Agriculture
UP farmers threaten stir over cane procurement price hike
06 November 2009
Government hikes support prices for rabi crops
05 November 2009
India downplays Chinese activity on the Brahmaputra
05 November 2009
Government to ensure food availability, prices may stay high: Pawar
04 November 2009
India aims to be world's food factory
04 November 2009
India's poultry industry to grow to Rs60,000-crore by 2010
04 November 2009
Monsanto opens biotech research center in China
04 November 2009
Chinese construction activity on Brahmaputra confirmed
04 November 2009
Government may resort to direct rice imports
04 November 2009
Kharif rice procurement up 1.68 lakh tonnes
31 October 2009
Chattisgarh says 'no' to Bt brinjal
26 October 2009
Tasmania farmers urge National Foods boycott as talks fail
23 October 2009
Approval of Bt brinjal mindless and deadly, say protesters
23 October 2009
Australia lifts ban on beef imports
21 October 2009
India to determine if China is damming the Brahmaputra
16 October 2009
Bt brinjal becomes first GM food crop to gain regulatory approval
15 October 2009
Government to sell 30 lakh tonnes of wheat in open market in Q2 2009-10
06 October 2009
More sugar woes: floods may delay crushing season
06 October 2009
Flood toll mounts in Karnataka, Andhra
05 October 2009
Storage of important reservoirs in the country
05 October 2009
Drought may squeeze GDP growth to just 5.4 per cent: study
05 October 2009
Global food production needs to increase 70 per cent by 2050: FAO
26 September 2009
Rice to cost more, warns Pawar
25 September 2009
Canadian potash industry wilts as farmers hold out on prices
23 September 2009
Monsoon deficit slumps further to 21 per cent
19 September 2009
Norman Borlaug: the man who fed a hungry world
14 September 2009
Blue Star launches new storage system for seeds
12 September 2009
Andhra declares near-total drought, seeks Rs4,000 crore aid
10 September 2009
India's farm exports seen topping Rs1,00,000 crore in 5 years
09 September 2009
Milk producers seek import curbs, duty relief on inputs
04 September 2009
SBI unveils agri loan package to help drought hit farmers
04 September 2009
India not to concede ground on agriculture at WTO meet
31 August 2009
Punjab seeks Rs7410 crore drought relief package
27 August 2009
Cadbury to add Fairtrade mark to Dairy Milk brand in Canada, Australia and New Zealand
26 August 2009
Scrapped RIL farm project unviable, says Punjab
24 August 2009
Damage control: Government cheapens loans to sugar mills by 3 per cent
22 August 2009
Pranab hints at import of edible oils, pulses
21 August 2009
Nearly half of India is drought affected: Sharad Pawar
21 August 2009
Government announces big hike in support prices of paddy, pulses
20 August 2009
Pawar talks to producers as sugar prices soar
19 August 2009
Pawar hints at open market sale of wheat, rice to state governments
19 August 2009
Drought will slash Bihar’s corn, rice output: Nitish Kumar
18 August 2009
Pawar asks state chief ministers to monitor drought, price rise
17 August 2009
Nationalised banks take the largest chunk of credit disbursement
17 August 2009
Poor monsoon may push up edible oil imports 27 per cent
14 August 2009
Winter crop too may be poor, admits IMD
14 August 2009
At least a quarter of India is drought-hit, admits Pranab
12 August 2009
About 45 per cent of India’s land degraded and useless: Ramesh
12 August 2009
Minister plugs for GM crops as UK launches food debate
11 August 2009
India's export of fruits and vegetables to Asian and African countries rise
07 August 2009
Andhra's Pollavaram project bad, Orissa’s Patnaik tells PM
06 August 2009
Monsoon remains shaky as ‘trough’ vanishes
03 August 2009
India's foodgrain production growth exceeds population growth rate
01 August 2009
Nutreco to acquire Cargill’s animal nutrition operation in Spain and Portugal
29 July 2009
