StarAgri CEO Amith Agarwal advocates a bigger private-sector role in MSP procurement and storage to boost efficiency, warehousing capacity,...

Indian Oil Marketing Companies have increased petrol and diesel prices by Rs 3 per litre each, and CNG by Rs 2/kg, following daily losses o...

Experts say wheat procurement may be constrained by limited storage, while exports remain largely uncompetitive globally.

The National Level Coordination Committee (NLCC) chaired by Ashish Kumar Bhutani reviewed India's grain storage project progress initiated ...

The prime minister talked about various initiatives taken by the government in the last 10 years for the growth of the cooperative sector a...

Addressing a gathering here, the prime minister said the cooperative sector is instrumental in shaping a resilient economy and propelling t...

State-owned NBCC has secured a Rs 1,500 crore project management consultancy contract for the construction of 1,469 warehouses and agricult...

NBCC shall initially construct 1469 grain storage units across various states of India with an approximate value of Rs 1500 crore. These un...

Chinese people waste a whopping $32.6 billion worth of food every year which could potentially feed 200 million people, while 35 billion kg...

Post-harvest loss in foodgrains in India worked out to six per cent and 18 per cent in case of fruits and vegetables, a top official in the...

The government has directed Nabard to treat these states favourably to cut farm losses amid implementation of the world’s biggest populatio...

The demand for foodgrain warehousing is expected to grow by 5-6 per cent annually in the next five years, according to a report by Rabobank.

If the food security Bill is finally implemented, all it will do is to supplement part of what the states spend on food subsidy with money ...

Govt is ready with a blueprint to build grain silos through public-private partnerships to meet the procurement and storage requirement

The study acquires significance given that the Food Corporation of India, has come under intense criticism of late over the quantity of gra...

An expert panel, headed by Abhijit Sen, will soon come up with a comprehensive study on the economics of building modern silos for food gra...

Seven years after the government mooted private sector participation via build-own-operate basis for bulk handling, storage and transportat...