Out of the total, 72.90 lakh metric tonnes have been purchased for the centre and 2.05 lakh metric tonnes for the public ...

In the ongoing rabi marketing season, wheat procurement has already surpassed 29 million tonnes—the highest level in four years—driven by bumper harvests. The government remains confident of reaching ...

Western disturbances are crucial for winter precipitation in northern India, but their changing patterns could lead to ...

India aims to reduce rice acreage by 5 million hectares and increase oilseed and pulses production by 10 million tonnes.

3. The FRP for sugarcane is decided using the same mechanism as the one that is used to calculate the Minimum Support Price (MSP) of 23 other crops. 5. The FRP is based on the recovery of sugar from ...

Given the scarcity of rainfall and water supply during the Rabi season, every grain of paddy is invaluable to them. Suryapet farmers share similar concerns. As one of the state’s major paddy-producing ...

Under the central scheme, farmers are charged 1.5% of the sum insured for kharif crops, 2% for rabi crops, and 5% for horticulture crops. The cabinet has approved a revamped scheme for Kharif 2025.

It will now be replaced by the old scheme: PM Crop Insurance Scheme. As per the new decision, farmers will now pay premiums worth 2 per cent for Kharif, 1.5 per cent for Rabi and 5 per cent for cash ...

But for Katie Gold and Yu Jiang of Cornell University, a smart robot that can monitor crop health better and more safely than any human is only a stepping stone to something cosmically larger.

SASKATOON — Strong nitrogen fertilizer demand is butting up against tight supplies in some regions of the world, says an analyst. India is the world’s top importer of the product. Indian urea ...

There are expectations that food inflation will ease out in the near future as uncertainties around the rabi crop have largely resolved, and the second advance estimates point to record wheat output ...

The region’s fertile soil and favorable climate conditions are key to the wheat’s exceptional quality. Crop Cycle: As a Rabi crop, Sharbati wheat is sown between October and December and harvested ...