Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said on Friday that the Centre will promote the expansion of area and production of ten globally popular exotic fruit crops of commercial importance, as well as as many indigenous fruit crops with high nutritional value, in the current fiscal year...
On Friday, the PHDCCI Jammu & Kashmir inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Innoterra, a Swiss-Indian food, and technology platform company, to strengthen market linkages for farmer co-operatives in Jammu & Kashmir state. As per the statement released by Innoterra, the...
Very heavy rainfall was reported at isolated locations across Tamil Nadu and Kerala during 24 hours ending Thursday morning as a well-endowed low-pressure area parked over the South-West Bay of Bengal off the coast of Sri Lanka set about its task of putting both States on notice. More...
Unseasonal rainfall in Uttar Pradesh, combined with a higher diversion to ethanol production, is expected to reduce sugar production this year, as per industry sources. As the average sugar prices in retail market rising in demand, a reduction in surplus sugar could help mills speed up...
CropLife India, an industry body of crop science companies, has urged the government to retain a uniform basic customs duty (BCD) of 10 percent for both technical raw materials and formulations while seeking a reduction in GST on agrochemicals from the current 18 percent to 12 percent, a...
