Food Category
Area under pulses continues to remain low in the current kharif season, raising fears about trade-restrictive measures like imposition of stock holding limits to ward off rise in prices. A rise in prices of pulses had forced the government to put stock limits on July 2, a step not in conformity with the free-trade concept […]
The United Planters’ Association of Southern India (UPASI), the apex body of planters in southern India, said that the Tea Board of India’s directive to manufacturers to ensure mandatory sale of 50% of the total tea manufactured through public auctions will be counterproductive given the wide divergence between auction and retail prices, reports Financial Express. […]
The Spices Board, the Rubber Board and the Digital University of Kerala shared an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to use modern techniques to generate spatial models of soil nutrients in the cardamom tracts and to develop an android-based mobile application for cardamom growers to enable site-specific, need based fertiliser recommendation. D Sathiyan, secretary, Spices Board, […]
The National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED) is well on track to meet its target of procuring onions from Nashik for the Centre’s buffer stock. According to some senior officials from the federation, it is likely to complete the purchases during the next fortnight. The agency has procured around 1.4 lakh tonne of the 2 […]
The Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority, (APEDA) has decided to brand and market organic foods from Ladakh in order to increase agricultural exports and local farmers’ incomes. The endeavour will be carried out in collaboration with Union territory officials as well as the Defence Institute of High-Altitude Research (DIHAR). “Recognized areas of […]
About 27 pesticides are likely to be banned by the central government, the union minister for agriculture and farmers’ welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar, announced in Rajya Sabha. The government has already appointed an expert committee in this regard. At the same time, the Standing Committee on Agriculture has invited public opinion on Pesticide Management Bill 2020 and the bill is under […]
India’s shrimp exports to China have been witnessing a sharp decline, and that has made shrimps cheaper in the domestic markets by 30-40 per cent since March 2021. Given that China is the second largest purchaser of Indian shrimps after the USA, it has impacted exports quite severely. According to shrimp exporters, since China was […]
In an effort to check the rising prices and boost the domestic supply of lentils, the central government has reduced the import duty on masur dal to zero and also halved the Agriculture Infrastructure Development Cess on the lentil to 10 per cent. A notification for the same was tabled in both houses of the […]
The government has procured a record 433.32 lakh tonnes of wheat so far this marketing year at minimum support price (MSP) for Rs 85,581 crore. “Current marketing season RMS 2021-22 has concluded in most of wheat procuring States and till now (up to July 22) a quantity of 433.32 lakh tonnes of wheat has been […]
India’s coffee exports have seen a steady decline in the last decade amid growing need for value addition across multiple stages of coffee processing globally and rising demand for specialty coffees, according to a report by global trade finance company Drip Capital, quoting data from Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT). India exported nearly USD […]
