Climate change impacts - including harsher heat, drought and floods - pose a major emerging threat to food security in India and elsewhere,...

Taking action on the matter, the Sindh Food Department has suspended three food officers. The suspended officials include the district food...

Tens of thousands spend hours daily to get the subsidized bags of flour that are already short in supply in the market. Chaotic scenes are ...

The prices of wheat flour, which is one of the key constituents of the staple diet of people in Pakistan, have skyrocketed amid the ongoing...

April is a month of strong demand for farmhands. But the lockdown has brought India to a complete standstill.

The COVID-19 related lockdown has affected the working in the jute mills thereby disrupting the production of jute bags. Textiles ministry ...

The norms need to be eased further as of the total seed sales, the private sector also has a substantial share,” said Ajay Vir Jakhar, chai...

The former Chief Minister pointed out that he had been repeatedly warning the government about the possibility of rains but nobody cared to...

While flood-hit people of Uttarakhand kept crying for succour, ration meant for them kept rotting in government godowns.

Akhilesh Yadav today said in case of any complaint of law and order problem action will now be taken against officers of DIG rank instead o...

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee gave this assurance when an angry Opposition sought greater availability of jute sacks for wheat before t...

Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: Food rationing.

The head of the United Nations World Food Program said that international price increases have created more hungry people worldwide than ev...

India on Wednesday scrapped its tender to buy one million tonnes of wheat from the world market. It is hoping to get a better price by wait...

After successfully using advance licences for tiding over sugar shortage, the government believes an incentive scheme may work for wheat as...

Sure wheat costs more. But consumers will get enough atta and maida to eat only after it becomes costlier by a further Rs 300/tonne.

Foreign shippers are now charging Rs 750 extra for every tonne of wheat they bring from Europe to India. That has made imported wheat more ...