A recent working paper, on the website of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), said significant changes are unfold...

The Indian government has extended the export duty on parboiled rice until March 31 next year. This move aims to maintain sufficient local ...

India has agreed to remove retaliatory customs duties it imposed on eight US products including apples and lentils. The duties were imposed...

Besides, horticulture production also showed continuous increase unlike foodgrain output which reported a decline in 2014-15 as compared to...

Country's horticulture production has surpassed foodgrains output by over 10 per cent at 283.47 million tonnes for the third straight year ...

Foodgrain production is likely to touch a record 263.2 mt this year, beating the previous high of 259 mt achieved two years ago, Pawar said.

In a separate query, the minister said despite a decline in the sector's contribution to GDP, foodgrain production and productivity has ris...

The Centre is providing foodgrains at highly subsidised prices to the people through public distribution system and other welfare schemes s...

In comparison, Indian agriculture has performed well primarily due to timely policy interventions, the survey says.

As much as 7.42 lakh tonnes of foodgrain, worth Rs 330.71 crore, was damaged in the past 10 years in the country due to various reasons.

Economists believe that India can increase its foodgrain production by seven to eight million tonnes if the monsoon rains are normal.

Agricultural land in India has shrunk by nearly two per cent in the last two decades, a fact which does not augur well for the predominate ...

Winter staple wheat has been sown in nearly 10 lakh hectares (one million ha) more this seaon upto October 1, when sowing season began, but...

Work on India's sixth economic census will begin in 2012 as the government wants to give preference to enumeration of those living below th...

India’s production estimate of foodgrains, oilseeds and other commercial crops is unlikely to reflect a surge in the final projection, as w...

Surging prices and worsening global supplies are now bringing the domestic food crisis to the boil. Stagnating grain output has only added ...

THE REASONS for falling demand for foodgrain are yet to be firmly established, though several theses have been advanced to explain this phe...