In November, TOI had highlighted how wheat stacked in the open plinths near Rampura and Talwandi Sabo in Bathinda was rotting.

LS voiced concern over losses caused by unseasonal rains and hailstorms to the farm sector and demanded expeditious assistance to farmers i...

Addressing a poll rally here, he also attacked UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi for claiming to have made laws in favour of the poor.

The government should go ahead and lower the minimum export price of wheat of $274 per tonne to ship out around five million tonnes of whea...

Stocks have to be run down to prevent grain rotting by millions of tonnes in public stocks.

The FCI's website says that despite this hike, the wheat procurement actually dropped by 16.6% that year to 22.6 mn tonnes from 26.38 mn to...

The government said there had been no mismanagement in maintaining buffer stocks of wheat and rice as only a meagre quantity of foodgrains ...

As predicted by the ministry of agriculture, wheat farmers have begun to harvest what is shaping up to be a record crop, projected at 84.27...

India's chief auditor has decided to conduct a physical verification of state-run granaries as the country braces for a record grain output.

For several years now, the union government has been trying to get private parties to construct godowns instead, which it could then hire.

Supreme Court order asked the Centre to distribute foodgrain for free to the poorest instead of allowing it to rot due to lack of storage f...

'There's bound to be some damage when we stock grains three times the buffer', the minister of state for agriculture says.

On Friday, Sharad Pawar claimed that the media reports of rotting of millions of tonnes of foodgrains are "quite exaggerated" while arguing...

10 MT wheat is stored in the open & runs the risk of getting spoilt.

India's paddy crop will be lighter by 10 million tonnes this time due to the lack of rains. That should be reason enough for the country to...

Alleged mismanagement has destroyed huge stock of rice and wheat lying here at the 250-acre godown of the Food Corporation of India (FCI).

The govt should not increase the MSP for wheat.