In India prices of key food items from vegetables to sugar and pulses continue to run well below last year, keeping retail inflation below the central bank, RBI’s target for the third consecutive month. Inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) stood at 3.31 per cent in October 2018 compared to 3.70 per […]
International food commodity prices dipped in October, as falling dairy, meat and vegetable oils prices more than offset a surge in sugar prices, the United Nations said today. The FAO Food Price Index, a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities, averaged 163.5 points in October, down 0.9 percent […]
Horticulture production in the year ended June is pegged at 306.82 million tonnes, up 2.05 per cent from the previous year’s 300.64 million tonnes, according to the third advance estimates of horticultural production released by the Agriculture Ministry. The latest projections, however, are slightly lower than the 307.2 million tonnes estimated in the second advance […]
Growing fruits and vegetables fetched better returns to farmers as the value of production of these items continued to grow over five years between 2012-16, according to official data. Returns from cereals, however, remained less remunerative as the value of output fell over these five years, according to data by the Ministry of Statistics and […]
Pakistan will be cashing on the fruit and vegetable exports opportunity to Arab Gulf countries as India is facing a ban on imports due to an outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus, according to a senior official of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI). So far Kuwait, followed by UAE and […]
India’s wholesale price inflation (WPI) rose to a four-month high of 3.18 per cent in April on increasing prices of petrol and diesel as well as fruits and vegetables. Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation stood at 2.47 per cent in March and 3.85 per cent in April last year. WPI inflation, which was on a […]
The slightly bent carrot or a spotty potato may not be good for a grocery store shelf or the eye, but throwing them away for want of looks merely means you are wasting food that could well be consumed, the U.N. food organization said. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), one third of […]
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rolled out major sops for the agriculture sector in its attempt to arrest rural distress and help farmers earn more ahead of key state elections this year and national polls in 2019. Finance Minister Arun Jaitely announced a slew of new schemes and measures in his annual budget proposals […]
India’s onion production is estimated to decline by 4.5 per cent to 21.4 million tonnes in the current 2017-18 crop year due to lower acreage, as per the data released by the agriculture ministry. India had harvested 22.4 million tonnes in the last 2016-17 crop year (July-June), the ministry said in a statement. As per […]
India’s horticulture production hit a record 300.6 million tonnes in 2016/17 and are seen rising by 5 percent in the current 2017/18 fiscal, according to the first advance estimated released by the agriculture ministry. The following table summarises the All-India Final Estimates: 2016-17 and 2017-18 (1st Advance Estimates): Total Horticulture 2015-16 2016-17 (Final) 2017-18 (First Adv. […]