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Poor logistics, including a lack of infrastructure and trained manpower, keep modern branded food retail from actualising its potential in India, industry experts have told the country’s 7th Food and Grocery Forum India, in Mumbai.

India wastes Indian Rupees INR440 billion’s (USD6.95 billion) worth of fresh produce and grains annually because of poor distribution, according to Central Institute for Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology, in the Punjab.…

The Egyptian government has been mulling paying financial assistance to struggling state-owned textile factories, but ongoing political unease surrounding a key referendum has delayed such plans. In December, 2013, the government announced it was planning to work with banks to provide Egyptian Pounds EGP5 billion (USD725.7 million) to restructure indebted state-run textile manufacturers, which employ some 60,000 people.…

THE JAPANESE pharma sector may have previously lagged behind its counterparts in Europe and north America helping the very poorest people in the developing world, but the enthusiasm with which five of Japan’s biggest pharmaceutical companies have embraced the Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund indicates a sea change in policy.…

AUSTRALIA’S live cattle exports posted strong growth in 2013, with an 18% year-on-year increase in the 10 months from January to October. According to figures from Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA), Australia exported 650,830 head of cattle during this period, with nearly half (314,879) absorbed by the Indonesian market, Australia’s most import livestock export destination.…

THE EUROPEAN Commission has made available Euro EUR359 million this coming year for research projects which are designed to promote low-carbon energy technologies in Europe. A number of 22 calls for proposals targeting this issue were released on December 12 (2013) under the first round of funding opportunities offered by the new European Union (EU) research funding programme Horizon 2020, whose overall budget is around EUR80 billion, spanning 2014 to 2020.…

TURKEY’S tobacco leaf industry enjoyed a boom year in 2013, with total tobacco production for the 2012 crop (purchased in 2013) up 52.6% to 69,348 kilogrammes (kg), according to data from Turkey’s Tobacco and Alcohol Market Regulatory Authority (Tütün ve Alkol Piyasası Düzenleme Kurumu – TAPDK).…

SPANISH vine growers stand to receive nearly Euro EUR130 million in public support in 2014 to establish or replant vineyards, change grape varieties, or to adapt production to meet the requirements of particular regional wine brands. The sum approved in discussions between central and regional governments is a small increase on the 2013 allocation.…

With consumers becoming more aware of the environmental impact and social implications of the fashion and textile industries, Italian luxury textile manufacturer Canepa is addressing these issues in practical ways. Canepa, for instance, became a signed supporter of the Greenpeace Detox Campaign in September 2013.…

EUROPEAN carmakers, represented by the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) in Brussels, want the standard of fuels available for sale in Europe to be maintained beyond 2020, when a European Union (EU) law on fuel quality may be weakened or scrapped.…

A country famed for its beautiful traditional ‘batik,’ Malaysia is also home to a highly specialised textiles industry and these niche skills may prove vital for the country’s numerous finishing factories in what is shaping up to a challenging year. Economists are predicting a general slowing of the Malaysian economy, with average real gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the next five years estimated in Q4 2013 at 3.4%, revised down 0.2% from Q4 in 2012 (slightly slower than the Asian average of 3.7%), according to the Ifo Institute for Economic Research/International Chamber of Commerce’s World Economic Survey of business experts published in November last year.…