Agriculture

Govt scraps minimum export price for onions as prices crash

26 Dec 2015

Wholesale prices of onions are ruling at Rs10-14 per kg at Asia's biggest wholesale market for onion at Lasalgaon in Maharashtra, much lower than its peak of Rs57 per kg in August

Govt scraps minimum export price for onions as prices crash

26 Dec 2015

Wholesale prices of onions are ruling at Rs10-14 per kg at Asia's biggest wholesale market for onion at Lasalgaon in Maharashtra, much lower than its peak of Rs57 per kg in August

Centre to encourage states to procure foodgrains

16 Dec 2015

Nine states account for 78% of country’s cropped area

10 Dec 2015

Direct benefit transfer scheme to be extended to cotton farmers soon

07 Dec 2015

Climate-friendly rice recognized as a top science development of 2015

25 Nov 2015

The new kind of rice grows in a manner that nearly eliminates the production of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Rice is a big source of methane

US plan to place food imports under FDA scrutiny to handicap India

29 Oct 2015

Northeast monsoon on its way; rains lash TN

28 Oct 2015

GM seed companies back in action in Maharashtra

20 Oct 2015

GM seed companies back in action in Maharashtra

20 Oct 2015

GM seed companies back in action in Maharashtra

20 Oct 2015

Govt to create 40,000 tonne buffer stock of pulses to check prices

17 Oct 2015

Sikkim to be declared India's first "organic state"

15 Oct 2015

Pesticides or chemical fertiliser will not be used in farming, and crop and vegetables will be grown with organic manure throughout Sikkim

Pest attack destroys GM cotton crop in Punjab, Haryana

10 Oct 2015

Pest attacks have destroyed crops of genetically modified cotton across Punjab and Haryana in the first major pest infestation since the country shifted to genetically modified cotton in 2002

Project afoot to make tea estates climate-smart

06 Oct 2015

What worries the industry most is that although it has so far not experienced any major crop loss due to climate change, tea quality is suffering and pest attacks are increasing

Scientific institutions decry Scotland’s GM crops ban

26 Sep 2015

Australia’s dairy industry seeks to tap rising demand in India

23 Sep 2015

Syria conflict prompts first withdrawal from doomsday seed bank

23 Sep 2015

Maharashtra seeks RBI help in lending to Marathwada farmers as co-op banks turn illiquid

08 Sep 2015

Monsoon begins pullout; leaves 13% rain deficit

05 Sep 2015

Scarcities loom as 40% of India sees rain deficit

04 Sep 2015

For Indian households already struggling with high food prices, there is more bad news – the deficient rainfall has raised the spectre of a drought over large parts of the country

Maharashtra may stop sugarcane growing this year

31 Aug 2015

Maharashtra government may disallow cultivation and crushing of sugarcane this year owing to the severe water shortage in Marathwada and the western regions