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Bayer advances genome-editing initiatives for nutrition enhanced vegetables
28-May-2024 - 0 Comments.
As part of its strategic open innovation approach global life science company Bayer has advanced two initiatives with external partners to bring forward genome editing in vegetables.
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Top Vegetable Producing States in India
03-Apr-2024 - 0 Comments.
India, with its diverse climatic conditions and fertile soils, is a major producer of a variety of vegetables. The year 2022-23 has seen some states outperform others in terms of vegetable production. Here’s a look at the top vegetable producing states in India for the year 2022-23, along with their production figures.
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Top Beetroot Producing States in India
02-Apr-2024 - 0 Comments.
India, with its diverse climatic conditions, is a major producer of a variety of vegetables, one of which is beetroot. This vibrant and versatile vegetable is known for its earthy flavour and aroma, and is often referred to as a super food due to its rich nutritional profile.
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Otipy joins ONDC Network, delivering farm fresh produce within 12 hours of harvest
05-Mar-2024 - 0 Comments.
Otipy, the pioneering agritech start-up has joined the ONDC, to make farm fresh fruits and vegetables available to consumers on the ONDC Network. This integration ensures Otipy's catalog is visible on various apps, making it easy to discover and enabling smooth transactions on the growing Network.
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Top 5 States Leading India's Poly House Revolution
04-Mar-2024 - 0 Comments.
Poly houses, also known as greenhouses, are rapidly transforming the Indian agricultural landscape. These controlled environments allow farmers to cultivate high-value fruits and vegetables year-round, offering numerous benefits
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Bayer expands its fruits and vegetables business to strawberries
22-Sep-2023 - 0 Comments.
Bayer announced the expansion of its leading Fruits and Vegetables business to strawberries. With the acquisition of the strawberry assets of UK-based NIAB,
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Farm-to-consumer firm, Deep Rooted raises $12.5 MN in Series A from IvyCap & AccelÂ
22-Sep-2022 - 0 Comments.
Deep Rooted, India's leading farm-to-consumer (F2C) brand for fruits and vegetables has announced that it has raised US $12.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by IvyCap Ventures with participation from existing investors including Accel, Omnivore, and Mayfield. Â
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Bayer spotlights grower focus at Fruit Logistica 2022
11-Apr-2022 - 0 Comments.
Bayer presents the latest innovative and sustainable Fruits and Vegetables solutions to, on and beyond the farm at Fruit Logistica from April 5 to 7. The company spotlights products for the challenges facing growers, such as the tomato virus, the increasing request for organic and low residue produce and the need to lessen agriculture’s impact on the environment and respond to climate change.
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Govt promoting organic food under Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana
16-Feb-2022 - 0 Comments.
Organic foods are safe, healthy and free from chemical and pesticides. There has been shift in demand for organic products, especially fruit and vegetables in the cities due to increased awareness about organic food in consumers including younger generation.
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Otipy to procure 10,000 tonnes of fruits and vegetables in 2022 from Haryana based FPOs
15-Dec-2021 - 0 Comments.
Otipy, India’s fastest growing community group buying startup for fresh fruits and vegetables has announced partnership with Haryana government to procure 10,000 tonnes of fresh produce in 2022, from Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs).
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The growing popularity of exotic fruits, vegetables in Indian market
18-Nov-2021 - 0 Comments.
Indians have been enjoying exotic mushrooms, tangy kiwis, green olives, fresh broccoli, dragon fruit and many other items. These items have been gaining popularity in recent times among urban population and gourmet hotels, eateries.
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India agri ministry identified 10 globally popular exotic fruit crops, 10 indigenous fruit crops for promotion
17-Nov-2021 - 0 Comments.
Indian agriculture & farmers welfare minister Narendra Singh Tomar addressed a National Conference on “International Year of Fruits and Vegetables” organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations recently.
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Bayer to launch organic vegetable seeds portfolio enabling greater access to certified organic market
04-Oct-2021 - 0 Comments.
