Andhra Pradesh: Incessant Rains and Floods Damaged Paddy on 1.80 Lakh Hectares
The incessant rains damaged paddy crops over a total of 1,80,243 hectares and horticulture crops over an extent of 17,645
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Month: September 2024
Grain-based Dedicated Ethanol Plants (DEPs) are facing an existential crisis
By Dr. C.K Jain Government of India (GoI) has formulated the National Biofuel Policy (2022) with an ambitious target of E20 i.e.
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Wheat rises on European crop worries
By Ole Hansen Wheat futures in Chicago and Paris are showing signs of recovery after recently hitting four-year lows, supported
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Telangana HC Questions Civil Supplies for Seizing Rice Millers’ Properties
By Vujjini Vamshidhar The Telangana High Court pulled up civil supplies department officials and district collectors for breaching the rules
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Need to remove basmati rice floor price to boost shipments, say exporters
By Reuters Indian authorities need to promptly cut or remove a floor price for basmati rice exports to help farmers
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Nutrition scientists push for going back to traditional mustard oil
By Rakshit Sharma Nutrition scientists at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) here have pushed for use of traditional mustard oil
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India’s pulse self-reliance dream fades amid rising imports and low yields
By Dhirendra Kumar Despite record sowing of pulses during the kharif season, India’s goal of becoming self-reliant in pulses by
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Punjab rice millers meet union food minister with demands
A delegation of the Punjab Rice Industry Association led by its president Bharat Bhushan Binta met with union food minister
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After record heatwaves, Bihar’s paddy farmers in distress due to poor monsoon rainfall third year in a row
By Mohd Imran Khan Hundreds of thousands of farmers in Bihar have been struggling with poor monsoon for the third
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Paddy, pulses and millet sowing area swells to 108.7 million hectares on better monsoon rainfall
By Dhirendra Kumar With better distribution of monsoon rainfall over the past fortnight, the sowing of paddy has exceeded the
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