-Business Standard Vegetables as a category showed deflation of 4.78% in December y-o-y, which meant prices started rising substantially in January New Delhi: Vegetable prices in Azadpur wholesale market have risen in the range of 20-40 per cent in January 2015 as compared to the corresponding period last year. A few items saw a rise beyond this range. While carrots turned expensive by 129 per cent, peas, spinach and cabbage prices increased...
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High pesticides in vegetables and other foods: Government report
-PTI NEW DELHI: A high level of pesticides was found in 509 samples out of 16,790 comprising veggies, fruits, spices, rice, wheat and other food items in 2013-14, said a latest government report. Most of the vegetables showed relatively higher pesticide residue detection in rainy season followed by summer and winter seasons, it said. However the samples of meat, milk and surface water did not have pesticides above maximum residue level, it...
More »Veggie, fruit prices soar by up to 100% -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Prices of most food items have been inching up relentlessly through the past year despite several so-called reforms in management of food supply chains. While staples like wheat flour and rice have become marginally costlier, prices of pulses like masoor and arhar have soared by up to 30%. Barring a few exceptions, prices of vegetables and fruits have shot up by 20 to 50%, and...
More »Pesticide on your plate -Pritha Chatterjee & Aniruddha Ghosal
-The Indian Express New Delhi: Vegetables are the noble folk of food world, loved equally by doctors and grandmothers. Vegetarians live off them and meat-eaters are told to live off them. But in Delhi, under every crunchy leaf of radish or the shiny brinjal hide dangerous amounts of pesticides that can slowly kill, shows a new study by JNU. Pritha Chatterjee and Aniruddha Ghosal report how growers, consumers and the authorities may...
More »‘Rural Farm’ 50 Feet Off The Ground -Prithvijit Mitra
-The Times of India KOLKATA: It's a patch of green, a wondrous vegetable garden that has sprung up at a height of about 50 feet on the fast-expanding concrete maze of neighbouring New Town. With a produce of more than 70kg since it came into existence last October, it is no less than an efficient rural farm. In fact, it looks cleaner and far better designed and yields only organic vegetables that...
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