ICAR develops new products

LUDHIANA: Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has developed a new health drink based on Beetroot which can be used by all and sundry.

Ludhiana based Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering & Technology (CIPHET), a subsidiary of ICAR developed the new drink.

ICAR presently engaged in efforts to standardize the process for making beetroot powder that can be further utilized for making various health products.

Reconstituted beetroot powder in water is one of the drinks which are useful for all adults, even in case of degenerative diseases conditions. Read more

CanGro Foods – produces fruit and vegetables product

CanGro Foods – produces fruit and vegetables product. CanGro Foods, which produces fruit and vegetables in cans and jars under the Aylmer, Del Monte and Ideal names, plans to sell or shut two processing plants in Ontario, jeopardizing almost 300 permanent jobs.

CanGro, created two years ago when two American private equity firms took over five Canadian brands from Kraft Canada, said Tuesday the plants in Exeter, north of London, and St. Davids, in the Niagara region, “will be sold or cease operations by March 31.”

The company said 268 hourly paid employees and 27 salaried staff members could lose their jobs, along with an unspecified number of seasonal workers, if a buyer isn’t found.

“CanGro will now shift to outsourcing its canned vegetable and fruit requirements,” David Hoyles, vice-president of operations, said in a brief statement. Read more

Price stability: Homeopathy won’t work

In a similar article published in a couple of national dailies more than a year ago I made some suggestions for lowering prices. During that time the government changed commerce ministers several times, but things worsened instead of improving. Then, I had forecast that even a change of government wouldn’t stop price hike unless some fundamental changes were made.

My suggestions for minimising the rate of price hike were:

(a) Re-introduction of the rationing system in the urban areas, especially for rice, wheat, edible oil and sugar. Read more

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Major Net Energy Gain From Switchgrass-based Ethanol

Switchgrass grown for biofuel production produced 540 percent more energy than needed to grow, harvest and process it into cellulosic ethanol, according to estimates from a large on-farm study by researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Results from the five-year study involving fields on farms in three states highlight the prairie grass’ potential as a biomass fuel source that yields significantly more energy than is consumed in production and conversion into cellulosic ethanol, said Ken Vogel, a U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service geneticist in UNL’s agronomy and horticulture department. Read more

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