China could lower tariffs for agriculture imports: study
29 July 2009
Government approves Rs13,597-crore revival package for agricultural coops
28 July 2009
Government hikes MSP for copra by Rs790 a quintal
25 July 2009
Drought likely if monsoon fails to pick up now
20 July 2009
Bengal ends forced land acquisition, scraps road project
17 July 2009
Feasibility report on 16 river interlink projects ready: minister
17 July 2009
Syngenta to boost pollinators across Europe
16 July 2009
Sugar production takes a hit as over 200 private, co-op mills close
15 July 2009
Wheat, paddy MSP may be hiked: Pranab Mukherjee
15 July 2009
Montek says monsoon situation is better, PM still worried
14 July 2009
Government reimposes wheat export ban; sets up panel on food security
13 July 2009
El Nino weather pattern developing slowly, but surely
09 July 2009
Government working on Food Security Act details: Pawar
07 July 2009
Government allows state-run firms to export wheat
04 July 2009
Indian monsoon advances, covers entire country before due date
04 July 2009
Monsoon ends heat wave in North India
02 July 2009
Pawar unfazed by slow monsoon, but official worried
29 June 2009
Irrigation can reduce impact of late monsoon: Ahluwalia
27 June 2009
Government clamps down on commodities amid uneasy monsoon
26 June 2009
Government hikes sugarcane support price to Rs107.76 per quintal
25 June 2009
IMD’s monsoon predictions revised downwards once again
25 June 2009
Monsanto to shed 900 jobs as Roundup sales betray expectations
25 June 2009
Monsoon may be below normal, say IMD and government
24 June 2009
KS Oils expands Indonesian acquisition by 35,000 acres
24 June 2009
CPI for agricultural and rural labourers up at 10.21 per cent in May
23 June 2009
Weatherman predicts rainy days as monsoon advances
22 June 2009
Jute support price raised to Rs1,375 a quintal
19 June 2009
Coy monsoon delays kharif planting
16 June 2009
Nokia launches Life Tools service across India
12 June 2009
Monsanto-BASF team discovers drought-tolerent gene in corn plants
11 June 2009
Low supprt price drives TN farmers away from sugarcane: report
08 June 2009
Pawar calls for doubling farm productivity
04 June 2009
Food scarcity not linked to ethanol, asserts Brazil
04 June 2009
Monsoon tomorrow, says weatherman
23 May 2009
IMD re-affirms prediction of early, strong monsoon
20 May 2009
India lifts ban on wheat futures
16 May 2009
Government strips Nafed of sugar import task
15 May 2009
Indian weather bureau predicts slightly early monsoon
14 May 2009
Seed giant Monsanto challenges German ban on GM corn
04 May 2009
FICCI calls for tax benefits to firms investing in farm research
27 April 2009
US farm, trade bodies peeved at restricted market for cotton, wine in India
22 April 2009
UN adds another 100 million people to ‘new hungry’ list
18 April 2009
Met forecasts ‘near-normal’ monsoon
18 April 2009
Genetic engineered crops fail to significantly boost yields
15 April 2009
India's April-February spice exports top $1-billion despite the slump
07 April 2009
Monsanto abandons controversial GM seeds trial after protests
04 April 2009
GM crops not evil: Ahluwalia
27 March 2009
Government may lift wheat export ban after elections: report
05 March 2009
India's sugar production seen lower at 16.5 million tonnes
24 February 2009
Government implementing 2 schemes for horticulture development
20 February 2009
India's foodgrain production in 2008-09 to touch 228 million tonnes
12 February 2009
India allows duty-free sugar imports for domestic sale
03 February 2009
Government hikes support prices for rabi crops
29 January 2009
Health Ministry funds project to find alternative crops for bidi, chewing tobacco
22 January 2009
Punj Lloyd JV to execute Rs1,311-crore project in Libya
15 January 2009
Emerging economy consumers more willing to act on environment than in the West: Accenture
15 January 2009
