As per the research reports of ‘The Hindu’, only 9 crore farmer families have been identified during provisioning for PM-KISAN in the last one year while the Centre counted 14.5 crore farmer families in the Agriculture census reports. While cores of rupees are spent every year on food subsidy and on subsiding farm inputs, but there is no accurate record of these farmers or their total count. Moreover, even if one assumes the […]
Around 440 sugar mills in operation in India have produced 108.85 lakh tonnes of sugar as on 15 January 2020. In comparison, 511 sugar mills operating last year have produced 147.40 lakh tonnes during the same period. This is 38.55 lakh tonnes lower if we compare to last season’s output for the corresponding period. In […]
The country’s sugar production has fallen sharply by 30.22 per cent to 7.79 million tonnes in the first three months of current marketing year ending September, but ex-mill prices have remained stable so far, helping mills clear cane payment to farmers on time, ISMA said. However, sugar exports are happening at a good pace, Indian […]
India’s sugar production stood at 4.58 million tonnes till December 15 of the ongoing marketing year, down 35% from the year-ago period, owing to sharp fall in output in Maharashtra and Karnataka, industry body ISMA said. Sugar marketing year runs from October to September. Mills had manufactured 7.05 million tonnes of sugar in the same […]
The Cabinet has approved extension of norms for mandatory packaging of foodgrains and sugar in jute material for the Jute Year 2019-20. The decision taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, mandates that 100 per cent of the foodgrains and 20 per cent of sugar will be mandatorily […]
NAFED has issued an international tender to purchase and import up to 100,000 tonnes of corn (maize), European traders revealed to Reuters. The corn should be sourced from Ukraine, they said. The tender closes on December 3 with offers having to remain valid up to December 24. NAFED, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of […]
Global rice production in 2019-20 is expected to remain flat as a large harvest from India is expected to offset lower volumes from Indonesia and the Philippines, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said. “Global rice production is nearly unchanged this month, as a larger Indian crop is fully offset by smaller harvests for Indonesia […]
Pwer major Tata Power has decided to float a dedicated micro-grid arm to tap the renewable opportunity in the rural India in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation. The Rockefeller Foundation recently initiated the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty (GCEEP) programme to fast-track sustainable power solutions, investments, and partnerships globally over the next decade. This […]
Kaushalya Foundation, a non-government organisation (NGO) working for the welfare of farmers for over a decade, has set its eyes in promoting agri-entrepreneurs at the district levels in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. The NGO promoted by IIM Ahmedabad alumnus Kaushlendra Kumar, has grabbed attention in recent years for helping farmers in more than […]
Developed by G Hemaprabha and Bakshi Ram of Coimbatore-based Sugarcane Breeding Institute, the sugarcane Co-11015 variety can increase yield to 142 tonne petr hectare from about 100 tonne currently achieved through the Co-86032 variety. According to Ram, director of the institute, though the variety has been approved by Tamil Nadu it is yet to be […]
