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Representational photo | Photo Credit: REUTERS Sugar production in the current season (October 2022 to September 2023) till November 15 stands at 19.9 lakh tonnes, according to the Indian Sugar Mills’ Association (ISMA). This is slightly lower than the 20.8 lakh tonnes produced last year as several mills in the western States are said to…
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Image for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: K.K. Mustafah Considering the huge increase in the prices of fertilizers in global market, the Centre has ‘doubled’ the fertilizer subsidy for this rabi season. A meeting of the Union Cabinet here on Wednesday approved a subsidy of ₹51,875 crore to Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), Potash (K)…
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Farmers load harvested sugarcane crop on a tractor, to be transported to a sugar mill, at a village in Karad. | Photo Credit: PTI India, the world’s biggest sugar producer, has extended restrictions for sugar export by one year through October 2023, the government said in a notification late on Friday. In May, India restricted…
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A trader checking the quality of wheat at the wholesale grain mandi at Najafgarh, in New Delhi. File photo. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Wheat has been sown in 54,000 hectare so far in the ongoing rabi (winter) season of the 2022-23 crop year, 59 per cent higher than 34,000 hectare in the year-ago period, according to the…
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The Union government expects a record production of 342.33 million tonnes of fruits and vegetables in 2021-22. It is an increase of about 7.73 million tonnes (2.3%) over the production in 2020-21. The area of cultivation could increase to 28.08 million hectares from 27.48 million hectares in 2020-21, according to the third advance estimates of…
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Bose Mandanna was devastated when torrential rains in September thrashed the coffee plants in his plantation and left tender berries and leaves strewn everywhere. The plants stood partially submerged in water for weeks at Subramanya Estate in Suntikoppa in Kodagu district of south Karnataka. Soon, the plants began to rot. Mandanna was among the hundreds…
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File photo: A worker carries boiled rice in a wheelbarrow to spread it for drying at a rice mill on the outskirts of Kolkata | Photo Credit: REUTERS Almost 1,000 tonnes of parboiled rice – which is used to make idlis – are reportedly held up at the ports in Tamil Nadu since last month…
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann speaks during the ongoing session of Punjab Legislative Assembly, in Chandigarh on October 3, 2022. | Photo Credit: PTI Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday announced increasing the price of sugarcane to ₹380 per quintal from the existing ₹360 per quintal. He announced a hike in SAP (State agreed…
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Probing through the thick, green leaves of a 15-foot-tall tree, 63-year-old Safiya Sulaiman plucked a reddish orb with a prickly rind. As she cut around its equator, what popped out was a snow-white segment that is highly coveted for its sweetness. “This fruit is making quite a splash,” she said, savouring the succulence that has…
The decrease in cultivation of kharif crops is in about nine lakh hectares so far. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA India’s rice production during the kharif season is likely to fall short of the target of 112 million tonnes (MT) and will reach only 104.99 MT, said the first advance estimate for 2022-23 released by…
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