The Agriculture ministry expects foodgrain production to touch a record 277.49 million tonnes in the 2017-18 crop year.

The share of agriculture in real GDP has fallen given its lower growth rate relative to industry and services.

Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Wednesday said that the government was targeting freight carriage of 1,025 million tonnes to bring in Rs...

With the latest freight hike across the board, Railways aims to earn between Rs 15,000 crore to Rs 20,000 crore in the next fiscal.

Railways withdrew 4% exemption on fertiliser and foodgrain loading rates besides making a 10-15 per cent upward revision of other commoditi...

The eastern region of the country, which occasionally hits the headlines for starvation deaths, has turned into a food surplus zone thanks ...

The draft bill also presses for overhaul of the food distribution system by giving incentives to independent agencies that procure grain.

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

An analysis of the remote sensing data collected by Nasa satellites on the changes in vegetation in India says that the growth rate of food...

Pakistan has asked its Rangers deployed along the Indo-Pak border to check any possibility of smuggling of pulses, rice, wheat and flour to...

The bad news is that India will continue to be rocked by food inflation imported from abroad, as domestic production of carbs, fats and pro...

Top rice growing states have clocked in worrisome news over this kharif’s total output notwithstanding the rosy picture that emerged on the...

The news is mixed on the food and fertiliser front .The bad news is on the fertiliser front. So, first the good news. Food subsidy levels h...

Non-introduction of the long-awaited direct foodgrain export scheme disappoints. But grain exporters say individual measures are steps in t...

Food subsidy from the Centre may well see a trend reversal, given indications that the subsidy bill for the year is unlikely to rise beyond...

The government spends more on buffer-stocking foodgrain annually than its entire Plan and non-Plan outlay on agriculture, rural development...

The food ministry is planning to seek an extension to the decisions taken by the government to reduce huge foodgrain stocks, when they come...