India and New Zealand have signed a Free Trade Agreement. This pact offers zero-duty access for most Indian exports. Key sectors like texti...

As onion and soyabean prices decline in India, industry and farmer groups urge the government for support measures such as reducing onion e...

The Ministry of Food Processing Industries plans to introduce an interest subvention scheme for private firms setting up cold-storage facil...

Wheat prices have declined by 15% in the last four days after the central government tightened the stock holding limit on traders and proce...

While states are yet to carry out field surveys to assess the actual losses, they say that the highest loss in Maharashtra will be of the s...

On September 14, the government banned the export of all varieties of onions with immediate effect, a move aimed at increasing availability...

Earlier, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman informed Parliament that the government has taken steps to rein in onion prices and has initia...

India, which is currently witnessing a spike in retail onion price up to Rs 100/kg on tight supply, should explore low-cost modern technolo...

What the government is doing is hurting farmers rather than resolving the country’s onion mess.

“We are in the process of finalizing the scheme and will be placing it before the Standing Finance Committee. Once approved, it will be lau...

The ministry added that post World Food Fair held in 2017, foreign direct investment in the sector was flowing in at a fast pace.

The government has proposed to launch an ‘‘Operation Greens’’ on the lines of ‘‘Operation Flood’’.

Farmers are selling potato at prices as low as Rs 3 a kg in Uttar Pradesh, down from Rs 10-12 last year.

It's impossible to tell why onion prices have gone through the roof, when onion production has jumped from about 42 lakh MT to 163 lakh MT ...

In the past 10 years, between 2002-03 and 2012-13, onion production has jumped from about 42 lakh metric tons (LMT) to 163 LMT.

Politics of free power and failure of regulatory authorities to stamp out power theft and allow the needed hikes in tariffs have eroded the...

Commerce ministry will soon move a Cabinet note seeking to allow unrestricted exports of processed food.