As Nigeria battles with rising malnutrition, TechnoServe, through its Millers for Nutrition initiative and in collaboration ...

FEDERAL Government is partnering international agencies on fortification of rice with vitamins and minerals, it was learnt. This is part of Federal Government’s effort at scaling up fortification of ...

The government on Friday announced temporary discontinuation of rice fortification under Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) and other social schemes citing that prolonged storage of ...

The government says that this decision of temporary discontinuation of fortification process does not entail any reduction in foodgrain entitlements Centre has decided to temporarily discontinue the ...

Lagos is positioning itself to tap into the surging global fortified rice market, which analysts project will reach $36.6 billion by 2033, up from $20.8 billion in 2023. The rapid expansion is driven ...

Food regulator FSSAI today said the availability of fortified milk and edible oil has improved but the progress is slow in fortification of wheat flour, rice and salt. Fortification means deliberately ...

As the Union Food Ministry decided to temporarily discontinue the process of rice fortification “until a more effective mechanism for delivery of nutrients to beneficiaries is identified”, activists ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. DHAKA – Poor rural villagers in Bangladesh are now receiving rice fortified with essential vitamins ...