Society needs biotech innovation says father of GM crops
08 January 2009
Maharashtra unveils 6,200 crore farm relief package
30 December 2008
Rice procurement up 2.4 million tonnes at 28.50 million tonnes
26 December 2008
India contributes 1.5 lakh tonnes grain to SAARC Food Bank
22 December 2008
Restricted finances knock tractor sales by 20 per cent
19 December 2008
Rice procurement up 13.5 per cent at 28.5 million tonnes
13 December 2008
Food v/s fuel: the great ethanol debate
13 December 2008
ITC wins Top UNIDO Award for e-Choupal
01 December 2008
Australia’s AWB, ABB Grain talk merger
29 November 2008
EU members agree on agriculture reforms, subsidy cuts
22 November 2008
TERI, and DBT license Bollcure bio-pesticide for manufacturing
30 October 2008
Pressure on sugar mills as UP government hikes cane prices again
21 October 2008
Nabard releases Rs10,200 crore under debt waiver scheme
17 October 2008
Bio-Energy not at the cost of food security: Sharad Pawar
17 October 2008
Government to pay bonus of Rs50 per quintal of paddy
16 October 2008
Nearly 6,200 Raigad farmers vote on Maha Mumbai SEZ
22 September 2008
Government allows export of premium rice variety Pusa-1121
04 September 2008
Punjab’s Markfed signs MoU with global agri-business company Syngenta
30 August 2008
Pawar disfavours quitting WTO
16 August 2008
High corn hits both ethanol producers and food industry
11 August 2008
New pricing policy to boost investment in urea plants
09 August 2008
HCC to also execute Phase 111 of Andhra lift irrigation project
06 August 2008
Tata Chemicals joint venture Khetse to invest Rs212 crore
31 July 2008
Kamal Nath asks US to offer 'real' cuts in farm subsidy
23 July 2008
Western subsidies undermining food security in developing world: India
19 July 2008
Kamal Nath calls for fair deal for developing countries in WTO negotiations
18 July 2008
Argentine senate defeats presidential tax proposal as VP votes against government
18 July 2008
Government may offload 6 million tonnes of grains in open market sales
16 July 2008
Government lifts import duties on cotton
09 July 2008
Argentina's government-farmer stand-off heats up as Congress approves new tax
07 July 2008
Philippines beer maker San Miguel in agribusiness joint venture with Shangri-La Hotel chain owner
04 July 2008
USDA estimates corn planted acreage down 7 per cent from 2007
01 July 2008
Monsanto to commercialise BASF's soyabean fungicide seed tratment
24 June 2008
Argentine farmers’ ease 3-month strike as protesters agree to meet President
23 June 2008
US corn prices soar as floods inundate Midwest crops
16 June 2008
Bayer CropScience opens rice research laboratory in Singapore
16 June 2008
SBI leads public sector banks in farm loan waiver
03 June 2008
Cadbury and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University join hands for cocoa research project
30 May 2008
SBI puts loans for agri mechanisation on hold
19 May 2008
Jain Irrigation to set up Rs550 crore project in Jalgaon, signs MoU with state government
15 May 2008
Bayer CropScience launches first global hybrid rice variety resistent to bacterial leaf blight in India
15 May 2008
India warns against diluting farm protection at world trade talks
15 May 2008
Tata Chemicals, Total Produce distribution venture Khet-Se Agriproduce goes operational in Punjab
14 May 2008
Wheat prices may rise after record procurement, say traders
06 May 2008
Rising food prices need global perspective: CII responds to Bush-Rice India-baiting
05 May 2008
Bush, Rice say rising food consumption in India, China raising prices
03 May 2008
Interests of India’s low income and resource poor agricultural producers will be safeguarded at Doha Round: Kamal Nath
02 May 2008
India's wheat procurement touches 13.5 million tonnes
29 April 2008
CCEA approves Rs429 crore schemes to boost farm exports
18 April 2008
India, New Zealand to increase cooperation in agriculture
