The second area of reforms captured by the index include facilitation and liberalization of land lease.

Although consumers have gained from low inflation, there is a flip side to benign prices.

Referring to the Government’s commitment to the welfare of farmers and doubling farmers’ income by 2022, the Finance Minister announced a s...

On agriculture, the emphasis has been on generating higher income for farmers with increasing the Minimum Support Price (MSP) to at least 1...

The Parli APMC was earlier controlled by Pankaja's father, the late BJP man Gopinath Munde for around three decades, but now is controlled ...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented Modi government's post-demonetisation Budget on Wednesday. Here is the full speech of the Finance M...

As GST statute bill is set to face test in RS, agri commodity sector remains in dark whether the APMC/ mandi taxes, interstate taxes will b...

Jaitley presented his third budget which took on the fiscal and physical health of the nation by setting the fiscal deficit target at 3.5% ...

Onion prices are expected to fall further in the days ahead, traders said. They said their cost of carrying the stocks needs to be covered.

Onion prices, which are driven more by sentiment than fundamentals, declined last week although some leading traders believe they may rally...

The summons to minister of state for chemicals and fertilisers Nihal Chand Meghwal in a rape case and the rising costs of food and consumer...

The sub par monsoon outlook for this year could put pressure on food prices going ahead," Ficci President Sidharth Birla said.

Major Congress-ruled states will do away with middlemen in the sale of fruits and vegetables to tame prices and check hoarding.

First in Ranchi, then in Indore, and then in Kerala and West Bengal, and lately in Lucknow, organised retail in fresh food is facing diffic...