Rice exports from Uttar Pradesh have collapsed amid the West Asia conflict, causing a 30% price drop and halted payments—particularly from Iran....
Despite Punjab government's push for kharif maize as a water-saving alternative to paddy, farmers remain unconvinced. Only 320 hectares were sown with...
With grain-based ethanol output reaching 650 crore litres—surpassing sugar-based ethanol’s 250 crore litres in 2024–25—the sugar industry is urging the government to...
The Food Corporation of India (FCI) is incurring an added logistics cost of ₹100 per quintal for wheat stored in steel silos...
A sharp drop in toori (chopped wheat straw) prices has hit Punjab’s wheat farmers hard, with rates falling from ₹500 to ₹130–₹180...
Sharad Pawar emphasized that artificial intelligence can revolutionize sugarcane cultivation by improving yield and boosting farmers' income. Speaking at a Pune event,...
The Maharashtra government is cracking down on 31 sugar cooperatives that defaulted on ₹4,355 crore in margin money loans, disbursed before the...
The Punjab government has launched a pilot project to shift 12,000 hectares from paddy to kharif maize cultivation in six districts—Bathinda, Sangrur,...
Over 3.36 lakh beneficiaries in Ludhiana district—about 19% of the total—risk losing subsidised wheat under the National Food Security Act starting July...