Manufacturers of seeds have requested the government to ensure transportation of key farm inputs so that there is no roadblock due to the measures being taken to handle corona virus. Since the next three months are critical for farmers to prepare for kharif season, the seed industry has sought government’s help to ensure there is […]
The Centre may soon offload imported onions at a highly subsidised rate of Rs 22-23/kg, down around 60 per cent from the current offered rate, as it apprehends rotting of the perishable kitchen item at ports. The central government is currently offering imported onions to state governments at an average landed cost of Rs 58/kg […]
The country’s kharif food production could be much lower than the Centre’s first advance estimate of a marginal fall. Heavy post-monsoon showers are a key reason. The production of coarse grains, pulses, oil seeds and sugarcane is expected to decline in the summer season of 2019-20 due to late monsoon and erratic and heavy rains […]
Area sown to wheat, the main rabi crop, touched 27.8 million hectare (ha) so far in this season, about 90 per cent of the normal sowing area under this crop, according to latest agriculture ministry data. The area sown to wheat crop is higher than 25 million hectare covered in the year-ago period. Currently, farmers […]
India’s peanut production will reach 6.2 million tonnes in 2019, up 31 per cent from 2018, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in its World Agricultural Production report. This 31 per cent increase in production is due to ideal weather conditions in the main peanut producing area of Kutch, Gujarat, the report said. […]
After placing orders from Egypt, state-owned trading firm MMTC, which is importing onion on the behalf of the Centre, has placed an order of 11,000 tonnes of edible bulb from Turkey as part of its efforts to boost domestic supply and ease soaring prices. This is the second import order placed by the MMTC. The […]
Public sector trading firm MMTC, which has been tasked to import onion on behalf of the Centre to cool prices, has contracted to import 6,090 tonnes from Egypt, and the edible bulb will be supplied to states in a price range of Rs 52-60 per kg. Last week, the Union Cabinet decided to import 1.2 […]
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 […]
Private traders have placed orders for importing onions and at least 1,000 tonnes are expected by month end, which will help ease retail prices that is still ruling high at over Rs 60/kg, a senior government official said. The retail prices of onion had soared to Rs 100/kg a week back in the national capital, […]
The Agriculture Ministry on Wednesday extended relaxed fumigation norms for imported onions up to December 31, in a bid to improve domestic supply and check prices that have skyrocketed up to Rs 100 per kg, PTI reports. On November 6 this year, the ministry had liberalised fumigation provisions under the Plant Quarantine (PQ) Order, 2003 […]
