agriculture sector

Union Home Minister Amit Shah. File | Photo Credit: PTI i Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Saturday urged Agricultural and Rural Development Banks (ARDBs) to extend more long-terms loans to the agriculture sector, including for irrigation…

Image used for representational purpose only. | Photo Credit: Manjunath H.S. The ‘Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics,’ prepared by the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying after an integrated sample survey, showed an…

Farmers ride on a cart loaded with grass in a village on the outskirts of Jalandhar, Punjab on January 31, 2023. According the Economic Survey, the performance of the agriculture and allied sector had been buoyant over the past several…

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The shortfall in the area under paddy cultivation for the week ended August 26 over the…

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After banning wheat exports, the Centre has now curbed exports of…

The government may announce higher-than-usual increases in minimum support prices (MSP) for the summer-sown crops in 2022-23 year soon, taking into consideration a sharp rise in costs of farming inputs. The MSP increases this year could…

The price of everything that goes into producing crops is surging, threatening to further fan global food inflation. Food production costs were already high. The pandemic snarled supply chains, making it more difficult — and expensive — to…