Agriculture secretary Manoj Ahuja had last week attributed the the fall in wheat production to lower crop yields, mainly in Punjab and Hary...

Under PMGKAY, 5 kg foodgrains per ration card holder and one kg pulses per household will be given for next three months. This is over and ...

The development comes ahead of the assembly election in the food bowl state of Haryana.

From the current data, it appears that foodgrain production would touch a record high of 270 mt, a seven per cent growth from the last year.

India's foodgrains production is estimated to decline by 3.2 per cent at 257.07 million tonnes in the 2014-15 crop year.

In order to plug leakages in PDS and supply quality foodgrain under the new food law to 67% of the country's population, govt is looking at...

Food Minister KV Thomas said government is examining reasons for "undue" rise in prices of foodgrains despite high production.

Sharad Pawar today said the country should adopt genetically modified (GM) crops in order to meet extra requirement of foodgrains.

The final estimate of foodgrains production for the last year has been revised upward marginally to a record 259 million tonnes.

The storage houses and government godowns are packed with previous year's produce, leaving no space for the fresh produce in the country's ...

Bhupinder Singh Hooda today requested the Centre to immediately lift large quantity of foodgrains from the state.

Wheat procurement in the country has grown to a record 32.6 million tonnes (mt) this year so far.

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

The minister said the food situation was comfortable and production of wheat, rice, pulses and sugarcane would be higher than last year.

The fast-depleting groundwater levels and subsidised electricity supply to farmers in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh spell doom ...

The Haryana government has fixed a target of 152 lakh tonnes of foodgrain production in the current financial year against 147.63 lakh tonn...

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