Agriculture

FieldFresh to export frozen baby corn, chillies to UK, EU

13 Sep 2016

Govt to build pulses buffer stock of 2 million tonnes

13 Sep 2016

Australian farm registry reveals

08 Sep 2016

Record production pushes greengram prices below MSP

08 Sep 2016

NABARD to provide Rs77,000 cr funding for 99 irrigation projects under PMKSY

06 Sep 2016

Government finds GM mustard safe, seeks comments

06 Sep 2016

Modi inaugurates Phase-1 of Rs12,000-cr Saurashtra irrigation project

30 Aug 2016

The Sauni project is an engineering marvel that involves lifting huge amounts of water through hundreds of kilometres to fill 115 dams across Saurashtra

Government to import further 90,000 tonnes pulses for buffer stock

27 Aug 2016

Monsanto, allies desert National Seeds Association over pricing, royalty issues

27 Aug 2016

Things came to head after the National Seeds Association backed the May 2016 Gazette notification that reasserted the government’s right to fix seed prices

Banana extinction threat overrated, says Australian expert

18 Aug 2016

Scientists battling to save bananas from extinction in just 5-10 years

18 Aug 2016

The ubiquitous banana – one of the world’s top five staple foods – could become extinctinct in just five to 10 years due to fast-advancing fungal diseases, scientists have warned

Russia opens its dairy products market to India, but low prices make exports unviable

16 Aug 2016

Farmers in India dump Monsanto, switch to local cotton seeds

03 Aug 2016

Foodgrain production marginally higher at 252.23 mn tonnes in 2015-16 despite poor rains

03 Aug 2016

India-US partnership launches agricultural training programme in Asia, Africa

26 Jul 2016

Farm incomes too low, leading to inequality: Jaitley

25 Jul 2016

He said the country cannot afford to have 55 per cent of its people in agriculture whose contribution to the national GDP is only 16 per cent

US senate passes mandatory GMO labeling bill

11 Jul 2016

Cargill to sell two Texas beef cattle feedlots to Texas-based Friona Industries

09 Jul 2016

Centre earmarks Rs18,276 cr for interest subsidy to farmers

07 Jul 2016

Fertiliser prices slashed by up to Rs5,000 per tonne: minister

05 Jul 2016

100 Nobel winners call on Greenpeace to halt anti-Golden Rice campaign

30 Jun 2016

Golden Rice was designed as a solution to vitamin A deficiency, suffered by around 250 million people globally, including 40 per cent of the children under 5 in the developing world

UK food prices set to rise due to Brexit vote

27 Jun 2016

Monsoon covers 90% of drought-hit Maharashtra, set to enter central India

20 Jun 2016

Monsoon set to arrive in two days

16 Jun 2016

Pulses price hits Rs200 a kg as govt ups buffer stock target 5-fold to 8 lakh tonnes

16 Jun 2016