Punjab: Phasing out paddy
PUNJAB’s draft Agriculture Policy has laudably recommended a ban on all long-duration paddy varieties and paddy cultivation in 15 dark
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Kharif crop sowing surpasses average area driven by paddy, pulses and coarse cereals
By Dhirendra Kumar Improved monsoon conditions over the past week have boosted sowing activities, pushing the total kharif crop area
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Punjab draft agri policy wants paddy banned in severely parched areas
By Ruchika Khanna Punjab’s draft Agriculture Policy has recommended a ban on all long-duration paddy varieties and paddy cultivation in
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Firm to compensate farmers for losses due to paddy seed mixing
By Aakanksha N Bhardwaj Farmers from Kapurthala, who had sown the SR 110 variety of paddy, have been suffering losses.
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Telangana: Raw Rice Mills Need to Upgrade Technology: Telangana Civil Supplies Commissioner
Civil supplies commissioner D.S. Chauhan has stated that pending issues flagged by raw rice millers were being looked into. He
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China’s fading hunger for food grain spells trouble for world farmers
By Bloomberg By Hallie Gu, Tarso Veloso and Keira WrightWarehouses across China are bulging with grain as a deepening economic
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MEP abolition to boost basmati rice exports, arrest decline in mandi prices
By Sandip Das The government’s decision to abolish the minimum export price (MEP) of $950/tonne, which was imposed a year
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Centre removes $950/MT MEP on Basmati exports
Under pressure over falling paddy prices, the Centre on Friday acceded to the demand of rice millers and farmers in
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Japan’s August rice price soars 23% on summer heat, quake warning
Rice prices sold at supermarkets in Japan in August jumped 23 percent from a year earlier due to tight supply
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Telangana: Erring rice mills to be blacklisted
District collector Adarsh Surabhi on Thursday directed the Civil Supplies officials to ensure that the millers provide the Food Corporation
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