India’s central government’s National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED) is planning to buy 20 lakh tonne of mustard and 15-20 lakh tonne of pulses in the ongoing rabi (winter-sown) harvesting season at the minimum support price (MSP). NAFED will buy pulses and oilseeds on behalf of the government to provide MSP to farmers. The co-operative […]
Rapeseed production in India in 2018/19 is expected to rise nearly 19 per cent from a year earlier to a record 8.5 million tonnes due to conducive weather and as higher prices prompted farmers to expand areas under planting, a leading trade body Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) said in a statement. Rapeseed mustard […]
According to the latest official data from the ministry of agriculture, wheat sown in India reached 298.47 lakh hectare so far in the rabi season 2018-19 as against 299.84 lakh hectare a year ago. Sowing of wheat, the main rabi crop, begins from October and harvesting from March-April. However, sowing of rice, pulses, coarse cereals and oilseeds […]
Wheat production in India may fall in 2019 from record output this year as scanty rains and high temperatures have curtailed water supplies in canals in key growing regions of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and the western state of Gujarat, threatening yields of the winter-sown crop. Madhya Pradesh and the northern state of Uttar Pradesh […]
According to data released by the agriculture ministry, area under rabi crops in India stands at 19.1 million hectares till now, down 15.9 per cent from a year ago. The decline can be attributed to low moisture content in the soil following weak and patchy distribution of rains during the crucial southwest monsoon season (Jun-Sep). […]
Due to increase in acreage and conducive weather condition, country’s Soybean output is likely to touch 105 lakh tonne-110 lakh tonnes, industry experts aver. Although there was a drought like situation in some parts of key growing area, Soybean output have not been impacted much. The average production of the previous three seasons is in […]
Rabi sowing started in the country with farmers planting crops across 8.49 million hectares, down by 8.7 per cent from the same period last year. A slow start of rabi sowing in the country can be attributed to low moisture content in the soil following weak and patchy distribution of rains during the crucial southwest monsoon […]
The government of India has set a target of record 285.2 million tonne of foodgrain production in the 2018-19 crop year despite deficit rains so far this monsoon. India harvested a record 284.83 million tonnes of foodgrain in the 2017-18 crop year (July-June). Harvesting of Kharif (summer sown) crops will begin from end of this […]
The eastern state of India, Odisha witnessed a record procurement of non-paddy rabi crops including pulses and oil-seeds this season. So far, 6,100 tonnes of pulses and oil Seeds have already been procured by the Orissa State Co-operative Marketing Federation Ltd (Markfed-Odisha) against 1500 tonnes last year. While nearly 10 days are left for the […]
The Indian government’s plan to declare minimum support price (MSP) for the entire range of rabi crops may not be a great idea, agriculture economist Ashok Gulati and his team of experts have suggested in a working paper published by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). The experts also have doubts […]