New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): Farmers in India have sown less paddy this Kharif season. Going by the latest acreage data, the area under paddy cultivation is over 13 per cent lower than the previous Kharif season.
Sri Satya Sai District (Andhra Pradesh) [India], June 14 (ANI): For the third year in a row, as part of the YSR free crop insurance scheme, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy disbursed Rs 2,977.80 crore for over 15 lakh farmers across the state who suffered crop loss during t
New Delhi [India], June 8 (ANI): The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), approved the increase in the Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for all mandated Kharif crops for marketing season 2022-23, informed the officials on Wednesday.
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], April 17 (ANI): In a bid to effectively check the fast depleting water table, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday exhorted the farmers to go for Direct Seeding of Rice (DSR) technology in a big way during the current Kharif Season.
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 31 (ANI): The water crisis has worsened in Pakistan and the country may face up to 27 per cent water shortage during the early Kharif season (starting April 1st).
New Delhi [India], February 21 (ANI): The Central government on Monday announced that paddy procurement at Minimum Support Price (MSP) worth Rs 1.36 lakh crore has been done so far from 94.15 lakh farmers in the ongoing Kharif Marketing Season (KMS).
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], December 28 (ANI): After a marathon discussion with Kisan Majdoor Sangharsh Committee, Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday announced a relief of Rs. 17000 per acre to the Basmati growers, whose crops have been substantially damaged due to hail
New Delhi [India], December 2 (ANI): As the paddy procurement is progressing smoothly in Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2021-22 at minimum support price (MSP) from farmers, as was done in previous years, about 18.17 lakh farmers have been benefitted with MSP value of Rs. 57,032.03 crore, i
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], September 24 (ANI): Punjab Chief Minister S Charanjit Singh Channi on Friday requested the Centre to help the state in getting the authorization of Cash Credit Limit (CCL) for the Kharif Marketing Season (KMS), 2021-22 from Reserve Bank of India (RBI) expeditious
Mumbai (Maharashtra) September 1 (ANI/Hunk Golden and Media): India Pulses and Grains Association (IPGA), the nodal body for India's pulses trade and industry, recently hosted a webinar on Kharif Sowing Overview under the aegis of the 'IPGA Knowledge Series' with the aim of getting an in-dep
New Delhi [India], Aug 21 (ANI): Primary fertiliser sales volume during first four months of FY22 registered 11 per cent decline compared to 4M FY21, mainly due to the base effect as during H1 FY21 fertiliser sales witnessed an upsurge owing to panic buying by farmers following Covid-19 pand
New Delhi [India], August 4 (ANI/NewsVoir): Best Agrolife Limited announced that it has received a patent valid for 20 years for the first-of-its-kind of three-way insecticidal combination in India that will effectively control the entire sucking pest complex, including whitefly, jassids, ap