FSSAI has extended the deadline to comply with the labelling provisions for frozen desserts or confectionery products under the food additive category by six months. In October 2017, the country’s apex food regulator had issued a gazette not ...

The GST rate has been reduced from 28% to 18% on refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating and freezing equipment including water coolers, milk coolers, refrigerating equipment for leather industry, and ice cream freezers.

Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali is planning to foray into the Khadi and frozen vegetables market with an investment of Rs 10,000 crore. The company has already initiated a pilot launch of a few frozen vegetables like pea ...

The government is considering incentivising exports of milk products, adding milk to mid-day meal rations as well as reducing GST and increasing import duty on certain products as it seeks ways to ensure better returns for dairy farmers. Railway m ...

The Government of India and the Government of Tamil Nadu will provide A$300 million over the next three years to develop infrastructure for deep sea fishing off the coast of Tamil Nadu, opening up opportunities for Australian organisations to supp ...

Indian seafood exports may show lower growth this fiscal as shrimp prices continue to remain low and cautious farmers go slow on production. While prices of shrimp, which dominates the seafood export basket, are down by 20% from last year, fear of ...

By Purushothaman Ravichandran
President, Danfoss India and
Chairman, CII National Task Force on Post Harvest and Logistics (earlier named CII Task Force on Cold Chain Development)

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By Harshal Surange and Arvind Surange

REFCOLD
The Indian refrigeration and cold chain industry is about to witness a revolution of sorts. ISHRAE is now taking a deep plunge into this sect ...

CIOReview India, in its April 24 issue, has published a list of “20 Most Promising SaaS Solution Providers 2018”, which includes Pureblu – provider of a SaaS platform for HVAC&R service. Softwareas- a-Solution (SaaS) applicat ...

The Refrigeration & Air-Conditioning Trades Association (RATA) has a large number of channel partners and other stakeholders as its members. RATA has launched an initiative to create an awareness of VRF technology among channel partners, train ...