Centre draws flak from Parliamentary panel over state of onion silos

The Standing Committee also noted that 51,582.74 million tonnes (MT) of onion had been damaged due to spoilage in the last three years

The cold supply chain can’t reach everywhere — that’s a big problem for equitable COVID-19 vaccination

Indian researchers are using an engineered protein fragment that is tolerant of high temperatures

Punjab's cold storage owners struggle to stay in business

As potato farmers abandon their produce in cold stores for over a year, storage owners are paying from their pockets to dispose old stock and …

No buyers, shut units: How COVID-19 hit farmers in Bengal’s pineapple hub

Several in Bidhannagar in Bengal’s Darjeeling district resorting to distress sales to pay off loans; others migrating to other cities to …

Tomato wholesale prices dipped by 54% this year

With 78 per cent dip, Maharashtra recorded the maximum drop in prices followed by Gujarat and Karnataka

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 13, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

15 states yet to use funds of Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana

The Centre's flagship agriculture scheme’s 75 per cent released funds lie unspent

Sustainable cold chains can address climate, food crises: UNEP & FAO report

Governments, cold chain stakeholders should collaborate to adopt systems approach, develop national cooling action plans

Slumping potato prices hit farmers, but worse is yet to come

Farmers and cold storage owners pay the price of producing and storing bumper crops as wholesale prices dip by 39-50 per cent in December

Union Budget 2020-21: Big plans for storage facilities

Promise of cold storage capacity at villages, warehousing at blocks, refrigerated rail coaches to reduce losses

Delhi High Court questions Centre on junk food

Asks it to file affidavit in six weeks on whether it has framed policy to ban it in schools

West Bengal bans ammonia use as refrigerant

State pollution board’s decision comes after three gas leaks hit Kolkata

Better roads must for food security

Sound investment on infrastructure could curb hunger by 2030

Greening food transport

Cold storage trucks are important to ferry food. A new British technology would use liquid air to power truck refrigeration units. But is it …