
The Cabinet has approved a Rs 37,216 crore subsidy for phosphatic and potassic fertilizers for Kharif 2025, ensuring stable prices…
Shift in rural incomes, with reduced dependence on pure cultivation, is an encouraging trend that helps pull out excess and…
The late sowing policy for kharif crops in Punjab and Haryana is a textbook example of a solution that ended…
For the first time agriculture ministry has prepared area estimates using Digital Crop Survey (DCS) data under the Digital Agriculture…
“While there has been an uptick in retail prices of pulses because of festive demand, wholesale prices have already started…
Agencies are aiming to buy 72.23 MT of paddy (48.51 MT of rice equivalent) in the current kharif season against…
Overall sowing of kharif crops such as paddy, pulses, oilseeds, coarse cereals and sugarcane have been up 1.5% on year…
The overall rainfall this season since June 1 till Friday has been 6.4% above the benchmark long period average or…
At 109.66 million hectare, kharif sowing of paddy, pulses, oilseeds, coarse cereals, cotton and sugarcane was up 2.2% on year,…
In the southern peninsula and central India, monsoon rainfall has been 23.4% and 18.9% more than the benchmark so far…
An agriculture ministry official said that sowing of crops is likely to continue for another fortnight and may cross the…
Till Monday, 2024, the area under paddy at 33.17 MH was up 4.2% on year. The normal sown area of…
Due to adequate rainfall in the eastern regions in the last one week paddy sowing in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Bihar,…
Above-normal rainfall not only boosts kharif production but also ensures sufficient moisture for the ensuing rabi season.
Brisk sowing of pulses & oilseeds allays inflation concerns
CPI inflation is expected to ease further in July and August 2024 after it fell to 4.75 per cent in…