The IMD has retained its forecast for a below-normal monsoon in 2026, with El Nino expected to dominate the June-September season and rainf...

The 2026 monsoon comes with a clear warning: Rainfall is forecast at 92% of the long-period average, with higher-than-usual probability of ...

India's rural economy is faced with potential challenges. A weaker monsoon and rising farm costs from the Iran war could impact growth this...

Navneet Chitlangia highlighted the need for stock transparency, predictable OMSS policies, export flexibility, and liquidity support to ens...

Wheat sowing has increased by 2 percent to 334.17 lakh hectares as of January 9. This rise in acreage for the rabi season is attributed to ...

Wheat planting for the 2024-25 rabi season shows little change. Area for pulses and oilseeds has seen a slight increase. Rice sowing is up ...

Gujarat's Rabi crop sowing has exceeded 47.55 lakh hectares, surpassing the three-year average, driven by favorable rains and high prices. ...

According to the data, total area under oilseeds has increased sharply to 97.07 lakh hectare as on December 31, 2021 from 80.64 lakh hectar...

"The trend of summer sowing progress is very good as on date. Besides, the prospect of rabi crops is also very good and about 48 per cent o...

Harvesting of wheat and other rabi crops have been completed in 44 per cent of the total 697 lakh hectares sown area during 2020-21 rabi se...

The report adds that the overall Rabi oilseeds crop 2016-17 has increased by 18.53% to 91.76 lakh tones from 77.41 lakh tones last year.

As per the latest government data, wheat has been sown in 4.28 lakh hectare so far in this rabi (winter) season, as against 2.76 lakh hecta...

Wheat sowing has declined by 4.4 per cent in the winter season so far to 292.52 lakh hectares, while area under pulses is down by 2.74 per ...

The sown area under rabi or winter crops has fallen by 2.86 million hectare in the current fiscal, according to data released by the agricu...

Production of foodgrains (comprising rice, wheat, pulses and coarse cereals) in 2013-14 crop year (July-June) stood at 264.77 million tonne...

All eyes are now on the estimates for the rabi crop this year.

Hopes of food prices easing now centre around a good rabi output.