To the relief of Telangana farmers, the Centre has agreed to purchase six lakh tonnes of rice (about nine lakh tonnes of paddy) from the Kharif season, bringing the State’s total rice procurement to 46 lakh tonnes. The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has set a target of 60 lakh...
This year, India produced a record amount of foodgrains, but the repeal of three agri-reform laws and a steep rise in cooking oil prices cast a shadow over the country’s dependable agriculture sector, which is on track for better crop production in 2022 amidst pandemic tunes. While...
Social activists working among the farming community, led by Kavitha Kuruganti, have condemned the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) draft regulations on genetically modified (GM) food as ‘unacceptable.’ According to the Coalition for GM-Free India...
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) has called for agricultural land ceiling laws to be repealed in order to allow farmers to grow economically. According to Assocham’s pre-Budget memorandum 2022-23, land ceiling laws may have allowed for land redistribution...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture has dismissed the pesticides company’s demand on three key issues: price control, criminalization, and data protection, and has asked the government to provide a system of checks and balances to prevent pesticide inspectors from...
