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Potatoes are yet to mature this year and that is why cold storages have not yet started loading potatoes.

While the procurement of moong would commence next month, the procurement of potato would start in the month of February.

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The state govt has decided to help potato farmers shift their produce from markets where wholesale prices have crashed to as low as Rs 290 ...

The output stood at 43.4 million tonnes in 2015-16 crop year (July-June), while last record was 48 million tonnes achieved in 2014-15.

The state’s potato harvest this year (the tuber harvest typically begins in end-January and continues through February) has seen a 22% jump.

Khandagosh block development officer Santanu Das said he had received the news and was looking into the situation.

Onion prices start rising from July and usually it reaches peak during September-October. Similarly, potato prices go up abnormally between...

SFAC will procure these two commodities to check price rise in the Delhi-NCR market and will later look at other major cities, the official...

Last week, the government had asked Nafed and Small Farmers’ Agribusiness Consortium to explore the possibility of importing potato from Eu...

PepsiCo is looking to enhance potato procurement through its tie up with farmers by around 20% to 65% in India in the next five years.

McDonald’s refuted Sushma Swaraj’s allegation that the fast-food giant does not source even basic commodities such as potatoes from within ...

PepsiCo expects the number of Indian farmers, from whom it sources different produce, to reach 30,000 by the end of next year.

Potato prices have risen over the last week due to the delay by the the Bengal government in offloading 10 lakh tonne of the vegetable into...

Cigarettes-to-hotels conglomerate ITC’s June quarter results were a watershed event for the company’s agri-commodities businesses.