In what could delay the coming year’s wheat procurement operations, the Punjab government has…
Puts tricyclazole under import tolerance norms, allows residue up to 3 ppm.
Rice cultivation through flooded cultivation method…
Government agencies till Monday have procured more than 11.4 million tonne of rice in the current marketing season…
The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has paid more than R7,500 crore in the last fiscal to states as taxes…
India’s Basmati rice exports in the current fiscal are expected to decline due to sluggish demand from Iran…
The government has identified 46 million hectare of agricultural land spread across 122 districts that is likely to be adversely…
Exports up 9% to R6,962 crore in April-September
FCI is holding roughly two-and-a-half times the amount of wheat and rice it needs.
The National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), commonly known as the national gene bank…
US-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is part of a global network which looks into agriculture and food security…
Sufficient availability of wheat with private traders coupled with states’ inability to lift rice meant…
Ministry seeks significant increase in foodgrain stocks for July and October…
By Jan, the buffer will be 35 mt more than what is required…
Despondency is writ large on Kuldeep Singh’s face as the boli (auction) for the paddy…
A heavy burden of taxes and levies, exacerbated by inter-state trade disparities in taxation…
The govt aims at selling 10 million tonne wheat from FCI stocks in the open market by March 2015. FCI…
According to sources, Cabinet secretariat has also discussed the issue with the shipping ministry and the government would take up…
