India allowed refined palm oil imports till December 2022, according to a government order, as the world’s largest vegetable oil buyer seeks to lower edible oil prices. The move may reduce India’s imports of crude palm oil (CPO), with buyers moving to refined palm oil as...
Refer Biodiversity Bill to Environment, Forests, S&T Committee-Jairam Ramesh The Congress Chief Smt. Sonia Gandhi Whip in Rajya Sabha and the former Environment Minister, Mr. Jairam Ramesh, penned a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla opposing the proposal to refer the Bill to a...
Amit Shah, Union Home, and Cooperation Minister stated on Sunday that the government intends to issue globally valid certification to organic farmers so that they can take their produce to the international market. He also stated that the government plans to establish a national...
The Centre rejected the sugar industry’s demand for an increase in the commodity’s current statutory minimum selling price of ₹31/kg on Friday, citing higher domestic (ex-mill) prices. It also advised the industry to depart from a controlled system. In response to the...
The Tamil Nadu government will provide sugarcane farmers with a special incentive of ₹150 per tonne for the 2020-21 crushing season. This is in addition to the Centre’s announced fair and remunerative price of ₹2,707.5 per tonne linked to 9.5% sugar recovered and the Transitional...
