Heavy monsoon rains have damaged India’s main summer-sown oilseed crop soybean, although the total output will still likely be higher than last year. “We think that the output could be around 105 lakh tons, instead of 115 lakh tons that we were anticipating at the start of the season,” said B.V. Mehta, executive director of […]
Gujarat is poised to witness 40 per cent rise in groundnut production to over 84,000 million tonnes for the summer season of 2019-20 as compared to around 60,000 million tonnes in previous year, says the advanced estimate of state agriculture department. Farmers in Saurashtra and North Gujarat region are heavily banking on groundnut crop due […]
Amid coronavirus pandemic, Gujarat is witnessing unprecedented rise of nearly 140 per cent in summer sowing with 9.57 lakh hectare being already sown in the state till Tuesday as compared to previous year’s 6.82 lakh hectare, reports Financial Express. Sources in the state agriculture department said they were expecting further increase in sowing and according […]
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, […]
Monsoon rains in India were 10 per cent above average in 2019 and the highest in 25 years as seasonal rainfall continued longer than expected, the weather department said. Extra June-September monsoon rainfall will help farmers expand areas under winter-sown crops such as wheat, rice rapeseed and chick peas, improving their earning potential and helping […]
China is expecting a bumper harvest of grains provided there are no major natural disasters, said an official with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Xinhua, the Chinese news agency reported. The country’s soybean growing areas increased by 10 million mu (about 666,667 hectares) this year while rice and corn production areas continued to […]
Foodgrain production in the ongoing kharif (summer sown) season is expected to be same as last year’s despite deficient monsoon rains so far as there is still time to sow paddy and other crops, according to estimates by Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR). “At this moment, we expect kharif crops to be more or […]
