Food prices: The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that its world price index for food fell to a two-year low...

The new forecast would mark "an all-time high", and is due to the depreciating values of currencies against the US dollar -- the main curre...

The FAO Food Price Index averaged 159.3 points in March, up 12.6 per cent from February when it had already reached its highest level since...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) food price index, which measures monthly changes for a basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy produ...

Beef prices rose as dry weather affected production in Australia and the U.S., while sugar gained on drought in Brazil, the biggest produce...

Wheat exports are likely to touch a record high of 7.5 million tonnes in the current marketing year ending June 2013 on account of record c...

Wheat marketing year in India commences in April and ends in March.

World food costs slipped for a second month in November as prices for oilseeds and cooking oils as well as sugar fell to the lowest in two ...

Rising international wheat prices would benefit India, which is exporting the grain since September last year.

The world is estimated to harvest a record 2,419 million tonnes of cereal crops in 2012-13 mainly on back of expected bumper maize crop in ...

India lags behind badly in world average yield of rice, cotton, pulses while in wheat it is close to the global benchmark.

World commodity prices are expected to drop in the current year on good harvests but are likely to continue their relentless push higher th...

High volatility and price swings in food commodities are likely to prevail for the rest of this year and could continue into 2012, UN body ...

The food import bill of the global community could surpass the $1 trillion mark in 2010, with prices of most commodities going up sharply c...

The Food and Agriculture Organisation has forecast that international rice trade will rebound 2 per cent to 30.7 million tonnes this year, ...

The government would do well by not removing the ban on wheat exports now. If India exports wheat now, the global prices, which are already...

India and China have harvested record cereal crops this year with most of the 4 per cent increase in wheat output coming from India.