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BRICS+ agriculture beyond borders: Trade and resilience for a food-secure worldWith India’s leadership and BRICS+ cooperation, agriculture can become not only a source of food, but a foundation for resilience, prosperi...- Science at scale: India’s journey from food security to global leadershipToday, India is the world’s largest producer of milk, pulses, and spices; the largest exporter of rice; and among the leading producers of ...
- Beyond rice, wheat: Why India must revive native ‘orphan crops’ for protein securityIndia can boost nutrition security, cut import dependence, and build a global smart protein industry by scaling climate-resilient indigenou...
- El Nino spells trouble for kharif harvests across IndiaA study by scientists at an ICAR institute has found that El Niño events have consistently reduced yields of major kharif crops in India, w...
- Packaging material crunch hits fertiliser, seeds companiesIndia's fertiliser and seed sectors face a packaging material crisis. The ongoing Iran war has disrupted supplies, increasing costs signifi...
- Economic Survey flags risks of biofuel incentives on cropping patternsThe Economic Survey warns that India's biofuel mandates, particularly for ethanol, risk distorting cropping patterns and food prices. While...
- Economic Survey 2026: Ethanol push risks squeezing pulses, oilseedsIndia's ethanol program has saved billions in foreign exchange. However, government policies favoring maize for ethanol are pushing farmers...
- UP ‘Shri Anna’ farmer show strong preference for govt procurement over open market salesProcurement of ‘Shri Anna’, which commenced on October 1, has now been successfully completed. This year, a total of 2.13 lakh metric tonne...
- How tribal cuisines benefitted after replacing millets with maizeTribal communities in central India gradually replaced traditional millets with maize, leading to significant changes in their cuisines. Ma...
- Millets in a bottle: Whisky companies go vocal for localHistorically, Scottish and Irish distillers have used barley as their primary grain, while Canadians and Americans use corn, rye, and wheat...
- Did the International Year of Millets make a difference?With all the focus on the wonders of millets, few were asking the obvious question — if they are indeed so amazing, why did people stop con...
- Lessons from history: What millet advocates can learn from an 18th-century epidemic diseaseIs a millet-heavy diet feasible in the long term? History says no.
- Wheat output seen rising 5%The production of rice is expected to increase marginally to 130.83 MT. India's overall production of foodgrains is estimated to be 322.55 ...
- Russia-Ukraine war impact: India's grain exporters are gearing up to fill the huge gaps in global stocks, especially wheatA protracted war in the Black Sea region and extended sanctions against Russia entail risks of economic upheaval across the world — and Ind...
- Keep type-2 diabetes at bay: Add bajra, jowar to your plateA millets-based diet can help manage blood glucose levels.
- Grain for green era: Benefits of millets and reasons why people give them upThey are ideal grains for an era of climate change.
- Enter the maize: How corn from the Old World replaced millet in IndiaRoasted bhuttas, or corn on the cob, is a much-loved monsoon treat.
- Climate change affects major crops in India: StudyResearchers from Columbia University in the US studied the effects of climate on five major crops in India: finger millet, maize, pearl mil...
- Gene map reveals how bajra survives extreme heat, droughtThe discovery published in the journal Nature Biotechnology may help develop climate adaptation strategies in other important food crops.
- India develops low water consuming varieties of rice, wheatWith depleting water resources in the country, govt has developed 41 varieties of rice & 22 varieties of wheat in the last one decade
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