Onion prices are expected to remain firm until Diwali, according to traders, as the vegetable’s rates in metros such as Delhi and Mumbai hovered around ₹ 60/kg, pushed up by speculation that crop damage caused by untimely rains may affect supplies. Along with onions, the prices of...
Oilmeal exports fell 36% year on year to 1.83 lakh tonne in September due to a domestic scarcity of the oilmeal products, according to industry body the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) on Monday. The government has approved the import of genetically modified (GM) soyameal...
Prices of three key vegetables such as Onion, Tomato and Potato have been shooting up in the festival season and stoill unstopable. But good news is that the Centre on Sunday said that the onion prices have been stabilized with the release of buffer stock, while efforts are being made to...
Thousands of tribal (Adivasis) farmers have taken to the streets, demanding title deeds for forest land cleared for ‘Podu’ cultivation (a form of shifting cultivation). The matter, which has been subject to review for more than 15 years, has resurfaced after the Telangana...
The Bank of Baroda (BoB), the fourth-largest nationalized bank with 132 million customers has announced the establishment of centralized agri-loans processing units across 16 Zonal Offices on Saturday. The Centre for Agriculture Marketing and Processing (CAMP) is a dedicated credit...
