Agriculture

Sugar industry seeks export sops as dues to cane farmers top Rs15,000 crore

14 Mar 2015

NGOs oppose Greenpeace co-founder’s campaign to promote `golden rice’

12 Mar 2015

Global food prices at 5-year low even as Indians see inflation

10 Mar 2015

Global food prices fell to a near five-year low in February this year on increased supply of key food items and a strong US dollar, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation

India may see good monsoon as El Nino predicted weak

05 Mar 2015

Union Budget 2015-16: Boosts agricultural productivity to promote rural welfare

28 Feb 2015

Amul to invest Rs5,000 cr to expand milk processing capacity

19 Feb 2015

Government targets 30 million tonnes wheat procurement in 2015-16

17 Feb 2015

No respite for Indian consumer as several nations ban pesticide-laden vegetables

11 Feb 2015

Subsidy reforms will curb India’s food inflation: Moody’s

29 Jan 2015

Subsidy reforms will curb India’s food inflation: Moody’s

29 Jan 2015

India, US again at loggerheads in Geneva over farm subsidies

29 Jan 2015

Despite the bonhomie during President Barak Obama's Delhi visit this week, disagreements again flared up between the US and India at the first informal meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Geneva on Wednesday over the stockpiling of grains for food security

India, US again at loggerheads in Geneva over farm subsidies

29 Jan 2015

Super-tomato big enough to feed four launched in UK

27 Jan 2015

The 'Gigantomo' is so big that one tomato alone can serve up to four people and just one slice fills an entire burger bun or sandwich

Food Corp’s labourers earns up to Rs4 lakh monthly: panel report

24 Jan 2015

Govt panel against breaking up Food Corp monopoly

22 Jan 2015

Panel suggests FCI handing over grain procurement to states

22 Jan 2015

The committee has recommended a scaling down of NFSA coverage from 67 per cent of population to around 40 per cent and scaling up of grains supplied to priority households under TPDS from 5 kg per person to 7kg per person

Good for farmers, bad for consumers: EU to lift ban on Alfonso

20 Jan 2015

The European Union today voted to lift its ban on the import of mangoes from India in view of what it saw as significant improvements in plant health controls and certification systems

Government moves to rein in subsidies, starting with urea

19 Jan 2015

UK farmer forced to butcher aggressive ‘Nazi’ cows

06 Jan 2015

Nazi scientists had actually managed to breed a herd of genetically-engineered cows which have turned out to be so aggressive that a UK farmer has been forced to chop up half his stock into meat as they they repeatedly tried to kill his staff

Intelligence Bureau gets proactive, blames govt for farmer suicides

23 Dec 2014

India’s domestic spy agency seems to be taking an unprecedented interest in economic policies

Irrigation scam probe cleared, Maharashtra govt tells High Court

12 Dec 2014

Advocate general Sunil Manohar today told the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court that the state government had approved an Anti-Corruption Bureau probe in the irrigation scam