Aflatoxin management in the groundnut value chain
By - Dr Mukti Sudan Basu The presence of aflatoxin in food is recognized as one of the biggest threats to access to safe food and ultimately affecting food exports. Aflatoxin, a secondary metabolite of Aspergillus...
Packaging South Asia releases the third issue of IndiFoodBev
The IppGroup is pleased to bring its third bi-monthly Food and Beverage Processing and Packaging publication called IndiFoodBev. IndiFooodBev covers innovations in all areas of the food and beverage sector, including procurement, sorting, storage,...
Nespresso invests in reviving coffee from Mozambique
Nespresso announced the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding with Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park to promote the local coffee industry, as part of the Nespresso’s Reviving Origins program. The program aims to restore high-quality coffee...
Farmkart transforming the Indian agriculture industry
Barwani, an agri-centric region of Madhya Pradesh, witnessed a wave of a technological revolution in the form of Farmkart, a new generation startup transforming the Indian agriculture industry. Founded in 2017 and based in...
Telluris Biotech India gets 4 million dollar investment
The Innovation in Food and Agriculture Fund managed by Sathguru Catalyzer Advisors has committed investment up to the US $ 4 million (approximately Rs 2900 lakh) for minority holding in Hyderabad-based Telluris Biotech India....
SourceTrace collaborates with small farmers in Haryana
SourceTrace, a company that provides data-driven digital solutions to the agriculture and allied sectors, is collaborating with the Small Farmers Agribusiness Consortium – Haryana (SFACH), extending its digital solutions to support the horticulture farmers...
Cocoatrait to Cocoshala
Founded by L Nitin Chordia in 2014, the Chennai-based Cocoatrait has three business verticals – Cocoatrait, a consulting vertical; Cocoashala, education and training vertical; and, Kocoatrait, a product vertical. Speaking about these, Chordia says,...
Apple harvest and infield sorting – An innovative approach
Over the last few years, big companies have invested millions of dollars for the development of commercial robotic apple harvesters. For instance, New Zealand based Abundant Robotics uses vacuum-based picking method while FFRobotics of...
The growth of Parakh Agro and Parakh Flexipacks
When we wrote our first story about Parakh Agro and its flexible packaging plant in Bhandgaon near Pune, exactly ten years ago for our July 2009 issue, Prakash Parakh said to us, “There is...
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