Parliamentary proceedings: Modi govt will purchase all farm produce at MSP, says Agriculture Minister in Rajya Sabha

Parliamentary proceedings: Modi govt will purchase all farm produce at MSP, says Agriculture Minister in Rajya Sabha

Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan speaks in the Rajya Sabha during the Winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi, on December 6, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The Narendra Modi government will purchase all farm produce at minimum support price, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said in Rajya Sabha on Friday (December 6, 2024). … Read more

Better yield and post-harvest management must for scaling up millets produce, says Ashok Dalwai

Better yield and post-harvest management must for scaling up millets produce, says Ashok Dalwai

CEO of Nutrihub, B Dayakara Rao (right), felicitating Uttarakhand Agricultural Minister Ganesh Joshi during International Nutri Cereal Convention 6.0 (INCC) in Hyderabad on Friday. Also seen are Director General of the National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRD&PR) G. Narendra Kumar, V.P. Sharma and others. | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal “There’s an immediate … Read more

We still need to work on getting AI to produce better and more accurate data: Sean Narayanan, CEO, Emids – ET HealthWorld

We still need to work on getting AI to produce better and more accurate data: Sean Narayanan, CEO, Emids – ET HealthWorld

Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Sean Narayanan, CEO of Emids, to learn more about the challenges associated with AI in healthcare and how Emids is helping with data engineering solutions through AI to build healthcare solutions. AI: impacting healthcareArtificial Intelligence has made huge strides in healthcare and has improved the healthcare of millions of … Read more

HC directs Guruvayur Devaswom to produce Njanappana award files

HC directs Guruvayur Devaswom to produce Njanappana award files

A Division Bench of the Kerala High Court on Monday directed the Guruvayur Devaswom managing committee to produce the entire files relating to Poonthanam Njanappana Puraskaram for 2020, 2021 and 2022. The Bench comprising Justice Anil K. Narendran and Justice P.G. Ajithkumar passed the order on a writ petition field by Ratheesh Madhavan of Ernakulam challenging the … Read more

Modified Purple Tomato May Be Coming to Your Grocery Store

Modified Purple Tomato May Be Coming to Your Grocery Store

Sept. 23, 2022 — No matter how you slice it, a genetically engineered purple tomato just got one step closer to showing up in U.S. grocery stores. The U.K. company developing the new purple fruit has passed a first test with U.S. regulators, demonstrating that genetic changes to the tomatoes do not expose the plants … Read more

IIT Guwahati develops new method to produce sugar substitute ‘Xylitol’ from sugarcane waste – ET HealthWorld

IIT Guwahati develops new method to produce sugar substitute ‘Xylitol’ from sugarcane waste – ET HealthWorld

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati have developed an ultrasound-assisted fermentation method to produce a safe sugar substitute called “Xylitol” from bagasse, the residue left after crushing of sugarcane. According to officials, the new method overcomes operational limitations of chemical methods of synthesis and time delays associated with conventional fermentation. The research … Read more

Food Safety Recalls: U.S. System Leaves Consumers Vulnerable

Food Safety Recalls: U.S. System Leaves Consumers Vulnerable

May 26, 2022 – When it comes to finding out about food recalls from a local grocery store, it might be worth shopping around. Some stores, like Eagle Foods and Costco, take decisive action when a food manufacturer or the FDA issues a safety alert. They text or robocall their loyalty card customers so they … Read more

Prescriptions for Fruits and Vegetables a Blossoming Program

Prescriptions for Fruits and Vegetables a Blossoming Program

Michel Nischan, co-founder, Wholesome Wave; chef; sustainable food advocate. Wholesome Wave: “Produce Prescription Programs Then and Now” webinar; “2020 Impact Report,” “Produce Prescription Programs: U.S. Field Scan.” Harvard Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation: “Mainstreaming Produce Prescriptions: A Policy Strategy Report,” “New Initiative to Mainstream Produce Rx Programs Promotes Access to Healthy Food for … Read more