India is set to harvest a record wheat production of 106.21 million tonne in the 2019-20 crop year on the back of good rains, according to latest government data. Wheat production has been rising year-on-year and the previous record of 103.60 million tonne was achieved during the 2018-19 crop year (July-June). Wheat is the main rabi (winter) crop, harvesting […]
The National Bulk Handling Corporation (NBHC), which has come out with its first rabi crop estimates for 2019-20, said the total rabi cereals production for 2019-20 is expected to increase by 4.52 per cent to 1,342.3 lakh tonnes from 1,284.3 lakh tonnes in 2018-19. NBHC said the wheat area is expected to increase by 12.03 […]
The Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Rural Development and Panchayati Raj, Narendra Singh Tomar held a bilateral meeting with the Brazilian Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply Ms. Tereza Cristina Correa da Costa Dias at Krishi Bhawan in New Delhi to discuss various bilateral trade opportunities, interests and issues. Union Minister Tomar […]
The country’s kharif food production could be much lower than the Centre’s first advance estimate of a marginal fall. Heavy post-monsoon showers are a key reason. The production of coarse grains, pulses, oil seeds and sugarcane is expected to decline in the summer season of 2019-20 due to late monsoon and erratic and heavy rains […]
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 […]
BY RITWIK SINHA The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), the apex research body for the agriculture sector working under aegis of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, is working on a national crop plan to promote crop diversification. In an exclusive recent conversation with indoasiancommodities, Dr. Trilochan Mahapatra, DG, ICAR stated that the plan […]
China boosted its soybean production by 13 per cent in 2019 amid a trade war with No. 2 supplier the United States, official data showed on Friday, helping it record a slight rise in total food crop output. Soybean production jumped to 18.1 million tonnes, the National Bureau of Statistics said, with the area devoted […]
FAO’s latest forecast for 2019 world cereal production is pegged at an all-time high of 2 714 million tonnes, up some 0.4 percent from the November figure and now almost 57 million tonnes (2.1 percent) above the reduced outturn in 2018. The month-on-month increase primarily reflects an upward revision to world coarse grains production, associated with higher-than-previously […]
The International Grains Council (IGC) has raised its forecast for world total grains (wheat and coarse grains) production in 2019/20 by 5 million tonnes month-on-month to 2,162 million tonnes, mainly because of an upgrade for maize. Reflecting better than expected yields, but slightly smaller than predicted harvested area, the outlook for the US maize crop […]
The domestic paddy prices are staging a modest recovery in the current procurement season after hitting rock bottom levels not long ago coupled with a rugged export market scenario. At the Indian Commodity Exchange (ICEX), the paddy (1121 variety) prices were trading at Rs 3,260 per quintal (100 kg), up by 3.55 per cent, as […]
