The Kerala High Court has stayed the Director-General of Foreign Trade‘s (DGFT) order setting the minimum import price (MIP) of pepper at ₹500 per kg CIF (cost, insurance, freight). The order was issued in response to a writ petition filed by Travancore Solvents and Oils, Aluva, a...
In response to center’s reluctunt to buy rice from Telangana state, the KCR government asked its farmers to abandon paddy growing. It is now the turn of Andhra Pradesh to ask its farmers to stop cultivating paddy during the rabi season and go for the millets as an alternative crops...
The Centre is in the process of finalising guidelines for the use of drones to apply fertiliser to crops. India expects to follow in the footsteps of Israel and Europe in adopting this new method, which has the potential to reduce consumption, save money on subsidies, and improve soil...
During the first two months of the Kharif harvesting season, average mandi prices in leading producing States were 2 to 34% lower than their respective minimum support prices (MSPs) in at least ten crops. According to data from the Agmarknet portal, only cotton and soyabean prices...
According to statistical data presented to Parliament by the agriculture ministry, almost ₹374.78 crore is due for reprocessing after failed transactions happened under the central initiative PM-KISAN since its introduction in 2019. When the Pradhan Mantri Samman Nidhi Yojana (PM-KISAN)...
