Farmers should start their own firms to market & export their produce. Nitin Gadkari, a minister in the Union government, told farmers on Saturday that they should start their own companies to sell and export their crops instead of relying on the government. The Union minister said...
Need to bring standard system one-country-one-seed licence policy: Seed Firms. Members of the National Seed Association of India (NSAI) have stated that there is a need to bring about a standard system of seed licensure in the country by adopting a one-country-one-seed licence policy...
Raliya’s ‘Nano Urea’ invention could save India $40 billion in fertilizer subsidies and imports. Ramesh Raliya, now 34, grew up in the dry village of Kharia Khangar, 90 km from Jodhpur. Only four months of the year were good for farming there. The rain-fed kharif crops...
India bans the export of broken rice citing concerns about domestic availability. On Thursday, India issued a notification forbidding the export of broken rice (HS code 1006 40 00), citing concerns about lesser paddy crop output due to delayed monsoons and insufficient rainfall in some...
Less paddy planting this Kharif leads to a 20% export duty on non-Basmati rice. The Centre put a 20% export tax on rice, brown rice, semi-milled rice, and fully milled rice, but not on parboiled rice, on Thursday. This will go into effect on September 9. A notice from the Revenue...
