In the first two months of monsoon this year, the state's overall rainfall deficit was at 49 per cent. Compared to the normal level of 508....

The rabi marketing season (RMS) runs from April to March. The 2021-22 Kharif Marketing Season started in October 2021 and will run till Sep...

More than 60 per cent of Odisha's population depends on the agriculture sector. The government had announced a special package of Rs 200 cr...

Fadnavis had held a meeting with his deputy Ajit Pawar a day earlier to discuss ways to provide additional support to distressed farmers.

Some states, especially Karnataka and Gujarat have made good progress so far in implementing the scheme, but there was a delay in rolling o...

The government had kicked off the scheme on June 1 without involving any of the four public sector general insurers, who control almost 50%...

The MeT department has projected 16 per cent deficiency in the remaining two months of the four-month season, that is, in August and Septem...

Centre has constituted nine member Inter-Ministerial Central Team to assess drought situation in Haryana and recommend financial assistance.

An Empowered Group of Ministers on drought headed by Agriculture Min Sharad Pawar today approved Rs 1,207 crore relief package to Maha.

The EGoM on drought, headed by Sharad Pawar, is scheduled to meet on August 8 to decide on further relief measures to mitigate the adverse ...

Karnataka CM has urged the Centre to announce a special package for potato farmers and also establish a potato research station in Hassan.

With farmers agitating in several parts of Orissa to press for adequate compensation to crop damage due to unseasonal rains, Patnaik today ...

The Centre is likely to declare Jharkhand and 30 of 38 Bihar districts as drought-hit. As a result, Jharkhand would receive Rs 850 crore an...

Haryana government today announced a package of Rs 12.67 crore to provide succour to the flood-ravaged farmers in the state.

Maha govt placed more than 20K villages in scarcity-hit category.

In addition the government has asked for a bonus of at least Rs 100 per quintal on paddy and Rs 50 per quintal on bajra, over and above the...

Agriculture minister Ajit Singh may have his way on the vexed issue of drought relief.