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Wheat crops suffer damage due to untimely rain, hail
Sudden thundershowers, hail and strong winds in northwest India have impacted agriculture,...
Food prices bring down retail inflation to 5-month low of 4.85pc in Mar
Cooling food prices led to a fall in retail inflation, which dropped to a five-month...
Govt asks traders to compulsorily provide wheat stock info
Acting cautiously with Lok Sabha elections perhaps in mind, the Centre on Friday...
Govt to soon begin procurement of 5LT rabi onion
Central Government has directed NCCF and NAFED to initiate procurement of 5 lakh...
Onion exports ban to stay till further orders
With Lok Sabha election process underway, the government has extended the export...
SEA seeks govt intervention as mustard seeds prices rule below MSP
Edible oil industry body SEA expressed concern over prices of mustard seeds falling...
Net sugar output falls marginally at 280.79 LT so far in 2023-24 mkt yr: ISMA
Sugar production till 15th March 2024 in the current 2023-24 season reached 280.79...
Climate crisis hits women, rural poor and older people harder, a new FAO report finds
A new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)...
Marginal drop in sugar output at 25.53 MT so far this marketing year: ISMA
The country's sugar production dropped by 1.19 percent to 25.53 million tonne so...
Govt okays Rs 24,420cr subsidy for P&K fertilisers for '24 kharif season
The Centre on Thursday approved Rs 24,420 crore subsidy on Phosphatic and Potassic...
Bharatiya Kisan Sangh demands to abolish GST on agri inputs, increase in Kisan Samman Nidhi
RSS affiliated Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) has demanded that GST on agricultural...
Delhi Chalo' march by protesting farmers put on hold for two days
Farmer leaders have put their march to the national capital on hold for two days...
What proposal did the Center give to the farmers? Which crops will get at MSP for 5 years?
The Central Government has put forward a proposal before the farmers, under which...
7.8mn farmers can get PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi, e-KYC campaign launched
Around 7.8 million farmers in the country, who are deprived of PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi,...
Food inflation eases to 6.85pc in Jan
Inflation in vegetables was 19.71 per cent in January, down from 26.3 per cent in...
Cops use tear gas to prevent agitating farmers from entering Delhi
Haryana police fired teargas shells at farmers as they marched from Punjab to Delhi...
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