PADDY

In the 2024-25 kharif season, paddy increased by 19.35% to 59.99 lakh hectare. Pulses rose to 36.81 lakh hectare, notably arhar. Maize reached 41.09 lakh hectare, oilseeds 80.31 lakh hectare. Sugarcane and cotton increased; jute-mesta decreased. Coa...

The government's robust procurement efforts, exceeding targets in wheat and paddy, have significantly bolstered food security. FCI's strong storage infrastructure ensures the maintenance of adequate food supplies, benefitting millions of farmers acr...

The retail and wholesale inflation in rice has been in double digits since last year. India, the largest exporter of rice, banned export of broken rice in August 2022 to ensure adequate local supplies. This was followed by a ban on export of non-bas...

According to the report, nearly 43 per cent of the surveyed farmers lost at least half of their standing crops. Rice, vegetables, and pulses were particularly affected by uneven rainfall. In the northern states, paddy fields often remain submerged f...

Delayed monsoon raises concerns over kharif crop cultivation, with only 10% of soyabean area sown in Madhya Pradesh. Farmers in West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh await rains for paddy. Pulses traders are worried about tur and urad crops amid intense hea...

The Union cabinet, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, approved significant decisions including a 5-11% increase in Minimum Support Price (MSP) for kharif crops, construction of a ₹76,220-crore port in Vadhavan, Maharashtra, and a revam...

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi for allegedly withholding Rs 7,000 crore of paddy procurement funds to West Bengal and raised concerns about the status of the CBI case against Suvendu Adhikari. Ramesh ac...

House of the Dragon Season 2 will premiere on June 16, 2024. It will continue the story of the civil war between Rhaenyra Targaryen and Alicent Hightower. The cast includes Emma D'Arcy and Olivia Cooke.

Wheat procurement for the 2024-25 Rabi marketing season progresses smoothly, surpassing last year's total with 262.48 lakh tonnes acquired, benefiting 22.31 lakh farmers. Major states contributing include Punjab, Haryana, and Madhya Pradesh. Rice pr...

A concerning trend in India shows over 50 lakh large farmland trees vanished from 2018 to 2022 due to altered cultivation practices, impacting agroforestry systems and promoting paddy rice fields. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, Denma...

GoI directs states to withhold MSP benefits from stubble-burning farmers, following Supreme Court's disincentive recommendation. Strategies like in-situ residue management face challenges due to quick field-clearing through burning, slow implementat...

However, the heatwave has posed challenges for the production of rice-bran oil, with manufacturers facing a shortage of labor. Rice-bran oil is extracted from the hard outer brown layer of rice, known as bran, within 24 hours of paddy harvesting. Th...

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan has given his assent to five Bills passed by the state assembly, which had been pending for a long time. The Bills include amendments related to land assignment, cooperative societies, paddy wetlands, dairy coopera...

The Bhandara-Gondia seat in Vidarbha, India, is now a contest between the BJP and Congress. The seat, which was previously a BJP-NCP contest, has been contested since 1999. Praful Patel, leader of the NCP, represented the constituency as a Congress ...

Economists expect that despite easing inflation, Reserve Bank of India is unlikely to cut rates sooner, as it would wait for monsoon and Fed’s action to take a further call. Economists were earlier expecting a cut as early as June or August.

Rs 13,000 crore will be disbursed to 24 lakh farmers in Chhattisgarh on March 12 for paddy procurement. The paddy was procured at MSP of Rs 2,183 per quintal for common grade paddy and Rs 2203 for Grade A paddy. Union Agriculture Minister Arjun Mund...

In her first address to a joint sitting of the two Houses in the new Parliament building, Murmu said, "My government is laying stress on making farming more profitable. Our aim is to reduce the cost of farming while increasing profits." For the firs...

Punjab is expecting a bumper output of paddy crop this year, despite floods during the kharif season 2023-24. The state, known as the food bowl of the country, is expecting paddy output to cross 205 lakh metric tonnes, with an average yield going up...

The Indian government has begun purchasing paddy from farmers at the minimum support price (MSP), with 12.21 lakh tonne of the grain already bought. The food ministry stated that paddy worth Rs 2,689.77 crore has been procured from 99,675 farmers in...