The industry is expecting a shortage of the lentil and has urged the Centre to remove quantitative curbs on urad.
20 Jan 2020 1:52 AM
Farmers with land up to two hectares will be given up to Rs 8,000 per hectare as compensation for damages to the Kharif crop.
17 Nov 2019 4:17 AM
The production of coarse cereals, however, has been estimated higher at 32 million tonne from 30.99 million tonne.
24 Sep 2019 1:28 AM
Foodgrains production stood at 141.71 million tonnes (MT) in the kharif season of the 2018-19 crop year (July-June).
23 Sep 2019 4:48 PM
The second estimate of Kharif crop too has been tad lower by 2.83 per cent than 140.73 million tonnes of food grains produced in the year 2017-18.
08 Feb 2019 1:34 AM
Onion is being sold at over Rs 50 per kg in the national capital, Mumbai and Kolkata, respectively.
11 Jan 2018 2:41 PM
In cash crops, production of cotton, oil seeds and jute is estimated to fall and that of sugarcane to go up.
25 Sep 2017 3:56 PM
So far this season 95.8 per cent of the full-season area has been cultivated -- largely similar to that of last year.
28 Aug 2017 5:21 PM