Friday, 27 March 2015

India Agri & Food Updates - March'2015 !

1. Bhoomiputra  Program in MaaTV on 28th Mar ( Saturday) at 8.00 am IST. MaaTV will broadcast my Natural Farm.

2. The Bangalore Report, the latest FAO assessment of the DIAAS protein quality measurement method, is a “very positive step” towards replacing PDCAAS.

3. With an investment of $500 million, Five star chicken prepares Rs 3,100-crore bucket to take on KFC, McDonald's expanding all three units: shrimp, poultry and food.

4. As per NDDB, Small-holder dairying has proved to be an effective tool for increasing rural prosperity in parts of Asia.

5. Online tea retailer Teabox has raised about Rs 40 crore ($6 million) in Series A funding from a clutch of venture capital firms, including JAFCO Asia, Keystone Group and Dragoneer Investment.
Teabox sources tea from over 200 plantations in the country for its customers in 75 countries.

6. According to recent OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook, the demand for milk and its products in Asia region will reach almost will reach almost 320 Million Tonnes in 6 Years.

7. Hyderabad will host the third edition of Agritex 2015, an international agriculture trade fair, from March 30 to April 1 at the HITEX facility at Madhapur.

8. Nearly 500 containers of Indian groundnut shipments have been stranded at Haiphong port in Vietnam following the detection of groundnut seed beetle (Caryedon serratus) in the consignments.

9. The Agriculture Ministry has lowered its estimates of Rabi crop damage due to unseasonal rainfall and hailstorms through the first half of March to 106.73 lakh hectares (lh).

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