IFE Poland Opens With First-Ever Conference on Indian Food & Wine

Central and Eastern Europe's premier food, drink and hospitality trade exhibition opens on Wednesday with a conference on the country's processed foods and wine industries organised jointly by APEDA and the Indian Wine Academy  ... more

India's Café Market Growing At 10-12% Every Year

The US$150 million-plus organised coffee retail business in India, the world's biggest tea producer, is coming into its own, says Priyanka Bhardwaj in an in-depth article in Asia Times Online (www.atimes.com). Coffee consumption has risen from 55,000 tonnes to 80,000 tonnes after decades   ... more

Sula to Step Up Production to 1.5m Bottles

Sula Vineyards has set a target of manufacturing 1.5 million bottles in fiscal 2006-07, reports www.newkerala.com quoting a Press Trust of India dispatch. In the previous financial year, the company produced 1.1 million bottles.Sula's CEO Rajiv Samant believes the target is realistic  ... more

Exim Policy Muddle Helps Soybean Oil Speculators: Sify.com

Lambasting the Exim Policy changes announced by the Commerce Ministry, which has made pre-import clearance mandatory for genetically modified foods, a www.sify.com editorial has hinted that the India's Federal Government is playing into the hands of certain influential sections  ... more

UK Professor Raises Alarm On High Salt Intake

The food industry must take responsibility for the continued excessive consumption of salt, which has reached an unacceptably high level of 10-12 gm per adult in the western world, Prof. Graham McGregor of St George's University, London, told the Vitafoods conference in Geneva.  ... more