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India sugar exports to hit 8.5 MT
India is expected to hit a record sugar export level of 8.5 MT in the current season...
GDP growth estimated at 7.4% for 2022-23: FICCI ECONOMIC OUTLOOK SURVEY
The latest round of FICCI’s Economic Outlook Survey puts forth an annual median...
Abysmal wage rates for MGNREGA in FY 2022-23: NSM, PAEG
At a time when the country is going through the worst employment crisis in decades,...
Good news again for mustard farmers this year; market prices up to 50 per cent higher than MSP
The government has fixed the minimum support price (MSP) for mustard this year at...
Genome-edited plants exempted from biosafety regulations; process to develop new varieties will speed up
According to the memorandum, some ministries and departments had sought exemption...
There is much in a name, ask Subhash Palekar on natural farming
Organic farming, writes Palekar, is more dangerous, destructive and exploitative...
Rs 80,000 cr and 244 LMT foodgrains for PM-GKAY during Apr-Sep 2022
This allocation of 244 LMT of foodgrains for PM-GKAY Phase VI is over and above...
MSP committee may be formed soon
According to highly placed officials in the Ministry of Agriculture, the committee...
Demand for pulses projected to increase to 32.64mn tonnes in 2029-30
If we look at the overall yield of pulses, it went up from 786 kg/ha in 2016-17...
Indian Potash signs MoU with Israel Chemicals for MOP supply
Indian Potash Limited (IPL) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Israel...
SC committee felt repeal of farm laws would be unfair; its report reveals most farmer organizations supported the laws
According to Ghanwat, had the Supreme Court published the Report upon its receipt,...
India’s maize exports at all-time high of $816.31mn in Apr-Jan, way above $634.85mn in entire FY21
The export of maize has touched $816.31mn in the first ten months of the current...
Future For Nature Award for three mammal conservationists including Tiasa Adhya from India
This year the fishing cat, giant armadillo and sloth bear have won the FFN award....
283.26 lt sugar produced till March 15, up by 23.89 lt
283.26 lt of sugar has been produced till 15 March 2022, higher by 23.89 lt from...
SKM to launch nationwide campaign once again to protest govt’s inaction on MSP, Lakhimpur Kheri and other promises
SKM will start a nationwide campaign by observing “Legal Guarantee for MSP” Week...
Mustard seed production to rise 29 pc at 109.5 lt in Rabi 2021-22: COOIT
The Central Organisation for Oil Industry & Trade (COOIT) on March 14 released the...
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