Total area sown with winter crops (Rabi) in India reached at 251 lakh hectares so far, about 10 per cent lower than the 276.83 lakh hectares planted in the corresponding week last year. According to the latest rabi sowing data released by the Agriculture Ministry, there is a substantial shortfall in the planting of gram […]
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, […]
Global rice production in 2019-20 is expected to remain flat as a large harvest from India is expected to offset lower volumes from Indonesia and the Philippines, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said. “Global rice production is nearly unchanged this month, as a larger Indian crop is fully offset by smaller harvests for Indonesia […]
The Indian government said it was raising the minimum support price (MSP) for rabi crops that will hit the market in 2020-21, with the highest increase marked for lentils. A government statement said that the increase in MSP was in line with the principle of fixing these prices at a level of at least 1.5 […]
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 […]
