Indonesia is expected to soon open the doors for Indian sugar, according to traders. Although sugar export has picked up this season, it is still not enough to meet the target set up by the government of India. This has prompted the government to issue new guidelines directing the reallocation of export quotas from mills that haven’t […]
Maharashtra has set a record of making payments to farmers this season. Mills in the state have paid around 84.14 per cent of the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) dues to farmers totalling Rs 4,886.70 crore for the 2019-20 season. Around 15.87 per cent of the cane arrears, amounting to Rs 921.61 crore, still remain […]
Inaugurating the UN World Pulses Day celebrations in New Delhi, Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar said that initiatives of the Government in increasing pulses production in the country yielded positive results and Government is committed to provide remunerative prices to farmers for the produce, a release by Press Information Bureau […]
The country’s dairy sector hopes to see up to Rs 60,000 crore of new investment and creation of 10 million jobs in five years, in the wake of the Union Budget proposals, reports Business Standard. The finance minister had announced a target of doubling the annual milk processing capacity to 106 million tonnes, from the existing 53 million tonnes. […]
A review meeting organised by the Standing Committee for Monitoring and Expediting Ethanol Production & Capacity has revealed that banks have disbursed loans to barely 37 mills for addition and expansion of distillery capacity for ethanol production, Financial Express reports. Originally, the Centre had received 417 applications from sugar mills across the country for ethanol […]
Considering the potential of production of potatoes near Agra region in Uttar Pradesh, potato cluster has been notified under Agri Export Policy (AEP) of Government of India. For the development of clusters, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) is organizing meetings in the notified clusters under the Agri Export Policy announced […]
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 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 […]
Amid the setback faced by the Indian basmati exporters over stalled shipments due to the ongoing US-Iran standoff, the prices of non-basmati paddy are holding firm and rising in some local markets after reports of crop damage following last year’s heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding in major growing areas have surfaced, Business Standard reports. After the advisory by All India Rice […]
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 […]
