The FCI, the centre’s main grain-handling agency, which utilises the food subsidy to provide grains to 800 million people, incurs most of i...

The Indian government plans to establish the world's largest food grain storage scheme under the cooperative societies sector, which will b...

Under the OMSS policy, the government allows state-run Food Corporation of India (FCI) to sell foodgrains, especially wheat and rice, at pr...

Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said the government is encouraging ethanol production not only from molasses but also from foodgrains like ...

Diversion of 5% of cargo transportation to coastal ships can result in annual savings of Rs 2K cr & a 6% reduction in emission of harmful c...

Indian Railways expects a huge movement of foodgrains across the country, once the UPA government's proposed Food Security Bill is passed, ...

Stocking up of foodgrains by the government could be one of the major factors for the continuing surge in food prices, warn experts.

We can hardly stem food inflation with lax storage and grain much ravaged by the elements.

Transporting key commodities such as iron ore, coal, foodgrain and containers by rail is set to become expensive with the Indian Railways d...

the food ministry is actively exploring hiking the quantum of foodgrain available for welfare programmes and working on legislating the sup...

The railways have hiked freight rate for loading of foodgrains by nearly 8.33% with effect from February 1.

Three weeks after Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav denied hiking freight rates, the railways has decided to implement a five to seven pe...

Stating there was no change in its policy of ban on wheat exports, Pakistan on Friday said it would not be possible to sell the foodgrain t...

With the foodgrain market gradually transforming into a sellers’ market, the price a farmer is getting will be aligned much more closely wi...

Cutting down on sugar may be the easiest way for the swelling Wholesale Price Index (WPI) to lose some flab.

In a bid to double India's share in the rapidly-growing food trade to 2% by 2015, the government has initiated steps to formulate a compreh...

The government is likely to continue with the present policy of fixing prices for foodgrain export, based on the recommendations of the Foo...