Govt launches portal to assist farmers and make India self-sufficient in pulsesThe portal was launched by Union Minister Amit Shah. It will facilitate the registration, purchase, and direct payment to farmers producing...
05 Jan, 2024, 02.40 PM IST
Chhattisgarh elections: Priyanka Gandhi promises Rs 500 subsidy per gas cylinder, loan waiver for SHGs and moreCongress party promised a slew of measures, including, waiving loans of Self-Help Groups, subsidising cooking gas cylinders through a new s...
30 Oct, 2023, 07.44 PM IST
India's lentils imports from Canada keep flowing despite tensionsIndia has increased its imports of lentils from Canada in the first ten months of 2023. India imported 1.09 million metric tons of lentils ...
26 Oct, 2023, 03.48 PM IST
Indian government continues to purchase Canada lentils for buffer stockThe Indian government is continuing to purchase lentils from Canada despite the strained diplomatic relations between the two countries. Th...
28 Sep, 2023, 09.30 AM IST
Canada's lentil sales to India slow after Trudeau raised murder suspicionsCanadian lentil sales to India have slowed down after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India of involvement in an assassinati...
27 Sep, 2023, 03.10 PM IST
Govt makes stock disclosure for masur mandatoryThe move has come at a time when National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) and National Cooperative Consumers...
06 Sep, 2023, 07.02 PM IST
India should try lentil cropsAustralian and Brazilian farmers are experimenting with crops such as arhar, urad and tur daal as they look to target the staple Indian die...
17 Jul, 2023, 12.18 PM IST
Govt needs to revisit import duty on chickpeas, lentils: IPGAIndia faces a tight supply-demand situation with respect to chickpeas (chana) and lentils (masoor dal), and the government needs to revisit...
19 May, 2021, 07.09 PM IST
Centre releases Rs 1250 crore for procurement of pulses“States can purchase 25% of the total production of these commodities at MSP. We have released Rs 1250 crore for the procurement of 1.71 la...
05 Apr, 2020, 03.37 PM IST
India may impose retaliatory tariffs on US goods from April 1The decision could derail the substantive package that India and US were working on to resolve trade issues.
06 Mar, 2019, 11.26 AM IST
Canada hopes to export more pulses to India on better growth prospectsIndia is the biggest importer, consumer and producer of pulses with consumption touching 22-23 million tonne annually.
29 Jun, 2016, 06.34 AM IST
Commerce Ministry to hold meeting with pulses importers tomorrowBased on the inputs from private trade, the government will decide on the amount of pulses to be imported by PSUs for the rest of the year ...
02 Dec, 2015, 02.32 PM IST
Government moves proposal to procure pulsesWith an aim to check spiralling prices of pulses, the government has moved a proposal for procurement and creating buffer stock of lentils,...
03 Nov, 2015, 03.36 PM IST
Agriculture Ministry proposes pulses buffer stock of 3.5 lakh tonnes in 2015-161.5 lakh tonnes of tur and urad will be procured in the kharif season and the rest 2 lakh tonnes of chana and masoor will be bought in the ...
01 Nov, 2015, 11.08 AM IST
Food, agriculture ministries at loggerheads over pulses import dutyIndia purchased 4.58 million tonnes of pulses in the 2014-15 fiscal from the overseas market as against 3.17 million tonnes in the previous...
08 Sep, 2015, 02.58 PM IST
Dry spell may push up pistachio, almond prices during festivityA spell of dry weather due to the El Niño and the weak monsoon in areas where almonds and pistachios and pulses and oilseeds are grown coul...
20 Jul, 2015, 04.06 AM IST
- MMTC issues tender to import 18,000 ton pulses by Nov
MMTC on friday floated a global tender to import 18,000 tons of arhar and masoor by November this year.
10 Aug, 2007, 03.45 PM IST