Royal DSM, a health and nutrition solutions company, has opened a fortified rice kernel manufacturing plant near Hyderabad. An ISO 22000: 2018 compliant facility, it targets to produce 3,600 tonnes of ...

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is looking to set quality standards for machines that make fortified rice kernels, as the country aims to tackle malnutrition by stepping up efforts to provide ...

The central government’s new instructions regarding the production and supply of FRK (Fortified Rice Kernel) rice have raised the hackles of Punjab rice shellers. Workers winnow paddy in Amritsar.

As many as 269 districts in 27 States have started distributing fortified rice under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS), achieving a 100% target set for Phase II by March 2023 in the Rice ...

Fortified rice kernels — the micronutrient-rich granules needed to produce fortified rice for public distribution schemes — have begun to trickle in at rice mills across the Cauvery delta in the past ...