The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is scheduled to come out with GDP estimate for the fourth quarter (Q4) of fiscal 2017-18 and provisiona...

Last week, Central Statistics Office had pegged farm and allied sector growth at 2.1 per cent for 2017-18, much lower than 4.9 per cent ach...

Most parts of northwest and central India received deficit rainfall, but farmers in Punjab and Haryana have access to canal irrigation that...

The official said that availability of the advance estimates of GDP will be required for Finance Ministry to prepare the General Budget.

Indian farmers had a difficult year in 2015 and their prospects are unlikely to improve in 2016, a report by economic policy thinktank NCAE...

“As of now, the wheat crop health is better than the previous year,” said agriculture secretary Ashish Bahuguna.

Production of foodgrains (comprising rice, wheat, pulses and coarse cereals) in 2013-14 crop year (July-June) stood at 264.77 million tonne...

"Wheat's sowing area has shown slight improvement and is at 161.57 lakh hectares as compared to last year's 159.11 lakh hectares," official...

Sowing of rabi crops is progressing with total area at 482.14 lakh hectare as on Friday.

The fall in production of rice and oilseeds pulled down the growth in the agriculture sector to 2.9 per cent.

Buoyed by high foodgrains production, the country's farm sector is expected to grow at 5.4 per cent in the current financial year, as again...

The country's agriculture sector recorded the lowest growth in five years, at 0.2 per cent, in fiscal year 2009-10 due to widespread drough...

Prime Minister's economic advisor C Rangarajan has said the economy is likely to grow by around 9 per cent in the fourth quarter.

The country’s grain production in 2009-10 would decline by nearly 18 million tonnes.

A review of 800 infrastructure projects by the government has revealed that no project is facing any funding problem, but almost 200 of the...

Agricultural districts in Maharashtra, which have been the mainstay of largescale foodgrain supplies to retail majors such as Reliance Fres...

With the actual wheat production in 2007-08 likely to fall short of the initial estimate of 75.53 million tonnes, triggering fears of the p...