AMIT AGNIHOTRI
The Indo-US cooperation in the agriculture sector is all set for a big push with the US likely to unveil a huge financial package to help India fight hunger and achieve its food security target.

"We will be announcing five pillars of our cooperation with India on Monday.

Indian farmers will soon be provided with soil health card, to guide them for a balanced and judicious use of chemical fertilisers in an effort to maintain the soil health.

New Delhi: With foodgrain stocks at a record 329 lakh tonnes, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

New Delhi: In a decision that

AMIT AGNIHOTRI
The Prime Minister has asked Union Cabinet secretary K.M. Chandrashekhar to monitor the situation on a daily basis
Concerned over continuing rain distress in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, heartland of the green revolution, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took stock of the situation in a meeting with agriculture minister Sharad Pawar

New Delhi: With an urgent review of the monsoon and crop situation taken by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh revealing that its comfort zone is shrinking because of the adequate rains in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, government on Monday took precaution of cancelling export of 6 lakh tonnes of wheat and wheat products.

NEW DELHI: With the overall rainfall continuing to be below normal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday reviewed the crop situation and directed officials to be ready for any contingency.

Dr. Singh met with senior officials of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Agriculture Ministry, just before leaving for a five-day visit to France and Egypt.

Farm ministry irked at IMD (which is under earth sciences ministry) making rain data public, as it has to do ground work to minimise the adverse impact of poor monsoon
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NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Palam Dharam Deo Solanki has in a letter to Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar demanded that the rural areas of Delhi be declared

AMIT AGNIHOTRI and PRASHANT PANDEY
July 9: Concerned over a weak monsoon system, which has eluded north-west India affecting sowing of kharif crops, the agriculture ministry is still not terming it as a drought-like situation.