State-owned FCI and state procurement agencies have bought 21 per cent more paddy so far in the kharif marketing season of this year at 151.17 lakh tonnes amounting to Rs 28,543 crore. Paddy procurement for kharif 2020-21 is progressing smoothly in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala with purchase of over 151.17 lakh […]
Prices of many main summer-sown crops are ruling below their minimum support prices (MSPs) at mandis in several parts of India. Kharif crops like jowar, bajra, maize, moong and soyabean were ruling at prices between 8 per cent and 38 per cent below their MSPs during the first fortnight of October. Kharif harvesting season of […]
The India Pulses and Grains Association (IPGA) welcomed the government decision to allot a quota for imports of 1.5 lakh tonnes of urad. However, the imports are unlikely to bring down the prices drastically, the association said. “This will cool down the high prices to a certain extent but will not have much impact on […]
The government of India has set foodgrain production target at a record 301 million tonnes for the 2020-21 crop year, up nearly 1.5 per cent from the previous year’s output, based on good monsoon rains this year and a higher acreage in the kharif season. The target for the 2020-21 crop year (July-June) was set […]
India is likely to reap a bumper pulses crop despite crop damage due to heavy rains that has caused flooding and an outbreak of a fungal disease in parts of the country, Agriculture Commissioner S.K. Malhotra said. Speaking at a webinar of India Pulses and Grains Association on Friday, Malhotra said timely rains in June […]
National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) has procured 95,000 tonnes of onion directly from farmers at prevailing rates for creating a buffer stock on behalf of the government. Onions grown in the Rabi (winter) crop can be stored and have a long shelf life when compared to the one grown in the Kharif […]
The US is mulling over restoring India’s beneficiary status under its trade preference programme GSP on receiving a counterbalancing proposal from New Delhi, a top Trump administration official has told lawmakers, The New Indian Express reports. admin
MAHA Farmers Producer Co (MahaFPC), which is a federation of 303 farmer producer companies in Maharashtra, has announced that it has been successful in procuring pulses and lentils from farmers worth Rs. 500 crore under the Government Price Support Scheme (PSS), despite the Covid pandemic. The federation has been active in procurement of agri-commodities, especially […]
Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and West Bengal are among the states that have fallen behind in distributing their April quota of free pulses under the Prime Minister’s Garib Kalyan package, even though two months have lapsed since the scheme came into force, according to a report in Business Standard. Overall, states have managed to distribute less than […]
The Indian government announced it was raising the minimum support price (MSP) for kharif crops by 50 percent to ensure remunerative prices to the growers for their produce. The government’s strategy is one of promoting sustainable agriculture with diversified cropping pattern matching with the country’s agro-climatic conditions, towards higher productivity without jeopardising nation’s bio-diversity, a […]
