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Consumers unlikely to see major impact on food prices over next 2-3 months: Consumer Affairs SecyThe government is closely monitoring the prices of essential food commodities. At present, prices have remained stable and largely range-bo...
Macro, the Mightiest: Why India’s biggest macro variable still falls from the skyThe 2026 monsoon comes with a clear warning: Rainfall is forecast at 92% of the long-period average, with higher-than-usual probability of ...
Top fertiliser companies float tender to buy 600k t SulphurTop Indian fertiliser firms have united to buy a large quantity of sulphur. This critical raw material is needed for phosphatic fertilisers...
Iran president calls on people to save energyIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian asked citizens to reduce electricity use. He stated that the US and Israel aim to cause dissatisfaction...
El Nino impact: Which stocks will burn & which will fire up as market braces for heat waveIndia faces a strong El Niño, threatening below-normal rainfall and impacting agriculture. While rural-linked sectors like two-wheelers and...
India fertiliser output drops a quarter on Mideast warIndia's fertiliser production plunged nearly a quarter in March, official data showed, after natural gas imports used in its manufacture we...
Climate change is now coming for your OreosThe latest victims of climate change could be Oreos, as drenched fields across the US make the wheat that’s a key ingredient a scarcer comm...
Govt proposes up to 7% increase in MSP for Rabi cropsThe development comes ahead of the assembly election in the food bowl state of Haryana.
Late winter rains lower demonetisation pains for farmersLack of rains in November and December, this season, had increased the temperature by few degrees from normal.
Global warming, El Nino may wither wheat cropRising temperatures due to greenhouse gases and El Nino are said to be taking a toll on the wheat crop as late planting in the hottest year...
Wheat sowing area marginally down at 299.33 lakh hectaresWheat acreage has declined by about two per cent to 299.33 lakh hectares so far in the current rabi season, according to official data.
Madhya Pradesh wheat production to cross 174 lakh tonne mark: OfficialInitially, sowing took a knocking due to tepid winters in the state but picked up as mercury dipped in the second week of December, agricul...
Wheat sowing this season dips 3% to 279.6 lakh hectaresArea sown under coarse cereals, pulses and oilseeds is also lesser in the winter sowing season as compared to the year-ago period.
Farmers will not face urea shortage: Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur BadalPunjab has sought the Centre's intervention in stepping up urea supply while highlighting that its shortage was hampering wheat sowing in t...
Wheat acreage up by 1.5 per cent so far this Rabi season"Wheat's sowing area has shown slight improvement and is at 161.57 lakh hectares as compared to last year's 159.11 lakh hectares," official...
- Punjab, Haryana eye 285 lakh tonnes wheat for rabi 2012-13
As paddy harvesting is still going on in both the states, wheat sowing has not picked up pace with Haryana seeing crop sowing trailing, off...
- 'Fertilizer demand in rabi to be subdued if urea prices not revised'
The demand for P&K fertilisers will remain subdued in winter sowing season if urea prices are not revised, a top TCL official said.