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This report explores India’s Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional (HRI) sector with an overview of the industry’s growth, key players, and market trends. Key factors driving expansion include urbanization, rising incomes, and an increasingly consumer...

FAS New Delhi expects India’s peanut oilseed production to rise by 18 percent in marketing year (MY) 2024/2025 and reach 7.2 million metric tons (MMT) due to higher market prices, an increased planting area of 5.6 million hectares, and the use of high-yielding varieties that produced higher yields.

On November 5, the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare published a marketing year 2024/25 production forecast at the lowest level in five years, at 23.4 million 480 lb. bales on an area of 11.4 million hectares.

FSSAI amended the Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011, related to the list of food additives covered under Table 1 of Appendix A.

Post’s MY 2015/16 milled rice production forecast has been lowered to 100 million metric tons (MMT) on lower yields due to below normal 2015 monsoon.

The MY 2015/16 production estimate is 28.5 million 480 lb. bales while planted area is finalized at 11.8 million hectares.

FSSAI amended the Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011, to include pullulan as a food additive.

FSSAI amended the Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, Toxins and Residues) Regulations, 2011, to update standards for various food contaminants.

FSSAI amended the Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011, related to the list of food additives covered under Appendix A.

FSSAI amended the Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, Toxins and Residues) Regulations, 2011, related to the presence of naturally occurring toxic substances (NOTS) in some foods and beverages.

FSSAI amended the Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Food Additives) Regulations, 2011, related to FSSAI’s standards for artificial sweeteners.

FSSAI amended the Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, Toxins and Residues) Regulations, 2011, regarding standards for levels of chromium present in gelatine.