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Agro insolvencies see surge in deal activityInvestors are actively acquiring struggling agro businesses. These deals offer processing facilities, supply chains, and licenses at signif...
Centre adds 7 new products on eNAM platformUnion Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced the inclusion of seven new agricultural products, including Banarasi paan, o...
Food’s climate funding tops $7 billion during COP28From farming to processing and consumption, food accounts for about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Higher educational institutes create ‘Agri-Consortium’Indian higher educational institutes (HEIs) have joined together to form an 'Agri-Consortium', led by IIM Kashipur. The consortium aims to ...
Agri industry demands independent body to use Rs 1 lakh crore Agri Infrastructure FundVilas Shinde, chairman, Sahyadri Agro, India’s largest FPO, agrees. "We need to create value chains for every commodity in which FPOs can p...
Haryana to integrate FPO's packhouses on e-NAMHaryana has registered 125 FPOs on e-NAM portal for online trading of horticultural items. e-NAM has been updated with additional features ...
Budget 2019: To help marginal cultivators government proposes 10,000 farmer producer organisationsCurrently, 3,500 FPOs have been registered and another 3,000 are under promotion, said Pravesh Sharma, former head of the Small Farmers Agr...
Uttam Value Steels & Galva Metallics get new bids from CarVal consortiumCarVal Investors, the investment arm of US-based agri group Cargill, has bid for the assets along with Asset Reconstruction Company (India)...
SFAC seminar lays emphasis on Venture Capital Assistance SchemeChaudhuri said that this scheme, if fully utilized in West Bengal, would benefit the agri-business entrepreneurs in the state.
BoB signs MoU to become preferred lender for FPOs in Maharashtra“The tax incentive has increased prospect of lending to FPOs,”
Government introduces FPOs in fishery sector"FPO is being introduced in the fishery sector," he said, adding that proposals for 21 fishery FPOs have been submitted.
CCEA fixes MSP for toria at Rs 3,560 per quintalThe Cabinet took the decision to fix MSP for toria in 2017-18 market season on the basis of normal market price differentials.
Farmer bodies want government to allow old notes for buying agricultural inputFinance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his first pre-Budget consultation, was flooded with representations from the farmer bodies to ease cash c...
Agriculture portal E-kisan to bridge farmer-wholesaler gapThe Small Farmers Agri-business Consortium (SFAC), a body under the ministry, will facilitate transactions for E-kisan.
Agriculture experts seek check on cheap imports, maket reformsExpressing concern over falling prices of agriculture commodities, farm experts demanded that the government should take steps curb cheap i...
Government keeps toria MSP unchanged at Rs 3,020/quintal for this yearThe MSP has been determined on the basis of normal price differential between toria and rapeseed/mustard seed, it said.
Agriculture Ministry seeks import duty exemption on potato to boost supplyPotato prices have shown a rising trend and the commodity is being retailed at Rs 35-40 per kg in the National Capital, against 20-25 a kg ...
Assam's credit plan for agriculture pegged at Rs 5176 croreOut of Rs 5176 crore, around Rs 3340 crore is for crop loan and Rs 1836 for the term loan.
- Union budget 2012-13: Pranab Mukherjee makes farmers happy
Pranab Mukherjee has been able to appease the farming community through the slew of announcements on agriculture that he had made in the Un...
- Green Planet to invest Rs 960 cr in biomass power projects
Green Planet Energy Private Limited will invest a sum of Rs 960 crore on setting up 14 biomass power projects in Punjab.