In a major step to ensure fair prices for farmers and stabilize market rates for consumers, the government has approved ₹35,000 crore for t...

The government will monitor daily prices of 16 more essential food items from August 1, increasing the total to 38. This initiative is inte...

The Consumer Affairs Minister further stated that to check the current increase in prices of tomatoes and make them available to the consum...

With the agricultural sector being a key contributor and employer, it received the much-needed push in the Union Budget. India's agricultur...

Export of essential agricultural commodities in the first six months of the current fiscal rose 43.4% to Rs 53,626.6 crore from Rs 37,397.3...

Haryana has registered 125 FPOs on e-NAM portal for online trading of horticultural items. e-NAM has been updated with additional features ...

This round the clock Agri Transport Call Centre is an initiative of the union agriculture ministry for coordination between States for inte...

The Survey has recommended measures to safeguard farmers through procurement under Price Stabilization Fund to help regulate the price vola...

The Centre has asked states to set up their own state-level price stabilisation funds (PSFs) to deal with price volatility of important agr...

Paswan said the Centre has also sought suggestions from states on changes in the Essential Commodities Act.

Currently India exports a large number of agriculture commodities annually.

Presently, prices of essential commodities are under control, barring seasonal products or short term increase in few, he added.

Along with developing a food value chain, MAFF will also establish food industrial parks and develop cold chains, a release from the Chief ...

Government will shift Rs 500-crore Price Stabalisation Fund (PSF) to Consumer Affairs Ministry from Agriculture Ministry for effective cont...

The government on Tuesday announced Rs 10 subsidy on every kg of imported arhar dal that will be sold to consumers through state agencies.

The PSF, with a corpus of Rs 500 crore, aims to check price volatility through procurement of selected perishable horticulture produce.

The country’s largest bank State Bank of India (SBI) registered a whopping 49% rise in loan outstandings for its agri business, touching Rs...