The march started from Nashik on Mar 6 with the participation of about 10K -12K farmers. The no. swelled to more than 30K by the time it re...

It is feared that consignments of Brazilian pepper that has landed in Nhava Sheva port for local market by paying 70% duty but by not payin...

Farmers' body claimed that despite the generous help from UP government, the arrears in UP is higher, though mainly because of 5 sugar comp...

The announcement of increasing farm credit to 10 lakh crore may not help much the small and marginalised farmers, who are outside the banki...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his first pre-Budget consultation, was flooded with representations from the farmer bodies to ease cash c...

The working group had said that the methodology used by the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Pricing for calculating cost of cultivatio...

Poultry farmers in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are an enraged lot after the external affairs ministry's proposal to allow duty...

Large farm lobbies are backing govt's decision to allow foreign supermarkets to set up shops in the country, saying the move will shorten t...

At present, the Centre fixes the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP), which is the minimum price that mills have to pay to sugarcane growers.

Commerce Ministry has sought opinion from finance and industry ministries over a demand from tobacco farmers to tighten import of cigarette...

"The agriculture sector faces a critical situation of low productivity - young people running away to the cities," said P. Chengal Reddy.

Government today said farmer groups have come out in support of FDI in multi-brand retail and have demanded its early implementation.

A group of farmer leaders asked PM to implement the decision to allow foreign investment in multi-brand retail, or else face a nation-wide ...

A farmers body today batted strongly for FDI in the retail sector, saying it will help create better marketing opportunities for agricultur...

Demanding a level playing field for domestic farmers, the Consortium of Indian Farmers Associations has said agricultural products imported...

Finance Minister P Chidambaram appears bothered by the lack of political consensus on payment of fertiliser subsidy, estimated to cost the ...

The Consortium of Indian Farmers Association on Monday demanded 25 per cent of budgetary allocation for the agriculture sector to ensure th...