A farmer with his mustard crop in field on a rainy day, in Lucknow on March 20, 2023. | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on March 21 said there is not much impact on standing rabi crops like wheat due to the current untimely rains and hailstorm, as per preliminary report. … Read more
A lady farm worker weeding at a mustard field near Jaipur, Rajasthan | File Photo | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Congress government in Rajasthan will shortly launch an initiative to enable farmers to assess the damage caused to their crops by natural calamities on their own, and report it to the revenue authorities for … Read more
New Delhi: Area under coverage for wheat jumped over five-fold to 7.56 lakh hectares in the ongoing winter sowing season ‘rabi’, according to agriculture ministry data. Wheat acreage stood at 1.47 lakh hectares in the year-ago period. In case of oilseeds, about 47.10 lakh hectares coverage has been reported as on November 4 of this … Read more
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the increase in the Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for all mandated Rabi crops for Rabi Marketing Season (RMS) 2022-23. It has announced the highest increase of 8.6% in prices of mustard, while the second highest increase of 7.8% is … Read more
PUNE: Late-season rainfall, likely caused by the retreating monsoon, has damaged the harvest-ready Kharif crop in Maharashtra and the adjoining regions of Andhra Pradesh-Telangana, putting further pressure on the already high prices of onions, pulses, soyabean and staple greens. Besides these, cotton, tomato, vegetables, banana and grape crops have also been damaged. While states are … Read more