Expect higher prices for essential kitchen items like spices, eggs, and dairy. Food inflation is rising, with a potential monsoon deficit a...

India's government warehouses hold record rice stocks, up 15% from last year. Wheat inventories are at a five-year peak. These abundant res...

India's ancient summer drinks are making a comeback as heatwaves intensify. These traditional beverages like Bael Sharbat, Padhaneer, Tanka...

From chicken muck to human urine-based products and microbial solutions, growers are improvising to maintain crop yields. This shift, while...

India’s Covid-era “hobby economy” — spanning gardening, baking, fitness and pet care — has evolved into a ₹1.5-2 lakh cr market, though not...

Goa's monsoon season highlights the vital role of roofs, from sheltering homes and drying food like onion braids to providing space for com...

India’s Rs 5,659-crore Mission for Cotton Productivity aims to tackle falling yields, poor seed quality, and rising import dependence throu...

India faces cooking gas shortages due to global events. Villagers in Uttar Pradesh are turning to biogas, made from cow dung, as a reliable...

In Purba Bardhaman, potato farmers face price caps, weak markets and migration woes. As elections near, discontent simmers, but TMC still a...

Singur's landscape is marked by abandoned factory remnants and damaged farmland. The Tata Motors Nano project's 2008 exit reshaped Bengal p...

The crop declined 11 per cent in Assam in June 2022 at 76.87 million kg from 86.37 million kg in the same month of previous year. In Barak ...

Though tea prices have risen by 25-40% on an average, industry executives say that lockdowns in the tea growing regions coupled with irregu...

As per the Tea Board of India official figures, the annual average price of tea of North India (which includes Assam) at the Indian auction...

Industry executives said that since Kenya’s tea crop had declined owing to a severe drought, prices shot up 15-20% at the Mombasa auction.

In May last year, Assam’s tea estates had produced 62.53 million kg of tea.

Kallol Datta said that so far, crop loss in the premium tea producing region was down by 40 per cent from the last year.

Global tea production is heading towards a shortfall in January-March quarter of 2009 due to prevailing dry spell in major tea producing na...