Drought in parts of the country will not lead to any farm crisis and India is headed for a bumper…

As the government gears up for food security law, the need for grains has never been so crucial.

Global farm commodities plummeted on Friday on anticipations of swelling inventories following a bright picture painted by the US Department…

India is well on course to reaping a record grain harvest for a second successive year on higher planting of…

Finished steel production in India, the world?s fourth-largest producer, rose 7.5% between April and December from a year before to…

India?s rice exports may soar to a record six million tonne this fiscal as the country ended a more than…

Two apparently unrelated pieces of news captured the fall and rise of crude in the past one year.

The food ministry has granted one more month to sugar mills and factories to apply for permits against an export…

India?s basmati rice shipments may rise only marginally to around 2.7 million tonnes in 2011-12 despite a bumper harvest and…

Poll-bound Uttar Pradesh?s diktat to mills to advance cane crushing in 2011-12 even before the plant fully matures ? aimed…

Bharatiya Janata Party President Nitin Gadkari has sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh?s intervention in firming up the ethanol pricing policy…

The finance ministry has rejected a proposal to make a cess on natural rubber cenvatable to allow bulk consumers such…

Cotton arrivals in the domestic market have crashed by around 25% until December 11, raising concerns that the country?s fibre…

A major congestion at two of the key ports has hurt soyameal shipments by India, the world?s fourth-largest supplier

The finance ministry?s proposal to introduce a stamp duty of R300 on commodity derivatives with a transaction value of R1…

The agriculture ministry is favouring another hike, by around 27%, in the minimum support price of cotton for 2011-12

Textiles mills hit by high raw material costs and slump in key export markets could soon receive a helping hand…