Best is yet to come in agri sector: PM

Last Updated: Saturday, July 27, 2013, 18:39

Amid concerns over inflation in agricultural items, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday sought suggestions from economic experts for a solution as he asserted that the "best is yet to come" in the sector.

India produces record pulses in 2012-13; foodgrains output down

Last Updated: Monday, July 22, 2013, 15:46

The Agriculture Ministry on Monday released the fourth advance estimates of foodgrain production for 2012-13.

No change in gas supply preference, urea remains top priority

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 18:50

Fearing backlash from farmers, a high-powered ministerial panel on Wednesday rejected a proposal to cut natural gas supplies to urea plants and divert that fuel to power companies.

Rural India goes high on labour flow

Last Updated: Friday, June 21, 2013, 12:38

Despite registering a decline of 3.6% in India’s agricultural labour force, rural India has registered a 12% increase.

Low storage space for India’s growing harvest!

Last Updated: Thursday, June 6, 2013, 16:36

The deficit in storage has grave implications on the administration of the Food Security Act.

India losing sheen as agricultural nation: Modi

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013, 17:29

India would not have lost its sheen as a country of farmers if Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had been the first Prime Minister, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday, ruing the "poor" national agricultural growth.

Farm sector may grow by 3.4% this fiscal on normal monsoon

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 14:48

Agriculture and allied sectors could achieve a higher growth rate of 3.4 percent this fiscal if the country receives normal monsoon, PM's economic advisory panel chairman C Rangarajan said on Wednesday.

India seeks cut in trade distorting agri subsidies by US, EU

Last Updated: Monday, May 6, 2013, 16:28

Seeking to promote export of farm produce, developing nations including India are pressing for reduction of trade distorting agriculture subsidies by the US and the EU, Parliament was informed Monday.

Foodgrain output revised upward by 2% to 255.36 million tonnes

Last Updated: Friday, May 3, 2013, 17:58

The foodgrain output for 2012-13 crop year (July-June) was projected at 250.14 million tonne in the second advance estimates released in February.

Monsoon likely to be normal this year: Govt

Last Updated: Friday, April 26, 2013, 19:41

The country is expected to have normal monsoon this year with overall rainfall of 98 percent, news that will bring smiles to millions of faces of farmers who depend on good rains for a bumper harvest.

Slowdown bottoming out, FY14 growth likely at 6.4%: PMEAC

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 11:38

Improvement in performance of agriculture and manufacturing sectors is expected to push the economic growth rate to 6.4 per cent in 2013-14 from 5 per cent in the previous fiscal, PM's economic advisory panel said on Tuesday.

India's paddy, wheat productivity lower than China

Last Updated: Friday, March 22, 2013, 16:50

India produced 3,590 kg paddy in a hectare against 6,686 kg by China in 2011, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Tariq Anwar said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.