Food Production

The proposed move would strengthen enforcement and monitoring, allowing authorities to track the movement and handling of food products more effectively and to respond faster to contamination, recalls, or food safety violations. India to mandate daily records for food businesses, FSSAI tells WTO.

AI-enabled analyzers use digital imaging and machine learning to assess moisture content, impurities, broken grains and overall grain quality in wheat, rice and other cereals.

Grain storage is needed to support the Public Distribution System and maintain price stability of food.

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Lab-grown proteins and other nutritional breakthroughs will have a revolutionary impact. Food-tech could help us prove Thomas Malthus’s dismal forecast wrong again—but without worsening the world’s exposure to climate change in the process.

India released the world’s first genome-edited rice, a breakthrough that promises to retune its farm R&D space.

Free foodgrains for 800 million Indians mean no expense for most on wheat and rice, which make up 7.5% of India’s Consumer Price Index. For better policymaking, we must update our inflation metrics to reflect actual patterns of consumption.