Additionally, SEA has also requested distributors to monitor retailers in their distribution network to ensure that the Margin of Profit (M...

While sowing of some rabi crops is getting delayed, acreage of chickpea may decrease this year as farmers from Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and...

This coupled with the drought in some parts have impacted Rabi sowing and could aggravate the distress in the farm sector.

Higher stock at warehouses has kept the futures prices of the spice at NCDEX low.

Pulses acreage has grown to 121.74 lakh hectares from 110.80 lakh hectares. Oilseeds sowing area has risen to 72.23 lakh hectares from 65.7...

The survey is based on increase or decrease over last year’s actual government sowing data. About 95% soybean sowing has been completed all...

The sown area under Kharif crop in the country keeps on increasing but the overall area under summer crop may not be much higher than it wa...

Urea imports decreased 12% to 7.08 MT in 2013-14, due to carry-over stocks from previous year. India had imported 8.04 MT of urea in 2012-1...

Amid fall in sowing area and below normal monsoon reported this season, urea imports have decreased by 54% to 20.31 lakh tonnes in first fi...

Total area under wheat crop has increased by 5 per cent to 302.09 lakh hectare across the states in the ongoing rabi season so far.

Total area under wheat crop has increased by 8% to 273.97 lakh hectare across the states in the ongoing rabi season so far compared to 253....

The total acreage of wheat in the ongoing 2013-14 rabi season rose by 25 per cent to 127.47 lakh hectares as compared to 101.64 lakh hectar...

The area under cotton in Punjab and Haryana, where sowing has now begun, is likely to increase this season with farmers getting a better pr...

With Assembly elections in the state due to be held in September, they have the challenge of almost doubling agricultural production and pr...

The government will find it difficult to significantly improve prospects for the foodgrain year from an all-time record of 78.40 million to...

Groundnut production as well as its acreage in the country may go up by 10 pc this season if it is supported by adequate rainfall.

Sharpest fall of half million hectares in wheat is in rain-dependent Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, while in UP and Gujarat, acreage is down...