Tourism-favourite coastal destinations—from Goa to Kerala to Chennai—now ensure that even the coconut water boom generates livelihoods rather than waste.

Stiff competition from established processors, exploitation by Tanzanian brokers, poor quality products, lack of business skills, markets, value addition technologies are among major obstacles, ...

Simon Gatagia feeds a handful of dry maize stalks in a large bowl on the rear end of a grinding machine. He intends to use the ground maize stalks as the base material for a 70kg bag of dairy feeds he ...