The Reliance Infrastructure-led BSES discom has signed a 510-MW solar and hybrid power agreement with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), a move that will help provide green and clean electricity to Delhi at “economical rates”, said a company spokesperson. BSES discoms, BRPL, and BYPL are the first in Delhi to ink an agreement […]
Hot and spicy red chillies continue to top the export basket of spices from India. And China emerges as the largest importer of Indian red chillies, especially the fiery Teja variety, as it consumes large quantities of the pungent spice. In FY21, India exported 6,01,500 tonnes of red chillies worth about Rs 8,430 crore. The […]
NTPC Renewables and Talettutayi Solar Projects Nine (SolarArise) were declared winners of the Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Limited’s (RUMSL) auction for 450 megawatts (MW). The RUMSL tender for solar projects to be incorporated at the Shajapur Solar Park in Madhya Pradesh was oversubscribed by 5.8 gigawatts (GW) having received a massive response from bidders. A […]
The long-grained aromatic Basmati rice, grown in the foothills of the Himalayas and in the Indo-Gangetic belt and in some areas of Pakistan, finds the itself in the thick of a stormy tussle between the two neighbours over the right to protected geographical identification (PGI) trademark in the European Union. “In 2018, India had filed […]
Indian consumers have been increasingly buying grocery online in a trend that is now being dubbed irreversible since the coronavirus pandemic piloted the country’s first lockdown last year, shuttering supermarket and neighbourhood mom-and-pop stores. The convenience of a few clicks on laptops or smartphones from the safety of home that gets groceries delivered to the […]
Encouraged by higher prices, the production of natural rubber in India has upped a bit in the 2020-21 fiscal. The Rubber Board’s early estimates indicate an increase of about 0.4 percent to 7.15 lakh tonnes from a year ago. KN Raghavan, Rubber Board chairman and executive director attributed the rise in production during the last […]
Go easy on the oil when rustling up your favourite curry, pasta, or pan-fried noodles as the prices of edible oils are at an all-time high and still climbing. Concerned about retail prices of edible oils soaring to their highest levels in over a decade in May 2021, and at a time when consumers are […]
Assam’s tea industry, yet to recover from 2020’s Covid-19 lockdown, may witness a 40 per cent crop deficit in the first five months of this year due to poor rainfall across the state. A study carried out by the North Eastern Tea Association (NETA) on tea production loss owing to a prolonged drought-like situation in […]
Australia might have been hurt badly after China shut doors to it coal, but India has emerged as a saviour buying a lot more than it did from Canberra earlier as demand in Asia’s third-largest economy rises. India and China have been the largest consumers of Australian coking coal, buying about 25 per cent and […]
Fundamental reforms in agri-food system is the need of the hour if production has to be increased to feed India’s growing population that is soon set to surpass that of China, a report submitted to a UN conference said. India’s reforms need to focus on lowering transaction costs to achieve marketing efficiency in order to […]
