Heavy rains and hailstorms have struck standing rabi crops, including wheat and jowar, in parts of Maharashtra state. Onion cultivation and onion seed plots have been also damaged, while grapes gardens in the Sangli and Nashik regions have suffered severe damage. The state has received...
Grape exporters from Maharashtra States asked the government to provide more transparency on the Remission of Duties or Taxes on the Export Product (RoDTEP) which replaced the Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS). They say that exports will be significantly impacted as there is...
In the recent Union budget, the target for agricultural credit was increased to ₹16.5 lakh crore from the previous target of ₹15 lakh crore. This is important in view of the fact that credit plays a catalytic role in agricultural development. With the agricultural sector expected to be a...
India is likely to achieve an all-time high production of more than 297 million tons of food grain in 2020-21, the fifth consecutive year of record production, according to the government’s second estimate, which is due to be released soon. This will be a little more than the fourth...
Twenty projects benefiting from an investment of ₹ 363.40 crore supported by a grant of ₹ 102.81 crore under the Infrastructure Creation Scheme for the Agro processing Cluster (APC) and the Plan for the Creation and Expansion of Food Processing and Preservation Capacity (CEFPPC) under...
