The Centre on Monday said about 8-10 per cent of the wheat crop is estimated to have been damaged due to recent untimely rains and hailstor...

Union food ministry, in a statement, said the Fair and Average Quality (FAQ) of wheat with shrivelled and broken grains has been relaxed up...

In June some private firms signed deals to import 500,000 tonnes of high-protein Australian wheat in the biggest such purchases in more tha...

The government will on priority distribute nearly 27 million tonnes of wheat it procured this year under the relaxed quality norms.

The Food Corporation of India (FCI) had set the wheat procurement target of 30 million tonnes for this season. Wheat procurement begins fro...

State-run Food Corporation of India has procured 27.6 MT of wheat in the 2015-16 marketing season, marginally lower than 28 MT last year.

Paswan said his ministry has proposed 10 per cent import duty on wheat to curb cheaper shipments as the country already has surplus stock.

The move is aimed at ensuring that wheat farmers get the full minimum support price (MSP) of Rs 1,450 per quintal.

Wheat procurement is underway. About 5.93 MT has been procured so far in the ongoing 2015-16 marketing year (April-March).

The Food Ministry has reduced the value cut for shrivelled and broken grains on the requests received from these four states.

Providing relief to farmers affected by unseasonal rains and hailstorms, the Centre today relaxed the quality norms for procurement of whea...

"As per norms prescribed under the Food Safety and Standards Act, we permit moisture content in the grain upto 14 per cent," Paswan said.

Unseasonal rains and hailstorms, being witnessed from February-end, have damaged rabi (winter-sown) crops in about 113 lakh hectares of are...

India hoped to export 3 million tonne of wheat to Iran this year, but no transaction has taken place as Iran is unsure about the quality of...

India has informed the US that it has set up a working group in the Planning Commission to focus on the quality of food products.

Good quality Indian wheat is still substantially cheaper than foreign grain. Bread and biscuit companies have not contracted foreign wheat ...

The government has thrown food safety standards to the winds by significantly diluting the quality norms for the latest wheat import tender...