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Vegetable prices up at Delhi wholesale market

-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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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...

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Scientists concern over impact of climate change on Indian agriculture -Amit Mitra

-The Hindu Business Line Hyderabad: Scientists and researchers struck a note of concern over the projected impact of climate change on Indian agriculture, especially coastal agriculture, and livestock at the just-concluded international conference on Bio-resource and Stress Management here. Laxman Singh Rathore, director general of Indian Meteorological Department, set the tone for the discussions by pointing out that mean warming in India is likely to be in the range of 1.7 to...

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India to soon manufacture health capsule from tea extract -Vanita Srivastava

-The Hindustan Times   In what can be a boost for the Make in India slogan the industry and lab are entering into new areas of partnership-latest being transfer of technology from a CSIR lab to make multi nutritional health capsule from tea extracts. CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur in Himachal Pradesh has developed technology for extraction of catechins using water and green solvents without using any hazardous chemicals. The technology...

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Ashok Gulati, former chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices, and at present chair professor agriculture, the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, speaks with Sandip Das

-The Financial Express From allocating extra foodgrains to states as a means to fight the price rise to setting up a high-level committee to recommend measures for restructuring the Food Corporation of India (FCI), the government has taken various steps for cutting down food subsidy and curbing further spike in agricultural commodity prices. From allocating extra foodgrains to states as a means to fight the price rise to setting up a high-level...

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