25 March 2008
Finance Minister puts numbers to his Rs60,000 crore loan waiver plan
15 March 2008
Switchover to bio-fuels could threaten edible oil production
04 March 2008
India doubles cotton output; sidelines the US to become world's second largest producer
19 February 2008
FM starts pre-budget meeting sessions with agricultural experts
18 February 2008
India seeks market access to export agri products to Australia
18 January 2008
Maharashtra to withdraw ethanol export fee
07 January 2008
India, Brazil, Vietnam launch cashew alliance
08 December 2007
Agriculture is key to world trade deal, say developing countries
17 November 2007
Rice buffer stock rises to 10.62 million tonnes
17 November 2007
Coffee sector allocation raised to Rs750 crore in 11th plan
31 October 2007
Brazil farm lobby wants government to make more concessions in the WTO
17 October 2007
States provide for contract farming in Agricultural Produce Marketing Regulation Acts act
25 August 2007
Agriculture needs private sector linkages: Indo-American Chamber of Commerce
20 August 2007
Government to substantially hike wheat, rice support price next year
18 August 2007
Hunger crisis due to climate change stalks India: UN
16 August 2007
Punjab''s organic cotton looking at German markets
09 August 2007
Cabinet set to review pricing policy for farm sector
08 August 2007
President Pratibha Patil calls for agricultural growth
07 August 2007
Centre to assist Nabard raise funds
21 July 2007
Kamal Nath asks private sector to supplement government''s farm sector initiatives
17 July 2007
Agricultural production seen rising 2.6 per cent in FY 08: CMIE
16 July 2007
Taiwan rejects US wheat over pesticide
16 July 2007
Russia may lift ban on Indian rice soon
14 July 2007
Cadbury India to sell cocoa seedlings to TN farmers
02 July 2007
Innovative rice enrichment technology facility opens in China
27 June 2007
Cotton exports: India outperforming US in China
21 June 2007
Government increases sugar buffer stock to 5 million tonnes
21 June 2007
NAFED hikes export price of onion by $80 per tonne
20 June 2007
Government weighs take-over of closed tea gardens
15 June 2007
Organised food retailing can increase rural income, cut inflation: CRISIL
13 June 2007
Spices Board to open retail outlets
04 June 2007
Government cancels wheat import tender, extends procurement period
29 May 2007
Government earmarks Rs25,000 crore to boost farm output in 4 years
29 May 2007
Researchers develop new generation herbicide-resistant transgenic crop
26 May 2007
Government to roll-out ''big'' farm package
23 May 2007
Incentives for states to raise agro output
15 May 2007
Per capita foodgrain availability lowest in India since 1980, says plan panel
10 May 2007
Government formulating contract farming policy, says Pawar
05 May 2007
Planning Commission to mull higher budgetary support to agriculture
27 April 2007
IFFCO sets up new company to strengthen rural network, sells GFCL stake
17 April 2007
Pakistan sells 4,000 tonne wheat to India
12 April 2007
Farmers prefer private traders to FCI
02 April 2007
Government approves Rs850 crore sugar export subsidy as production peaks
27 March 2007
MP farmers prefer to sell wheat to private companies
22 March 2007
US may offer to trim farm subsidies for greater market access
14 March 2007
Wheat farmers may get Rs50/quintal bonus
13 March 2007
28-member EU agriculture delegation on 5-day visit
06 March 2007
Government adds Rs25-50 bonus to wheat MSP to beat private competition
06 March 2007
India joins move to revive WTO trade talks
03 March 2007
Food security is as important as national security, says Arun Firodia
01 March 2007
Union Bank ties up with post offices in Maharashtra to disburse farm loans
01 March 2007
Agriculture top priority for overall growth: FM
28 February 2007
Farm sector gets top priority as budget looks for inclusive growth
28 February 2007
