Mangaluru: Areca Tea, established by researcher Nivedan Nempe has been awarded Best Agriculture Start-up Award by Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA). For the different medical benefits areca tea offers, the honour for this start-up, which had prior bagged the Make in India grant comes when gossipy titbits about areca nut being cancer-causing, has […]

Mangaluru : The Consortium of Pepper Growers Organisation has urged Union Minister of Commerce Suresh Prabhu to regulate and restrict import of black pepper into India and stop malpractices of re-exports from different origin by traders and exporters. Briefing reporters here on Tuesday, convener Konkodi Padmanabha said that a few exporters are importing pepper from […]