Bayer has announced that it will expand its vegetable seeds offerings under the new Vegetables by Bayer umbrella to include organically produced seed.
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Agri Minister presents the progress of Indian Agriculture in G-20 meeting
20-Sep-2021 - 0 Comments.
Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar said that the Government of India has emphasized re-introducing traditional food items including millet, other nutritious cereals, fruits and vegetables, fish, dairy, and organic products in the diet of the people.
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Bayer committed to increase fruit, vegetable consumption
22-Jul-2021 - 0 Comments.
Bayer reaffirmed its commitment to promoting increased worldwide consumption of fruits and vegetables with the announcement of new portfolio innovations and a business strategy for horticulture.
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BASF Venture Capital invests in Indian hydroponics firm UrbanKisaan
16-Jul-2021 - 0 Comments.
BASF Venture Capital GmbH (BVC) is investing in the Indian startup UrbanKisaan, which specializes in hydroponic cultivation of various types of vegetables, greens and herbs in tropical urban environments. This is BVC’s first investment in an early stage business focusing on India.
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KVK organized national webinar to enhance farmers’ income on vegetable nutrition security
24-Jun-2021 - 0 Comments.
The Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Tarn Taran Sahib, Punjab under the aegis of ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Ludhiana, Punjab organized a National Webinar on “Vegetables for Nutrition Security and Enhancing Farmers’ Income.”
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Assam CM lays foundation of the first Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence for Vegetables
02-Nov-2020 - 0 Comments.
Taking forward the ever-growing partnership in agriculture between Israel and India, Ambassador of Israel in India, Dr. Ron Malka visited Assam and together with Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal laid the foundation of the first Indo-Israeli Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Vegetables in the state today.
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India has 8186 cold storages facilities with a capacity of 37.42 million tonnes
27-Sep-2020 - 0 Comments.
As per available information, there are 8186 numbers of cold storages with capacity of 374.25 Lakh MT (37.44 million tonnes) is available in the country for storing perishable horticulture produce like fruits and vegetables.
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White Organic Agro to expand business in Maharashtra
09-Jun-2020 - 0 Comments.
Mumbai based company working in organic farming space, White Organic Agro Limited (BSE: 513713) has decided to expand its business of organic vegetables and fruits in Maharashtra.
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Ninjacart introduces foodprint to enable end to end food traceability
07-Jun-2020 - 0 Comments.
Ninjacart, India’s B2B fresh food supply chain company has launched FoodPrint, a complete food traceability infrastructure that captures the end-to-end footprint traceability of fruits and vegetables which moves from farm to home.
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Akola farmers groups sold INR 8.5 Cr worth of fruits, vegetables through direct marketing during lockdown period
29-Apr-2020 - 0 Comments.
Farmers groups in Maharashtra’s Akola district sold 850 metric tonnes of fruits and vegetables worth INR 8.5 crore during the lockdown period through direct marketing
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Manipur farmer growing vegetables using corrugated galvanized sheets
11-Apr-2020 - 0 Comments.
The vegetables seeds mostly are small in size. They are first sown in the nursery beds for better care and then transplanted in the fields
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Indian Railways operating 134 trains for transporting perishable commodities since CONVID-19
11-Apr-2020 - 0 Comments.
Indian Railways has identified 67 routes (134 trains) for Parcel Special Trains since the start of the lockdown for perishable commodities including fruits, vegetables, milk and dairy products and seeds for agriculture purpose
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Ninjacart offers to supply fruits, vegetables at subsidized prices to orphanages, slums
03-Apr-2020 - 0 Comments.
In the wake of the COVID -19 pandemic and the shortage of food essentials such as fruits and vegetables; Ninjacart - India’s largest fresh food supply chain company, announced the provision of essential food items to Orphanages, Old Age homes and Slum areas at subsidized rates, which will be much lesser than the on-going market rates.
