Nilutpal Thakur
The Worldstar alco-bev award winners
Packaging related to luxury products and alcoholic beverages generally tends to grab the maximum eyeballs. In the Worldstar Global Packaging Awards 2024 announced in...
Kharif crops acreage up this Kharif season
Pushed by an active monsoon this season, Kharif crops were sown on around 979.89 lakh hectares as of August 12, up from 966.40 lakh...
Economic Survey points to food processing sector’s potential
Pointing to the rising potential of the food processing sector, the Economic Survey 2023-24 says the share of processed food exports increased from 14.9%...
₹1.52 lakh crore for agriculture, allied sectors in budget
In the Union Budget 2024, Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 23 July announced the allocation of ₹1.52 lakh crore for the agriculture and allied...
Rice, WTO and the Iran-Israel conflict
Rice, India's staple food, is always in the news – albeit for different reasons. Last June, India's ban on non-basmati white rice triggered panic...
Food processing – Sunrise sector needs a bigger push
The food processing sector is one of the key drivers of the food and agriculture sector, which needs a bigger push, more investment and...
Food waste: 1 billion meals squandered a day in 2022, says UN
Sample this. In 2022, 783 million people were affected by hunger and a third of humanity faced food insecurity. In the same year, households...
Focus on food processing, fisheries, diary in interim budget
In the interim budget 2024-2025 tabled on 1 February 2024, Union minister of finance Nirmala Sitharaman laid emphasis on agriculture and food processing, fisheries,...
India’s grain and pulses – balancing yield and nutrition
As climate change wreaks havoc, and an uneven and inconsistent rainfall pattern puts farmers in distress, concerns over crop production and food security take...
The LuLu Mall and Hypermarket in Kochi — a packager’s dreamland
Hypermarkets and supermarkets are commonplace in all modern cities. But this is one hypermarket that beats them all – at least on the face...
