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 […]
The Uttar Pradesh government has set an ambitious wheat procurement target of 5.5 million tonnes (MT) for the coming 2020-21 rabi marketing season, reports Business Standard. The state cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Yogi Adityanath last evening approved the rabi procurement policy under the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs 1,925 per quintal (100 kg) set by the […]
The government’s second advance estimates released last month have pegged wheat output at 106.21 million tonne for 2019-20 crop year (July-June), up by 2.5% from a year earlier. The current spell of rain lashing many parts of India in the last two days has not damaged winter crops, according to initial reports from states. However, […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
