The IMD has retained its forecast for a below-normal monsoon in 2026, with El Nino expected to dominate the June-September season and rainf...

The government is closely monitoring the prices of essential food commodities. At present, prices have remained stable and largely range-bo...

The 2026 monsoon comes with a clear warning: Rainfall is forecast at 92% of the long-period average, with higher-than-usual probability of ...

A fall in crude oil prices can trigger a relief rally, which in fact it did in early trade on Thursday. But there is another reality as wel...

Is there some factor playing out in the market that is not immediately visible? And is that factor an indication that while things are curr...

When a market is in a secular correction due to fears that the economy might take a hit for some reason, the fall is generally across the b...

India's retail inflation has shown limited impact from the West Asia conflict's energy price surge, with government measures cushioning con...

Global food prices saw their largest increase in 19 months this November, driven by a surge in vegetable oil prices due to lower palm oil o...

Food prices: The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that its world price index for food fell to a two-year low...

The Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) food price index, which tracks international prices of the most globally traded food commodit...

The Rome-based FAO also said in a statement that worldwide cereal harvests would come in at nearly 2.817 billion tonnes in 2021, slightly d...

FAO also issued its first forecast for world cereal production in 2021, predicting output of nearly 2.821 billion tonnes -- a new record an...

The global output was fuelled by increased wheat output in North America -by more than 10 million tonnes year on year -and increases in the...

The world is estimated to harvest a record 2,419 million tonnes of cereal crops in 2012-13 mainly on back of expected bumper maize crop in ...

Global wheat and other cereals output will jump to record highs this year, but the financial crisis is likely to hit the world farming sect...

Asian Development Bank today warned that India's foodgrain import could rise to 20 million tons by 2012 if adequate efforts were not taken ...

Owing to a slight decrease in global cereal output and significant growth in utilisation, world cereal stocks are expected to decline sharp...