The Haryana government has decided to give bonus to farmers due to delay in procurement of rabi crops due to coronavirus pandemic. From May 6 to May 31, the state government has decided to give a bonus at the rate of Rs 50 per quintal to the farmers. From June 1 to June 30, the […]
Milk prices, which have risen by Rs 4-5 per litre over the past nine months, are likely to stabilise in 2020-21 as production is expected to pick up due to abundant water availability and anticipated normal monsoon, according to a CRISIL report. Production of milk has been shrinking since April last year due to high […]
The Centre may soon offload imported onions at a highly subsidised rate of Rs 22-23/kg, down around 60 per cent from the current offered rate, as it apprehends rotting of the perishable kitchen item at ports. The central government is currently offering imported onions to state governments at an average landed cost of Rs 58/kg […]
The prospects of a bumper wheat crop this rabi season may overwhelm procurement agencies. Saddled with huge stocks they may lower prices, hitting farmers adversely. As on Friday, the total wheat acreage was 330.2 lakh hectares (lh), up 33.22 lh compared to the previous rabi season’s 297 lh. Considering the increase in sowing in various […]
India’s rabi acreage to go up by 6.6 per cent to 572 lakh hectares this week over the corresponding week last year, according to rabi sowing data released by the Agriculture Ministry. The total planted area under winter crop the same week last year was 536 lakh hectares. There was an almost 10 per cent […]
Area sown to wheat, the main rabi crop, touched 27.8 million hectare (ha) so far in this season, about 90 per cent of the normal sowing area under this crop, according to latest agriculture ministry data. The area sown to wheat crop is higher than 25 million hectare covered in the year-ago period. Currently, farmers […]
India’s peanut production will reach 6.2 million tonnes in 2019, up 31 per cent from 2018, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in its World Agricultural Production report. This 31 per cent increase in production is due to ideal weather conditions in the main peanut producing area of Kutch, Gujarat, the report said. […]
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, […]
