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Weak start to monsoon seen clouding Kharif season outlook: ReportIndia's monsoon has begun with a significant rainfall deficit, impacting kharif sowing, particularly for pulses and cotton. While reservoir...
RBI revises Kisan Credit Card norms, standardises crop season definitionThe Reserve Bank has revamped the Kisan Credit Card (KCC) Scheme, standardizing crop season definitions for uniform loan sanctions and repa...
El Nino returns to Pacific, likely to intensify through monsoon season, says IMDEl Nino has returned to the tropical Pacific. The India Meteorological Department warns it may intensify during the southwest monsoon. The ...
Govt identifies 197 districts most vulnerable to El Nino impact, prepares contingency planIndia's Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced 197 districts are vulnerable to El Nino. The government has prepared state-wis...
Freeze warnings issued across multiple US states, including New York and Pennsylvania, as cold winds are likely to trigger frost, drawing curtains on the growing seasonAutumn's chill is arriving across the northern United States. Frost and freeze alerts are active in states like New York and Pennsylvania. ...
Edible oil prices unlikely to rise during festive season: FMCG cosExecutives of leading FMCG companies in India have stated that prices of edible oils are unlikely to increase during the upcoming festive s...
Migrant workers to return after Kharif sowingA senior executive at an industry body working with the government to restart economic activity said migrant workers were expected to retur...
NPAs have stabilised and have come down, not gone up: Ramesh Iyer, M&M FinanceWe would definitely see H2 turn out to be much better than what we have seen in the past. The festival season was good and even November wa...
Kharif crop to gain from wettest monsoon in 25 yearsOfficials expect record food output but experts await second advance estimates.
Government sees better agricultural output this year on hopes of good monsoonThe Met office today predicted that there will be 'above normal' monsoon this year, easing fears over farm and economic growth.
September rains crucial for kharif foodgrain output: IARIOn crop condition of pulses and oilseeds, the IARI chief said these crops do not require much water, but they would suffer from extreme wea...
Opening prices for tea likely to be strong: Kamal Baheti, McLeod RusselThis will improve the quality of the tea and if we can really put some other norms in place, we will be able to export these teas.
India may achieve 2nd highest foodgrain output this kharifIndia is likely to achieve the second highest foodgrain production at 129.32 million tonnes this kharif season on better monsoon.
Kharif foodgrain output may surpass last year's level: Sharad PawarIndia's foodgrain production is projected to increase marginally in the kharif (summer) season this year to 129.32 million tonnes.
- Foodgrains production to exceed 250 mln tons this yr: Pawar
The final estimate of foodgrains production for the last year has been revised upward marginally to a record 259 million tonnes.
- Unprecedented cold wave brings great worry for agri dependent northern part of West Bengal
If continues for over a week more, the chill wave can become disastrous for the whole region's agriculture and thus economy- feel experts.
- Monsoon revival unlikely to boost food production; food prices likely to go up
There would be some drop in the production of pulses and coarse cereals,” said Agriculture Secretary Ashish Bahuguna.
- Rain deficit dips to 12% but dry patches remain
The late revival of monsoon has brought rains across major parts of the country, particularly north and north-west parts, which were reelin...
- Response to e-auction of tea has been very good: DP Maheshwari, Jay Shree Tea
DP Maheshwari, MD, Jay Shree Tea, in an interview with ET Now, speaks how e-auction of tea is better than outcry and more. Excerpts:-
- Punjab defies drought, paddy output may rise
Agronomists are once again hoping an unexpected increase in production of paddy as it happened in familiar drought like condition in 2002-0...