"The market committees will issue coupons to Arthiyas (commission agents) who in turn will give them to farmers, who are associated with th...

Launching this farmer friendly mobile app, Chairman Mandi Board Laal Singh said that this endeavour would also empower the arthias and gene...

They mostly started as labourers for big cultivators, but growing crops locals tend to avoid yielded rich results

Many truck unions in Punjab are opposed to the state government's fiscal austerity measures; their boycotts threaten to disrupt wheat procu...

It has hit the age-old informal credit from arthiyas or commission agents in Haryana and Punjab.

He asked the students in particular to take pledge on this day to stand like a rock against all odds and work for strengthening the nationa...

Giving the protest call, Bajwa held the Parkash Singh Badal-led government responsible for plight of farmers.

Bollywood veteran Vinod Khanna will contest the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat in Punjab, BJP announced as it released a list of nine more candid...

Traders are expecting the Centre to lower prices of wheat sold through the Open Market Sale Scheme (OMSS) to retail consumers.

Snowfall and rains across north India are expected to ensure a good production with government officials targetting an 1-2 million tonne in...

Though onion prices are yet to cool down, potato prices have dropped at the retail end. An early good crop of potatoes in Punjab, West Beng...

FCI has made a small beginning by procuring 217 tonne of paddy and making direct payment to farmers in Punjab amidst protests in the state ...

The spot steel price in Punjab has hardened by Rs 1,700 per metric tonne (MT), compounding the woes of steel consuming industry in the stat...

It’s the end of the road for wheat farmers hoping to get high open market prices.

Punjab wheat farmers have their hands full.

After successfully using advance licences for tiding over a shortage of sugar, the government believes an incentive scheme may work for whe...

While the Congress party is training its guns on commodity futures, it is the open markets of Delhi, Karnal and Khanna that are seeing the ...