradesh launches the NAVAAS initiative Start-ups should become the pivot of agricultural transformation as India works to build a "Cyan Revolution", moving on from the successful six-decade old "Green Revolution", according to experts who see AgriTech eco-system with emerging...

Study on flour accepted by the American Diabetes Association Jackfruit365, a patented Green Jackfruit Flour brand from Kerala, is now clinically proven to control blood sugar according to a clinical study monitoring the effect of green jackfruit flour in Type...

Debottleneck infra at ports, says Saraf The Federation of Indian Export Organizations (FIEO) has reiterated calls on the Government to address some of the key issues faced by its members including adequate availability of containers, softening of freight charges and...

WayCool Foods targets 70% digital and mechanical automation Innoven Capital, Asia's leading venture lender operating out of Mumbai, Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Singapore and Beijing, has participated in the US$7.8 million debt raised by India's largest Agri supply chain startup WayCool Foods....

Traceability solutions needed for Indian spices in international markets The Spice Board of India has set a target for exports of spices at US$5 billion by 2025 and US$10 billion by 2030, having crossed US$3 billion for the first time...

Develop new processes and products for farmers, says Gowda The agriculture sector has a huge potential to play a key role in taking India to a US$5 trillion economy as it is already contributing 14-16% to the Gross Domestic Product...