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Prayragraj: A vendor sorts potatoes, at wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Prayagraj, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. (PTI Photo)
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Potato price set to ease below ₹40 in a few days

2 min read . Updated: 02 Dec 2020

Farmers protest against the new farm laws, at the Singhu Border in New Delhi. (ANI)

Middleman matters: Behind Indian protests against farm reforms

4 min read . Updated: 02 Dec 2020

Iffco will keep on reducing prices wherever possible for farmers, it added.

Iffco reduces NP fertiliser price by ₹50 to ₹925/bag

1 min read . Updated: 11 Nov 2020

Startups like Stellapps, Country Delight and Milkbasket have entered the dairy tech space offering to bridge the gap between small dairy farmers and consumers.

Indian startups are out to digitize dairy farming

4 min read . Updated: 05 Nov 2020

Panel open to 1% agriculture cess on luxury products, in favour of cutting GST rate on ethanol from 18% to 12%.

Hike in ethanol prices will be positive for sugar industry: Icra

2 min read . Updated: 30 Oct 2020

The government through Food Corporation of India (FCI) and state agencies undertakes procurement of paddy at MSP.

Govt's paddy buying at MSP rises 28.5% in less than a month; highest from Punjab

2 min read . Updated: 22 Oct 2020

Farmers harvest paddy using a combined paddy harvester, on the outskirts of Amritsar. (PTI)

MSP procurement of kharif paddy begins immediately in Punjab and Haryana: Centre

1 min read . Updated: 26 Sep 2020

Customers enquire the price of onions at a wholesale vegetable market. (AFP)

Onion farmers see red as government bans exports

2 min read . Updated: 15 Sep 2020

The government had in March lifted nearly six-month-old ban on export of onions to help boost the income of farmers (Photo: AP )

Government bans export of all varieties of onion

1 min read . Updated: 14 Sep 2020

Wheat and rice production (Mint)

Agri exports fell by 1.8% in Jun qtr

1 min read . Updated: 10 Sep 2020

PM Modi launches Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana. (ANI)

PM Modi launches Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana, e-Gopala mobile app

1 min read . Updated: 10 Sep 2020

India, which is expected to start the new marketing year with carry forward stocks of 11.5 million tonnes, could produce 31 million tonnes of sugar next season (Photo: Mint)

India to maintain sugar export subsidies for third year in a row: Report

1 min read . Updated: 07 Sep 2020

Farmers plant saplings in a rice field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. (REUTERS)

India hopes farming can boost its economy. It may not be enough

3 min read . Updated: 04 Sep 2020

A farmer walks round his farm (Bloomberg)

RBI flags concerns over climate change impact on India's farm outlook

2 min read . Updated: 25 Aug 2020

Soybean yields are expected to jump by 22% to 1,052 kilograms per hectare from a year ago

India's 2020 soybean output could jump 32% on higher acreage

1 min read . Updated: 21 Aug 2020

The government estimates the country's total sugar production to be 28-29 million tonne in the current year ending next month

CCEA approves increase in sugarcane FRP by ₹10 to ₹285/qtil for 2020-21: Report

1 min read . Updated: 19 Aug 2020

India's agri exports up 23.24% to over ₹25,500 cr in Mar-Jun: Govt (PTI)

India's agri exports up 23.24% to over ₹25,500 cr in Mar-Jun: Govt

3 min read . Updated: 18 Aug 2020

India is likely to have a record closing stockpile of 10.25 million bales by Sept. 30, sais Cotton Association of India (Photo: Bloomberg)

India plans to sell cotton to Bangladesh to trim record reserves

2 min read . Updated: 18 Aug 2020

Nirmala Sitharaman (PTI)

FM Nirmala Sitharaman signals further support to farm sector

2 min read . Updated: 12 Aug 2020

Goa CM Pramod Sawant (Photo: ANI)

Goa taking steps to make agri sector self-reliant: CM Pramod Sawant

1 min read . Updated: 09 Aug 2020

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