Defaulter sugar mills in Maharashtra will not be allowed to crush sugarcane in this season Shekhar Gaikwad, the Sugar Commissioner of Maharashtra, clarified that sugar mills that have not paid FRP to farmers will not be allowed to begin the sugarcane crushing season. The decision could...
The Tea Board’s average price set for payment to tea small growers has been drastically reduced. The Board has set a price of ₹13.67 per kg as the average price that leaf factories must pay to small growers when purchasing green leaves this month. According to Tea Board Executive...
The current problem of paddy procurement in Telangana state has taken a political turn, with the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) deciding to hold dharnas across the state on Friday, while the BJP called for protests at all district headquarters on Thursday, demanding that the State...
Here’s an opportunity for coffee farmers to earn extra money from their plants all year. The CFTRI (Central Food Technological Research Institute), based in Mysuru, has developed a technology for producing a value-added product from coffee leaves that also has medicinal health...
The humble chickpea or chana, one of the first few crops introduced into agriculture around 10,000 years ago, has recently gained a genomic advantage. A global research team traced its origins to the Fertile Crescent region (the Middle East) and sequenced 29,870 genes from 3,366 chickpea...
