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In New Delhi, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday expressed satisfaction over the increase in pulse cultivation during the ongoing kharif sowing season 2024-25, with an increase in the area under pulses of more than 50 percent, especially in Tur.Reviewing the progress...

Chandigarh, Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian on Thursday said the Punjab government will provide more than 22,000 crop residue management machines to the farmers of the state for paddy straw management.He asked the concerned officials to ensure that the draw for subsidized CRM...

Ahmedabad, Gujarat has received 223.37 mm rainfall so far this season, with widespread rainfall lashing many areas of the state, which is more than 25 per cent of the average annual rainfall in the state, bringing relief to farmers, the government said. Wednesday.Government spokesperson and...

As of July 6, wholesale prices of urad in Indore and Delhi markets have seen a week-on-week decline of 3.12 per cent and 1.08 per cent respectively. In line with domestic prices, prices of imported urad are also showing a declining trend, the ministry said in a statement.Procurement of summer...

New Delhi: The government on Wednesday said urad prices have started softening in wholesale markets in Delhi and Indore due to its efforts to increase supply and reports of higher sowing in the ongoing Kharif season.The area covered under urad reached 5.37 lakh hectares till July 5 of this...

New Delhi, Agriculture Ministry said on Monday that so far in the current 2024-25 Kharif (summer) season, the area under sowing of paddy has increased by 19.35 percent to 59.99 lakh hectares.In the same period a year ago, the area under paddy was 50.26 lakh hectares.Sowing of the main kharif...

This year, the area under sowing of pulses has increased by 50 percent to 36.81 lakh hectares from last year's 23.78 lakh hectares. This is a good sign because there is a shortage of pulses in the country which has increased food inflation.The area under paddy cultivation has increased from...

The spatial deviation has reduced due to good rainfall over most parts of the country during the last week.North and West India (3 percent), Central India (-6 percent), East and North East India (0 percent), and Southern Peninsula (13 percent) have received normal rainfall so far. MK Global...

New Delhi: The government on Friday said availability of onion in the domestic market is comfortable and retail prices are stabilizing.In a statement, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said onion sowing is estimated to increase by 27 per cent in the kharif (summer...

New Delhi [India], the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has announced that the area under kharif onion sowing is expected to be 27 percent higher than last year.According to a press release from the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, this...

Hamirpur/Una (Himachal Pradesh), Himachal Pradesh Agriculture Department has set a target of producing about 9.70 lakh metric tonnes of Kharif crop this season.The agriculture department has set a target of sowing maize, paddy, ragi, pulses and other food grains on 368 lakh hectares of...

Chandigarh, Punjab Agriculture Minister Gurmeet Singh Khuddian on Wednesday said the state government aims to bring 10 lakh hectare area under the basmati crop during the paddy sowing season.Khudian, who was chairing a review meeting with department officials at his office here, said around...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Tuesday said the state government has developed a fool-proof mechanism to ensure uninterrupted power supply to farmers during the paddy sowing season.He said that the state government is strongly committed to ensure uninterrupted power...

New Delhi: India may allow sugar exports after assessing the final sowing and production of sugarcane in the 2024-25 season, as Brazil, the world's largest producer, is expected to produce 30 million tonnes less sugar next season.For the current 2023-24 season ending in September, sugar...

Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused BJ of sowing the seeds of division between communities in the state.Addressing a rally in support of TMC candidate Sudip Bandyopadhyay in Kolkata North, Banerjee pointed to a recent meeting where the Rajasthan chief...

BENGALURU: Karnataka is expected to receive above normal monsoon rains, with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday directing district administrations to take necessary precautionary measures to deal with the situation arising due to heavy rains, and prepare them for sowing and other...

Amidst its rugged, rugged, and landlocked landscape, residents, the majority of whom are Buddhists, devote themselves to the season's harvest of peas, barley, potatoes, and the cycles of the earth rather than the noises of a distant power. Weave our lives around.Hardworking women farmers in...

New Delhi [India], In a good news for farmers who are soon to or may have already started sowing of Kharif crops, a survey has revealed that the country is still free from locusts, a serious threat. Has emerged as. A few years ago, during regular surveys conducted by the Locust Warning...