The government has also decided to provide financial aid of Rs 240 crore to potato growers affected by a fall in prices due to high product...

Commission agents typically send village commission agents to collect produce from farmers in villages and bring it to the market yard. In ...

Posting on his Twitter handle, Javadekar, the Minister of Environment as well as Information and Broadcasting, said, "Do not misunderstand ...

Leaders of various political parties including the Congress, the Left parties, NCP, DMK, SP, Trinamool Congress and the RJD have in a memor...

The bills are facing staunch opposition from farmer bodies as well as from within the ruling coalition. Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the food proc...

The last few months have brought game-changing and speedy reforms. These include amendment in the Essential Commodities Act (ECA) and the F...

It’s a little over a month since finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a Rs 20 trillion stimulus package, which includes measures t...

Authorities and traders are working out meticulous plans to streamline flow of vehicles and people engaged in supplying these essential com...

The state government has revealed that the turnover of 94 farmer markets across Maharashtra has touched Rs 5 crore per week with sales in t...

With the law, govt plans to bring in a unified single trading licence apart from developing yards for specific commodities.

Govt will integrate 21 regulated wholesale market, or mandis, in eight states under an online platform today, as part of the proposed Natio...

Prices of tomato and garlic continued to remain high at Rs 40-60/kg and Rs 250-300/kg, respectively, in the metro cities of Delhi, Mumbai, ...

Now private agro companies like ITC, Cargill, Australian Wheat Board will have to cough up more money for the direct purchase of commoditie...

The current mandi system should be allowed to exist while permitting private markets within or outside the regulated markets (mandis), FICC...

Spread over 1 lakh sq ft, Metro will use the same cash-and-carry model it debuted with in Bangalore back in 2003. Retail therapy for shopah...

FICCI has asked the government to modify the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (Development and Regulation) Act 2003.

After dragging its feet for several years on opening access in agricultural produce marketing to the private sector, Karnataka has finally ...