With an aim to check spiralling prices of pulses, the government has moved a proposal for procurement and creating buffer stock of lentils,...

1.5 lakh tonnes of tur and urad will be procured in the kharif season and the rest 2 lakh tonnes of chana and masoor will be bought in the ...

The fund, which has a corpus of Rs 500 crore, was set up to support market interventions for price control of perishable agri-horticultural...

With dal prices ruling at above Rs 200 per kg in the retail markets, the Centre will start procuring 40,000 tonnes of pulses directly from ...

The Centre is exploring the option of giving direct subsidy to states from the price stabilisation fund to procure onions.

The government is keeping a close watch on onion prices and has floated a tender for import of 10,000 tonnes of onions, which will be opene...

Cooperative NAFED has re-invited bids for import of 10,000 tonnes of onions after it failed to attract any supplier in the previous tender.

The allegation came a day after the Delhi government announced it would sell onions at Rs 40 per kg at 280 fair price shops.

To prevent further spike in retail prices of onions, central agency SFAC has more than doubled the supply of the key kitchen staple to 250 ...

To keep the prices in check in coming days, government agencies SFAC and NAFED have swung into action and started selling onions via Safal ...

SFAC and NAFED have together procured 7,000-8,000 tonnes onions from Nasik, Maharashtra using the Price Stabalisation Fund (PSF).

Central government agencies SFAC and Nafed have decided to move their onion stocks from Nashik to Delhi as retail prices have almost treble...

The National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (Nafed) too has started procurement of onions in Lasalgaon in Maharashtra.

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...

Potato prices have shown a rising trend and the commodity is being retailed at Rs 35-40 per kg in the National Capital, against 20-25 a kg ...

The Centre, for the first time, has asked SFAC, the state-owned financial consortium, to procure pulses directly from farmers' groups at MS...