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India food chain in deep change!

Last updated on: June 21, 2011 12:45 IST


A growing urban middle-class is consuming more higher-value, high protein foods, which is stoking food price inflation and changing business and farm models in rural India.

Image: A Kashmiri vendor selling watermelons is seen through a hole in an ice block during a hot summer day in Srinagar.

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India food chain in deep change


Image: A farmer spreads fertiliser on his field in Satara district, about 285 km south of Mumbai.

Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: Labourers load harvested sugarcane onto a trailer before delivery to a sugar refinery in village of Gove, in Satara district.

Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: A boy sits on cages holding chickens at a wholesale poultry market in New Delhi.

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India food chain in deep change


Image: A labourer pulls a basket to fill it with mangoes from a supply truck at a wholesale fruit market on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.

Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: People buy grocery at an open air vegetable and fruit market in Ahmedabad.

Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: A worker stands next to a production line at the Britannia biscuit factory in New Delhi.

Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: A customer examines a packet of cheese in the processed dairy food section of a supermarket in Mumbai.

Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: Farmer Ajit Govind Sable displays harvested red capsicums which were grown inside a poly house in Satara district.

Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: A cook slides a pizza onto a serving plate in the kitchen at a Pizza Hut restaurant in Mumbai.

Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: Farmer Ajit Govind Sable walks down an aisle inside his poly house, where he grows capsicums and chillies, in Satara.

Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: A trolley laden with fresh and processed food sits parked in an aisle as customers shop at a supermarket in Mumbai.

Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: Labourers sort through a batch of potatoes laid out for grading at the Gultekadi wholesale market in Pune.

Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: A labourer works on a heap of wheat inside a grain-sorting unit at Sanand in Gujarat.

Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: Workers pack ice cream cones inside an ice cream factory on the outskirts of Ahmedabad.

Photograph: Amit Dave/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: A boy, with his face covered with an empty onion sack to protect him from flies, takes a nap in an open air vegetable market in New Delhi.

Photograph: Parivartan Sharma/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: A farmer spreads fertiliser on his field in Satara district in Maharashtra.

Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: People eat breakfast at Mani's Lunch Home in Mumbai.

Photograph: Vivek Prakash/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: A woman farmer carries cucumbers from her field to sell in the markets in Allahabad.

Photograph: Jitendra Prakash/Reuters

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India food chain in deep change


Image: A worker prepares snacks inside a workshop in Kolkata.

Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters