India's government is urging states to focus on pulses and oilseeds for the upcoming kharif sowing season. This directive comes amid predic...

The government is closely monitoring the prices of essential food commodities. At present, prices have remained stable and largely range-bo...

Agriculture ministry has directed states to prepare district-wise crop strategies, and promote short-duration crops such as pulses, certain...

Villagers in Qazigund, Kashmir, are reviving the Panzath festival. This ancient tradition involves cleaning the Panzath Nag stream and ritu...

Paddy sowing during this Kharif season has surged by 58 per cent, reaching 13.22 lakh hectares, according to government data released on Ju...

Farmers have expanded paddy cultivation by 4.28% to 33.18 million hectares for the 2024-25 kharif season, driven by favorable monsoon forec...

Area under paddy crop increased by 4.4 per cent to 384.05 lakh hectares so far in the ongoing kharif season despite a lag in Andhra Pradesh...

India's National Rice Research Institute has allayed fears of further increases in rice prices following normal sowing of the crop for the ...

Paddy is the main kharif (summer) crop and more than 80 per cent of the country's total rice production happens during this season. Sowing ...

In non-food grains category, the area under coverage for oilseeds has grown 7.38 per cent to 134.04 LH from 124.83 LH. Under oilseeds, soya...

The nationwide lockdown has already hit the availability of labour in the ongoing wheat marketing season, and it is now set to affect sowin...

The paddy 1121 grade contracts were launched on ICEX platform on July 11, 2019.

Modi had last week announced that the Cabinet will approve the hike in MSP to at least 1.5 times of the production cost in the forthcoming ...

The decision on paddy is in line with the recommendation of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), a government advisory ...

Direct sowing of paddy reduces the cost of cultivation, results in greater yield as well as saves water and electricity.

In kharif season, paddy area will shrink in Punjab & Haryana; acreage under oilseeds, guar, soyabean, maize, jowar & bajra may decrease

Paddy production in drought- affected West Bengal is likely to fall by over 16 per cent during the current kharif season to 87 lakh tonnes.