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With the development of agricultural science and technology, more domestically developed crop species have been promoted, covering more than 95 percent of the total areas of crops planted in China by the end of last year, said Wan Jianmin, vice-president of the academy. … [Read more...] about Seed development helps boost food production, academy says

The management of Laljee Godhoo (LG) and Co. received information that a few shopkeepers were stocking fake asafoetida products in the name of their firm and selling them to customers. A representative of the firm complained to the city police and based on complaint, the city police raided a few places in the city. … [Read more...] about 13 held for selling fake food products in Chennai

“At present all vitamin C supplements available are synthetic or artificially produced. Although these are effective, concerns have begun to emerge across the world over their possible ill-effects. Our project will explore the possibility of developing vitamin C from amla which is the richest natural source of this vital nutrient,” he said. … [Read more...] about Amla to be developed as natural source of Vitamin C

Chennai: People who make and sell food from home will now need approval from the food safety department.Food safety officials are tracking home chefs through the latter’s social media pages and are checking retail stores across the city to trace home-based food products. It is mandatory for all selling food out of their home kitchens to obtain approval from the state department to continue their sales.Violation of this rule can land them in prison or entail a fine up to Rs 5 lakh. To apply one must log on to the FSSAI portal, foscos.fssai.gov.in, after which the state officials would grant the registration and licences.Officials said they expedited the process in the past three months after home food businesses proliferated during the lockdown. During these months the department has registered about 150 businesses.“We initially began tracing them based on complaints from consumers. They often complained of poor quality of the products. But every time we went to check we … [Read more...] about Home chefs come under food safety dept lens

By Sanjay Kumar2021 will be a watershed year for the planet. It will be a year where most countries excluding China will be coming out of a deep economic recession. Talking about the food services, in particular, the industry has been hit hard on two counts - the removal of input tax credit and the pandemic that followed in the year after. Being one of the largest employers of semi-skilled and partially skilled labour, it has resulted in huge unemployment of people who receive wages that are marginally above those of the minimum wage category.The consequence of the removal of the input tax credit has been disastrous for the industry as whatever margins existed, were wiped out and the cash trade for the agricultural commodity came back with a vengeance. Hence, the kind of macro-economic intervention that will be needed would be very different from the one that has been seen in the last decade.The foodservice industry is one of the largest consumers of agricultural produce. Given the new … [Read more...] about Budget expectation: It’s imperative to restore input tax credit on food sales