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 …

Just why are tomato prices going north? Dalwai Report offers clues

Issues like cold chain, modern pack houses and pooling points, along with transport arrangements from villages have not been given much attention,…

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

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

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