US-based food company General Mills is planning to more than double its organic acreage sourcing for ingredients, to reach its goal of 250,000 acres by 2019. The increase in acreage is to meet the growing demand for natural and organic ...
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North Carolina State University (NCSU) has discovered a new phase of boron nitride (Q-BN) that has potential applications for both manufacturing tools and electronic displays. The researchers have also developed a new technique for creating ...
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Ford is conducting the industry's first autonomous vehicle tests in snow-covered environments – a major step in the company’s plan to bring fully autonomous vehicles to millions of customers worldwide. Unlike other major ...
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Kale and coconut oil may have been the latest food trend in 2015 but according to a new study by Appetite Communications and Dietitian Connection, these foods are on the way out in 2016. The survey results, based on analysis from more ...
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Physicists from the University of Exeter in collaboration with the ICFO Institute in Barcelona have used a ground-breaking new technique to trap light at the surface of the wonder material graphene using only pulses of laser light. ...
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The United Nations have declared 2016 to be the Year of Pulses or as Australians refer to them, legumes. Australia is amongst 40 countries participating in the initiative which will launch globally on 6 January 2016. Australia’s ...
When Chris Carlen developed an enthusiasm for flashlights containing high-power LEDs, he didn’t anticipate that his hobby interest would lead to the creation of a new, high-speed LED driver delivering lighting performance that exceeds ...
Tags: Sandia, LED Pulser, lighting
India’s decision to remove stock limit exemptions for pulses held by Indian importers amidst rising prices of the commodity has become a cause of concern for the US. On October 18, India cut down the permissible limit of pulse ...
According to the latest cotton report of the Indian Cotton Federation (ICF), Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) has managed to get a good response to their e-auctions recently. “Mills are buying for their near future requirements and ...
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The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has proposed new permissible lead limits for canned fruits and vegetables or packaged pulses, wheat, and meat products. The proposed amendments to the Food Safety and Standards ...
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Most of the cotton growing states like Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and parts of Maharashtra and Karnataka have started getting good rainfall, which has led to farmers beginning sowing of cotton. “CCI has sold nearly 1.5 ...
Tags: Propel Cotton Sowing, Textile
Researchers in South Korea have used electrochemical potentiostatic activation (EPA) to alter the hydrogen content in p-type gallium nitride (GaN) layers with a view to improved performance of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) [June Key Lee et ...
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In a talk and a tutorial at CLEO 2015 (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics) in San Jose, CA, USA (10-15 May), a team led by Paul Crump from FBH (Ferdinand-Braun-Institut, Leibniz-Institut fur Hoechstfrequenztechnik) of Berlin, Germany ...
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Harvest Specialty Mills has raised funding to build a grain cleaning, milling and packaging facility in Greater Toronto Area, Canada. The C$2.6m ($2.12m) funding will be invested in a 21,000ft2 Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points ...
Croatian food company Podravka has agreed to purchase 51.55% regular shares of Slovenia’s food producer Zito for a total amount of €33m. The Croatian firm will pay €180.1 per share and the acquisition is subject to ...
Tags: Podravka, food producer Zito