To keep it simple, I discuss only one issue here: Which varieties of wheat and rice should India focus on in the future? In the early years after Independence, India did not produce enough ...

Claiming that India appears to be providing "significant" market price support (MPS) for rice and wheat, both in terms of absolute value and as a percentage of the value of production, the five ...

He said the government wants to use the agricultural sector for national economic revival through increased production of some staple food crops such as wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, soybean ...

Hot nights, brought about by climate change, are degrading the quality of rice crops in China and Japan 1. Researchers know that rice yields are declining because of global warming. Now ...

Five WTO members - Argentina, Australia, Canada, Ukraine and the US - have alleged that India provides excessive market support to wheat and rice which distorts global trade. In a communication of the ...

Zimbabwe has, since the beginning of November, harvested a record 518 502t of wheat from 106 230ha. A total of 119 594ha were planted to wheat this year compared with 91 000ha in the previous season, ...

Bhubaneswar: Ration card holders in Odisha will start receiving wheat along with rice under food security schemes from the first week of January 2025, said Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister ...

The Advisors Council Committee on Government Purchase (ACCGB) today (6 November) approved a number of proposals to procure rice, wheat, sugar, LNG, fertiliser to meet local demands and award contracts ...

In an effort to curb rising prices, the Union government has launched the second phase of retail sales for Bharat Atta and Bharat Rice. Flagging off mobile vans for the National Agricultural ... While ...