This exercise, throws up valuable insights into the socio-economic status and living conditions of rural households. We identify five major…
Falling crop prices isn’t good news for seed firms, given implications on demand for their product.
Domestic private dairies, however, are feeling the pinch.
In Maharashtra, dairies are getting cow milk delivered to the plants at Rs 20-21 per litre. If they procure it…
Till hardly a decade ago, Boduram Yadav knew jau (barley) as mainly something you fed to cows, buffaloes or camels.…
Chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian counters criticism of the Budget having ‘cut’ welfare schemes and not hiked capital expenditure enough,…
Post-reform India has had three gamechanging budget. Will Arun Jaitley be the fourth?
Shortage: Imports surged only after rabi planting started in November
It isn’t GDP growth rates alone that have got a boost from the government’s new series of national accounts.
Consumers save on fuel, govt on subsidies; both left with more money for better spends
With this decision, Maharashtra has become the fourth state after Punjab, Delhi and Andhra Pradesh to approve open field trials…
The National Food Security Act’s (NFSA) coverage will come down from roughly 67 per cent to…
After petrol and diesel, the Narendra Modi government is looking next to deregulate urea. In the works is a three-year…
Commercial dairying is a big draw for community in northern Gujarat…
RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan had linked inflation to wages; this may set the stage for rate cuts
For the first time in a decade, India has experienced deficient rainfall in both the main south-west as well as…
Between 2009-10 and 2013-14, Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation’s turnover has gone up from Rs 8,005 crore to Rs 18,143…
Only per cent of rural households dependent on farming as main income source, says a NSSO survey.
