Farmers call the hike inadequate while industry warns of rising cane arrears

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

India's food reserves are robust. Wheat and rice stocks in FCI godowns are nearly three times the mandatory buffer. This ensures ample supp...

Experts say wheat procurement may be constrained by limited storage, while exports remain largely uncompetitive globally.

The Supreme Court is currently reviewing an appeal aimed at elevating the significance of state-led assessments of farming costs in the est...

Some of the key reasons for rice inflation include consistent increase in the minimum support price (MSP), government procurement of rice a...

The Indian government has procured 52.06 million tonnes of rice since the start of the 2022-23 marketing season, benefiting 1.12 crore farm...

The Indian Rice Exporters Association is hoping the commerce ministry will take up the issue at the forthcoming RCEP ministerial meeting to...

To supplement farm income, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) increased paddy procurement price by 13 per cent in 2018 and this year.

The ability of the Indian rice millers to pass on the increase in the MSP would be constrained by the propensity of the importing countries...

In the analysis, agricultural gross value added/growth in minimum support price (MSP) of rice and wheat has been considered a proxy for an ...

To fulfill its commitment of supplementing farmers’ income and address rising distress among farmers, the govt announced an increase in MSP...

Rao said Telangana government is strictly monitoring whether the millers are paying MSP to the farmers before they deliver rice under levy.

The government aims to procure a record 40 million tonnes of rice from farmers in the ongoing 2012-13 marketing year that started this mont...

The Centre is likely to peg the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy in the coming kharif season at Rs 1,000 or more per quintal.

There is no move yet within the government to announce a bonus for wheat as it may further fuel inflation.

Increase in the MSP for rice, from the current Rs 725 per quintal, has become a ticklish political issue in the state with political partie...