The BJP's decisive win in West Bengal signals a potential economic revival, with investors eyeing stocks poised to benefit from pro-growth ...

Home-cooked vegetarian and non-vegetarian thali costs rose 2% year-on-year in April, primarily due to increased prices of tomatoes, vegetab...

Bananas ripen quickly due to ethylene gas. A new method uses aluminum foil to wrap banana stems, limiting gas release and slowing ripening....

In Purba Bardhaman, potato farmers face price caps, weak markets and migration woes. As elections near, discontent simmers, but TMC still a...

Refrigerating potatoes is a common mistake that spoils their flavour and texture. Cold temperatures convert starch to sugar, causing bitter...

West Bengal's ban on interstate potato movement is crippling the cold storage industry and threatening potato growers with financial ruin. ...

Prices of two major food items, potato and rice, have decreased. Potato prices fell by 8% in 20 days due to an oversupply caused by West Be...

Potato arrivals have picked up in January and brought drown prices by Rs 3-6 per kg. In the ongoing season, rainfall had impacted the sowin...

West Bengal is expected to produce 105 lakh tonnes of potato this year which is 10% higher than last year. This was indicated by Tarun Kant...

An oversupply of potatoes in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal has left cold-storage facility owners in debt of over ₹200 crores.

The state government has already issued a notification in this regard, stating that potatoes can be kept in the cold storages till December...

According to traders, potatoes were stocked at a cost of Rs 8-12/kg around the time and was sold in retail at Rs 18-20/kg.

Farmers have been ploughing their produce in the ground. “What do we do? We carry these potatoes and vegetables to the market to find no bu...

On one side, while Government is blocking outflow of potato to other states from there, traders on the other side have stopped working to p...

Mamata Banerjee plans to buy 1 lakh tonne of potatoes from distressed farmers at remunerative prices, particularly from Singur.

Agra may be famous for its monuments, but it also holds 7% of India's cold storage capacity - more than in the whole of Punjab.

The West Bengal government plans to increase potato storage facilities in the state.