The 36 percent rainfall deficit last month has cast a shadow on crop output. Poor vegetative growth and pest infestation are already affecting crops. With rainfed agriculture accounting for 51 percent of India’s sown area and 40 percent of food production, a steep monsoon rain......
Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in its first advance estimate for the kharif crop has projected a dip of about 9 million metric tonnes (mmt) of foodgrains on year Agricultural support to total GDP remained subdued in Q2 on account of erratic monsoon thereby......
An immediate solution could come in the form of assured MSPs for basmati or organic varieties of rice such as PR126, Pusa Basmati-1509, Pusa Basmati-1692, instead of the current widely used PUSA-44 variety, farm expert Indra Shekhar Singh says. While farmers may be open to......