NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar led a protest demanding the government buy onions at Rs 25 per kg. Farmers are selling produce at distress prices ...

Procurement of ‘Shri Anna’, which commenced on October 1, has now been successfully completed. This year, a total of 2.13 lakh metric tonne...

The Centre has set a rice procurement target of 463.50 lakh tonnes for the Kharif season. In a meeting chaired by Union Food Secretary Sanj...

Despite much fanfare in the past few years, millets are still not the first choice of grain in the country for a variety of reasons. Every ...

The praiseworthy efforts to make mainstream millets in the food system are in danger of losing steam because of a lack of incentives to att...

The target was fixed after a deliberation with state food secretaries in a meeting chaired by Union Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra in the na...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has urged ITC Chairman Sanjiv Puri to deploy a team to Karnataka for sourcing Sri Anna millets from dro...

The purchase at the minimum support price will give a boost to the cultivation of coarse grains which are eco-friendly, climate resistant a...

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced an investment of over Rs 2,500 crore to support millet farmers in the state. The state launc...

In a cabinet meeting chaired later by Baghel, it was decided to constitute a 'Mahua Board' to promote its collection, value addition, proce...

"With a view to promote consumption of millets in light of the UN declaring 2023 as the International Year of Millets, the Indian Army has ...

Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel in a tweet on Saturday night said he had written a letter to the central government proposing inclusion of mi...

Millets products such as ragi biscuits, cookies, ladoos, baked millet chips etc. as snacks to be served in the meetings.

The new MSP, to be considered by the cabinet on Wednesday, will largely apply to paddy and pulses but will benefit ‘nutri-cereals’ like mil...

A high-level committee chaired by Niti Aayog member Ramesh Chand will soon recommend inclusion of millets to the grains supplied under PDS.

The higher prices are due to lower wheat output expected this year, as well as the higher minimum support price announced by the government...

The proposal is to supply and procure organic products including millets of approximately 800 metric tonnes, valued at Rs 14.50 crore from ...