ED conducts raids at rice mills in West Bengal's Nadia

Oct 11, 2023

The raids are underway at ESSSGE Rice Mill and GK Agro Food Production, a rice mill and flour mill located on the Shantipur Bypass...

Govt bans export of broken rice; imposes 20 pc duty on exports of non-Basmati rice

Sep 09, 2022

New Delhi [India], September 9 : The government has banned the exports of broken rice and imposed a 20 per cent duty on exports...

Madhya Pradesh condemns Punjab's opposition to GI tag for basmati rice to state

Aug 06, 2020

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Aug 6 : The Madhya Pradesh government condemned Punjab's opposition to the Geographical Indication (GI) tag for basmati rice being...

Centre planning to reduce import of edible oil by increasing production, awareness of rice bran oil: Food Corporation of India

Dec 23, 2021

New Delhi [India], December 23 : With the aim of reducing the country's import dependency for edible oil, which is about 60 per cent...

India introduces additional safeguards on basmati rice to prevent regular rice exports

Aug 27, 2023

India has introduced additional safeguards on exports of basmati rice so as to prevent exports of non-basmati white rice -- which is presently under...

Govt comes out with guidelines for ethanol production from sugar, grain-based feedstock

Nov 13, 2022

These guidelines pertain to the production of ethanol by sugar mills and distilleries from B-Hy, C-Hy molasses, sugarcane juice, sugar and sugar syrup, foodgrains...