Kerala has sought ₹110 crore in urgent central assistance for its flood-hit farm sector. Agriculture Minister T Siddique has written to Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan requesting ₹100 crore for crop losses…
As of July 31, kharif sowing covered 894 lakh hectares, down 2.9% from 920 lakh hectares a year ago, according to agriculture ministry data reported by Livemint. The Hindu Business Line reports…
The textiles ministry has reoriented its cotton strategy from pest protection to productivity improvement, targeting a yield increase of at least 50 kg per hectare annually under the Rs 5,659 crore Cotton…
Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said the State has begun reversing decades of groundwater depletion through canal revival, watercourse restoration and recharge projects. The Hindu reported that 16,000 kilometres of watercourses…
Indian rice export prices held near a 10-month high this week, with the 5% broken parboiled variety quoted at $358-364 per tonne, as rising domestic paddy prices and El Niño fears tightened…
A Parliamentary Standing Committee has urged the Union government to create a permanent joint fertiliser command and monitoring cell involving the Departments of Fertilisers and Agriculture, the Railways and State governments. The…
India imports roughly 30 to 50 per cent of its finished fertiliser requirement, while its fertiliser subsidy bill has repeatedly exceeded Rs 1.75 lakh crore in recent years, according to the Deccan…
Farmers in western Rajasthan using integrated pest management and good agricultural practices are getting about 24% more than the market price for cumin, according to The Hindu BusinessLine. The approach also cut…
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has forecast farm-gate prices of Rs 37-38 per kg for good-quality brinjal during the upcoming harvest season, advising farmers to plan sowing accordingly. Its Domestic and Export Market…
India's monsoon deficit has fallen to 9% of the long-term average, its lowest since June 5, thanks to an average first week of August that brought 63.1 mm of rain. July had…
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