Nafed and Food Corporation of India, among themselves, have procured nearly 38 lakh tonne of oilseeds and pulses under the flagship PM-Aasha scheme during both kharif and rabi seasons of 2018-19 crop year (July-June), as more and more farmers prefer to sell their crops to government agencies for getting the MSP benefit, says a report […]
The government is likely to raise the import duty on wheat from the current 30 per cent to 40 per cent to rule out any possibility of cheaper imports amid the harvesting of the new crop. The import duty increase will force flour millers to buy wheat from FCI, which is set to offload stocks […]
The government of India, which is already sitting on a record stockpile of rice expects procurement of the food grain to touch a new high of about 45 million tonnes in the current procurement year that ends September 2019. The government had bought more than 37 million tonnes rice from farmers in the kharif season, […]
The government of India has estimated the country’s wheat production at 25.16 million tonnes in the 2018-19 Rabi crop sowing season. The estimate came in a meeting of the Federal Committee on Agriculture (FCA). The FCA, which was tasked with overseeing strategic measures to ensure food security in the country, reviewed harvests of Rabi crops […]
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 […]
