The Union Cabinet has approved significant hikes in Minimum Support Prices for 14 Kharif crops for the 2026-27 marketing season. Sunflower ...

As the kharif season approaches, farmers are leaning towards cultivating oilseeds like soybean and pulses such as urad and masur, primarily...

The Centre has extended duty-free imports of tur dal until March 2026 to curb rising retail food prices. Despite some recent declines, reta...

In Pune, tur dal prices rose by over 10% in less than a month despite an open import policy. The industry cites raw material shortages and ...

Consumers substituted tur dal with imported green lentils in homes in southern and eastern India, while in the northern and the western reg...

In January this year, the government imposed a stock limit on tur and urad to prevent hoarding and unscrupulous speculation, and help impro...

Tur prices have stabilised following the recent government measure of tightening the stock limit on traders and processors. "However, the p...

India, the largest producer of pulses, is facing a shortage of tur dal, leading to increased imports. Issues such as hoarding and cartelisa...

The Indian high commission in Maputo has issued a press release to inform all exporters of tur/arhar dal in Mozambique that they can export...

The issue in tur (pigeon peas) is lower domestic production. The country's tur production remained lower at 30 lakh tonne in the 2022-23 cr...

The central government has imposed stock limits on tur and urad till October 31 due to a spurt in prices of these pulses. Apart from produc...

Tur is mainly imported from east African nations and Myanmar. These countries have an export surplus of 1.1-1.2 million tonnes, so availabi...

The government on Thursday signed an MoU with Myanmar to import 250,000 tonnes of urad and 100,000 tonnes of tur every year from 2021-22 to...

The retail tur dal prices crossed the psychological barrier of Rs 100/kg and touched Rs 125/kg for the top quality, with millers reporting ...

The additional quota can be over 7-8 lakh tonne for tur only, said a trader in Delhi.

Wholesale prices of whole tur have crossed the minimum support level set by government after a gap of 2.5 years.

Tur accounts for 15% of the total pulses production in India. Domestic prices of tur have been higher than the international prices over th...