With over 30 per cent rainfall deficit across the country a month after the monsoon, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Tuesday admitted the position was not “fully satisfactory”, but allayed fea
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Tuesday approved a Food Ministry proposal to export two million tonnes of wheat from its buffer stock in an attempt to ease the storage crisis.
Fazilka: Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal chose to launch the “Green Punjab Mission” from Fazilka today as the district has a mere 1 per cent forest area against the recommended 33 per cent.
The recurrent global food price spikes in 2008 and 2010 rekindled interest in the use of national foodgrain stockpiles (“stocks”) to enhance food security. They were a commonly used instrument in government responses to these food prices spikes.
The North Eastern states will get Rs 100 crore this year from the Agriculture Ministry to promote cultivation of rice under the National Food Security Mission (NFSM).
Fatehabad: Standing crops on hundreds of acres of agriculture land were submerged under water due to a breach - third in the past one month - in the Munshiwala Minor near Shehnal and Hamzapur villa
Moga: Paddy worth crores of rupees stored by state procurement agencies is reportedly missing from Punjab’s rice mills, thanks to lack of an effective policy, lacklustre attitude of officials and p
New Delhi:Residents in many colonies may be struggling for their daily share of water, but so severe is the crisis in the agricultural belt of the capital — Najafgarh — that farmers have been force
