AGRI-BIZ & COMMODITIES (The Hindu) RICE `Designer rice varieties must reach farmers' Designer rice varieties, fortified with iron, zinc and vitamins, can help solve the perennial problem of nutrition deficiencies, according Prof Swapan K. Datta, Senior Agribiotechnology scientist from the Kolkata University. Prof Datta, who was ... [News Source]

From seeds to sickness. The story of how spinach put Lisa Brott in the hospital traces a complex journey from field to table that reveals the failure of the nation's produce industry to devise a reliable system for keeping one of its most popular products safe. [News Source]