Harsimrat Kaur Badal

The food processing sector has attracted FDI to the tune of US $183 million in last two months, Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said on Thursday. "This year in the last two months (May-June 2017) alone, 183 million dollars has...

The Government is eyeing an investment worth US $10 billion in next five years in the food processing sector, Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal said. "We have seen 40 per cent growth in FDI in multi-branded...

Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has urged UK companies to participate in India's food processing value chain, saying a market worth US $600 billion is waiting for the British firms. According to a PTI report: The Union Cabinet Minister of...

The Government will soon clear the US retail giant Amazon's proposed US $500 million investment in retail of food products in India, Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said. "There was some delay due to abolition of FIPB. It (Amazon's...

US retail giant Amazon's proposed US $500 million investment in retail of food products in India would soon get official nod, an official said. According to a PTI report: The proposal was pending before the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB)...

Union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has taken up with the finance ministry the issue of high GST rate proposed on some products like pickles, murabba and papad and sought a review of the same. According to a PTI...

The Government's allowing 100 per cent FDI in domestic trading of food products has yielded results, Food Processing Industries Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal has said, while hinting the Central Government is looking at permitting FDI in non-food items, along...

The Government is moving ahead with further opening of retail sector to foreign investments, and detailed deliberations in this regard were held in the finance ministry. According to a PTI report: The commerce and industry ministry may soon approach the...

Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal said that the food sector is set for a quantum jump in the country with the Union Cabinet allocating Rs 6,000 crore for restructuring Scheme for Agro-Marine Processing and Development of Agro-Processing clusters (SAMPADA). In...

With Indians reporting high rate of urinary tract infections, the world's top cranberry producer Ocean Spray is eying the huge Indian market for its products. An egg-shaped dark red fruit native to North America, cranberry is a natural remedy or...