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India prepares contingency plans for 315 districts as monsoon faltersIndia is implementing contingency plans for over 300 vulnerable districts facing a potentially weak monsoon. With rains currently 43% below...- Indian soybean acreage expected to rise on higher prices, weak monsoon outlookIndian farmers are planting more soybeans this year. Higher prices for soybeans are making them more profitable than corn. Forecasts of les...
- Govt needs to revive NITI Aayog's PSU, PSB privatisation program: Arvind PanagariyaFormer NITI Aayog vice chairman Arvind Panagariya urges the government to revive privatization of public sector undertakings and banks. He ...
- El Niño clouds loom over kharif crops, farm payA developing El Niño event thousands of miles away poses a significant threat to India's agriculture. This weather phenomenon is linked to ...
- Tantrum of a problem child might cool India's economic engineThe IMD has retained its forecast for a below-normal monsoon in 2026, with El Nino expected to dominate the June-September season and rainf...
- Macro, the Mightiest: Why India’s biggest macro variable still falls from the skyThe 2026 monsoon comes with a clear warning: Rainfall is forecast at 92% of the long-period average, with higher-than-usual probability of ...
- Government's foodgrain stocks hit 604 lakh tonnes, nearly three times buffer requirementIndia's food reserves are robust. Wheat and rice stocks in FCI godowns are nearly three times the mandatory buffer. This ensures ample supp...
- India's wheat production resilient despite setbacks: Agri ministryIndia's wheat output for the 2025-26 crop year is stable. The agriculture ministry assures resilience despite unseasonal rains and hailstor...
- Flour millers' body calls for greater policy stability, stronger industry-government coordinationNavneet Chitlangia highlighted the need for stock transparency, predictable OMSS policies, export flexibility, and liquidity support to ens...
- Paddy sowing up 19 pc so far, arhar & urad acreage rises sharplyIn the 2024-25 kharif season, paddy increased by 19.35% to 59.99 lakh hectare. Pulses rose to 36.81 lakh hectare, notably arhar. Maize reac...
- Paddy sowing up 5per cent so far; coverage still lags in Odisha, AP & AssamThe area sown to paddy in India has increased by 5% to 328.22 lakh hectares during the ongoing Kharif season compared to 312.80 lakh hectar...
- Maharashtra's rabi sowing till mid-November trails by 54%As on November 15, rabi crops have been sown on 13.05 lakh hectares, compared with the 28.35 lakh hectare area sown during the comparable p...
- Paddy sowing up 2.27 pc so far; area up in states like K'takaPaddy acreage stood at 374.81 lakh hectare in the year ago period.Kharif sowing begins with the onset of southwest monsoon from June and ha...
- Overall rabi sown area dips, but pulses' on riseThough the overall dip is attributed to sharp decline in area under wheat, the 9% rise in sown area under pulses so far (from 138.34 lakh h...
- Wheat acreage down 4.4%, pulses' nearly 3% this seasonWheat sowing has declined by 4.4 per cent in the winter season so far to 292.52 lakh hectares, while area under pulses is down by 2.74 per ...
- Rabi wheat sowing down 27% at 117.32 lakh hectare so far"As per preliminary reports received from the states. The total area sown under rabi crops as on 27th November, 2015 stands to 317.96 lakh ...
- Kharif sown area increases but sowing pace decreasesThe sown area under Kharif crop in the country keeps on increasing but the overall area under summer crop may not be much higher than it wa...
- Rabi crop sowing crosses 536 lakh hectare areaThe area under pulses stands at 126.84 lakh hectare and it exceeds the normal area of 126.70 lakh hectare for the entire rabi season.
- Kharif sowing crosses 1046 lakh hectareThe total kharif sown area, as per reports received from states, during the week ending October 4th stands at 1046.32 lakh hectare.
- Kharif sowing crosses 968 lakh hectare markThe total sown area (968.48 lakh hectare) is 107.84% of the area sown at this time last year (898.05 lakh ha).
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