As Egypt sought to diversify import origins, Supply Minister Aly Moselhy said in May that it had agreed to buy 500,000 tonnes of wheat from...

Over the next few days, the Union Cabinet is expected to decide on providing additional 2 kg grains to every NFSA beneficiary on a monthly ...

Around 200 families – who are reluctant to go to the enclave which now belongs to Bangladesh – would also be distributed rations free of co...

Addressing the Indian diaspora at the end of his two-day visit to Qatar, Modi said, "We have only cleaned up the surface (on corruption) an...

According to the CAG report, the shortfall in the off-take deprived the beneficiaries concerned from getting subsidised food grains.

Wheat futures prices today fell by Rs 6 to Rs 1,460 per quintal as speculators reduced positions amid higher supplies in the spot market.

US has put a spoke in India's attempts to export wheat even before the govt can get its act together on the proposal to ship 2 mn metric to...

The PM's economic adviser Dr C Rangarajan has recommended to the food and commerce ministries in mid-May an export subsidy of Rs 1,500 cror...

The decision to allow wheat exports may come to nothing, having got caught up inter-ministerial wrangling.

Although there is as yet no formal announcement on this, agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said that there was "no ban on wheat exports" as...

Food ministry plans to augment wheat and rice procurement by 10 mn tonnes to meet expected demand under proposed National Food Security Act.

The country's food subsidy bill is expected to jump by 27 per cent to Rs 74,231 crore in the 2010-11 fiscal, the Lok Sabha was told today.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the government is committed to tabling the National Food Security Bill in Parliament soon.

Govt likely to provide subsidised wheat & rice to 1.5 cr additional BPL families from Oct 2.

The Centre is strongly disinclined to subsidise wheat purchases by the private sector while opening up sale of wheat from the Food Corporat...

Two years of high priced imports in 2006 and 2007, one year of record output at 78.5 m tonnes and now, slam dunk into sub-sidized exports o...

For the first time, the Centre has asked four states - Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and West Bengal - to directly import wheat fo...