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.
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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.
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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.
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India food chain in deep change
Image: People buy grocery at an open air vegetable and fruit market in Ahmedabad.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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