India is seeking to boost its fertiliser reserves for the upcoming kharif sowing season by floating tenders for 1.7 million tonnes of urea ...

While the Madhya Pradesh government projects it as a major reform to streamline fertiliser distribution, industry stakeholders say it’s sti...

The Union Cabinet has approved significant hikes in Minimum Support Prices for 14 Kharif crops for the 2026-27 marketing season. Sunflower ...

India is set to import 2.5 million metric tons of urea. This move aims to strengthen domestic fertilizer supplies. The state-run agency Ind...

Soybean production in India has increased by about 6% to nearly 126 lakh tonnes due to favorable weather and improved farming methods. The ...

As per the latest estimate of Origo Commodities, India's total Kharif crop production for the crop year 2022-23 is estimated at 640.42 mill...

Earlier this week, the agriculture ministry released the first advance estimates for kharif season of 2022-23 crop year (July-June). As per...

The Centre on Thursday said it has chalked out a multi-pronged strategy to bring in an additional 6.37 lakh hectare area under oilseeds in ...

New varieties of seeds should be developed and special research should be conducted with the aim of increasing per-hectare soybean producti...

The country generally imports around 14.5-15 million tonnes of edible oil to meet its domestic consumption which is around 20 million tonne...

Industry body Soybean Processors Association of India (SOPA) revised the soyabean production estimates for 2015-16 downwards by 6.21% in it...

Davish Jain, chairman of the association said that these factors put together have resulted in heavy negative margins in soybean crushing.

Imported cooking oil prices for Aug shipment have dropped by 7-10%, which will make oils cheaper in the upcoming festive season by Rs 5 -7 ...

Above-normal rainfall across central, south-peninsular & western India could affect yield & production of crops in kharif growing states.

Although the final estimate on the extent of damage is yet to emerge, initial reports say there has been at least an overall 7% crop loss t...

MP will account for 66.86 lakh tonne of the total estimated production while Maharashtra can see 40 lakh tonne of production.

Kharif oilseed production is expected to go up by around 20 per cent to 16.1 million tonnes in the ongoing financial year as against the es...