By August 7, farmers have successfully planted Kharif crops at 87.7% of the expected seasonal average. While rainfall deficiencies have mit...

India debates ethanol mandates, drawing lessons from Brazil's Proalcool program. Brazil's initial success faced a late 1980s crisis due to ...

Kharif crop sowing has declined by three percent this season. Paddy and pulses acreage saw a notable decrease across several states. Coarse...

India's Kharif sowing gap narrowed significantly last week. This progress occurred despite a widening cumulative rainfall deficit over rece...

June was one of the worst monsoon months since records began to be kept. That is bad news for agro-chemical companies, though better rains ...

Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan urged ICAR to increase pulse and oilseed productivity. He emphasized research must address groun...

PGIM India's Puneet Pal expects the 10-year bond yield to trade between 6.60-6.90% over the next month, citing global rate hikes and a defi...

Kharif sowing lags significantly behind last year due to delayed and uneven monsoon rains. Paddy, pulses, and oilseeds acreage shows substa...

India's crucial monsoon season has begun sluggishly, with a significant rainfall deficit raising concerns for the farm economy. Delayed sow...

India's sugar industry concludes the current season with ample stocks, but the delayed, below-normal monsoon poses a significant concern fo...

Indian farmers are planting more soybeans this year. Higher prices for soybeans are making them more profitable than corn. Forecasts of les...

Erratic and uneven rainfall this year has affected sugarcane and rice cultivation in the country, which means less will be available for th...

ISMA is anticipating a better yield in 2015-16 SS, which may increase the sugarcane production and availability for crushing by sugar mills.

Sugarcane acreage in UP in 2014-15 would be around 9% less than 2013-14 sugar season, which may lead to lower production.

Despite a deficient monsoon, sugar production in the country is expected to go up by 4 per cent in the 2014-15 season.

Sugar production in India is estimated to touch 25 million tonne in the sugar season 2013-14 starting from October.

Satellite mapping of sugarcane acreage carried out for the first at at all India level shows increase of 3% than the government estimate.