How ADM supports small farmers with regenerative agriculture
ADM, a provider of sustainable nutrition solutions, creates and combines ingredients and flavors for food and beverages, supplements, and animal feed and has been working with smallholder farmers to develop a sustainable value chain.
Farmers,...
Ways to propel sustainable growth of wheat industry
The Wheat Products Promotion Society (WPPS), a 33-year-old non-profit organization, has unveiled a visionary set of recommendations aimed at transforming India's wheat-based industries and ensuring their sustainable growth and development. The comprehensive proposals, presented...
Disease-resistant groundnut variety released in Bangladesh
A superior groundnut variety, developed by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), is now available in the country for cultivation for the upcoming...
Ess Kay Enterprises: Packaging for the agro-products sector
Delhi-based Ess Kay Enterprises, a provider of packaging for makers of agrochemical products such as pesticides and fertilizers, has forayed into label printing with investments in Mark Andy flexo label presses from Flexo Image...
Government steps in to check rising prices of tomatoes
The Department of consumer affairs has directed National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED) and National Cooperative Consumers Federation (NCCF) to immediately procure tomatoes from mandis in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra for simultaneous distribution...
Ministry roundtable with agri-food processing companies
An investor roundtable interaction was co-chaired by Rajesh Kumar Singh, secretary in the department for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT), and Anita Praveen, secretary in the ministry of food processing industries with...
Gram Unnati partners with Bayer for spring maize cultivation
Gram Unnati, a full-stack agricultural value chain services company, announced the signing of an MoU with Bayer to promote the cultivation of spring maize in six districts of western Uttar Pradesh.
The six districts covered...
Cargill and TechnoServe partner on regenerative agriculture
Global food corporation Cargill, in collaboration with non-profit TechnoServe, has announced ‘Srishti’, a transformative partnership to empower 10,000 maize farming households in Davanagere, Karnataka. Through this partnership, farmers will be trained on the use...
Leads Connect, ICRISAT join hands for sustainable agriculture solutions
Leads Connect Services, a premier agritech data, risk management, and financial services company, in collaboration with Agribusiness and Innovation Platform-International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (AIP-ICRISAT), recently organized a sensitization program on...
Tackling counterfeit seeds with ‘unclonable’ labels
Fake seeds can cost farmers more than two-thirds of expected crop yields and threaten food security. Trackable silk labels could help.
Average crop yields in Africa are consistently far below those expected, and one significant...