RIL may provide agri research funding to agricultural university
20 February 2007
Tata Tea, IFC, IL&FS join hands for North India operations
20 February 2007
PNB launches new scheme for farmers
17 February 2007
WB approves agricultural-loan package for Tamil Nadu
25 January 2007
Futures trading in tur, urad banned
24 January 2007
India overtakes China in GM crops
20 January 2007
Pakistan plans to move WTO over basmati rights
15 January 2007
Government puts new AEZ proposals on the backburner
04 January 2007
CCEA hikes sugarcane support price to Rs81.18
22 December 2006
Pawar calls for setting up SAARC Food Bank
15 December 2006
MMTC to import 15,000 tonne pulses
14 December 2006
Organised retail of food, groceries can double farm incomes at current prices: CRISIL
12 December 2006
US pushes farm trade with India
22 November 2006
Dubai Flower Centre gears up for Indian floriculture market
19 October 2006
Voltas partners Besseling for post-harvest storage solutions
25 August 2006
Indian and Sri Lankan tea boards to develop electronic auction platform
03 July 2006
BoB to finance HMT, New Holland''s tractor purchases
17 November 2005
Yes Bank ties-up with Dutch institute for Agrofood Parks in India
08 September 2005
Bajaj Hindusthan announces Rs.750 crore expansion plan
12 July 2005
Tata Tea, HLL exit tea plantations
10 June 2005
IMD forecasts delayed monsoons
19 May 2005
Export potential Indian farm products not fully tapped: EXIM
23 March 2005
Escorts wins $8.56-million tractors export order from Ghana
03 March 2005
Coffee futures trading goes online for the first time in India
23 February 2005
Indian Immunologicals enters into joint venture with US-based CRI for livestock breeding
01 February 2005
State Bank of Mysore disburses Rs650-crore farm loans
18 January 2005
2004 notches record growth for bt crops says US study
14 January 2005
Moratorium on repayment of loans in coastal areas
13 January 2005
Coir cluster development project to generate 23,000 jobs
11 January 2005
ING Vysya Foundation signs agreement to donate Rs. 29 lakhs towards Water Harvesting project in Rajasthan
07 January 2005
ICICI Bank farm credit to touch Rs7000 crore
29 December 2004
CII Ag-India 2004
26 November 2004
TN receives Rs150-crore central assistance for bio fuel production
29 October 2004
Kharif foodgrain output estimates lowered
21 September 2004
M&M seeks to emerge as a global player
25 August 2004
UA Agrocoop enters Chennai market
19 August 2004
French, Philippine companies to invest in food processing sector in Kerala
09 August 2004
Global body to be formed for Vanilla promotion
23 July 2004
Agricultural marketing in India
13 July 2004
Productivity in Indian agriculture
03 July 2004
Farmer, money lender and banker
25 June 2004
Fisheries workshop at Kochi
21 June 2004
Exports of spices decline
21 May 2004
Rains play havoc with crops in Kerala
12 May 2004
Bank of Baroda ties up with Punjab Tractors
22 March 2004
Hyderabad to be venue of Agritex ''04
29 January 2004
Kerala to popularise cultivation of medicinal, aromatic plants
08 December 2003
Spices Board to participate in International Food Fair, Sharjah
06 December 2003
Pepper prices to fall further
24 November 2003
Solar Nursery, Nandan Agro Farms in pact for Safed Musli
10 November 2003
Citrus greenhouse in Punjab
23 September 2003
Kharif oilseeds production to touch 131 lakh tonnes this season
22 September 2003
Upasi meet on 26 September
19 September 2003
Interest rates on crop loans cut
17 July 2003
Truckers'' strike: vegetables prices may shoot up in Kerala
15 July 2003
Truckers stir to affect Kerala
12 July 2003
Cashew calamity in Kerala
10 July 2003
Getting out of the woods
25 June 2003
Initiative to promote sustainable agri-practices, courtesy CropLife
21 May 2003
Nabard’s aid of Rs 854 crore to Kerala for rural development
03 April 2003
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