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India provides an additional $8.71 billion in fertilizer subsidies

India has earmarked an additional 650 billion rupees ($8.71 billion) in fertilizer aid for the current fiscal year, which began in April, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said Thursday. The government has decided to allocate the additional…

Exports in India fall by 5.4% in the month of October, the trade deficit is reduced to USD 8.78 billion.

Let us remember that in September, after registering positive growth, exports in India fell by 5.4% to USD 28.82 billion in October. This has been due to the fall in shipments of products derived from gems and jewelry, oil, leather and engineering…

Rains damage standing crops in India

In India, crops of more than 4.5 billion hectares are affected by extremely heavy rains. In addition, it is estimated that the damaged area will increase in the coming days. In Maharashtra, heavy rains have been received in recent days as…

‘Foreign pest’ threat to tapioca crops in south India

Even as the Covid19 pandemic has battered the health and economy of the country, entomologists are alarmed at the “unauthorised introduction” of foreign invasive pests, which are destroying Indian crops and causing untold misery to our hapless…

Crop planting rises 5.7% to a new record of 110.45 million hectares in India, bumper harvest likely

Crop planting has expanded to a new record of 110.45 million hectares, rising 5.7% over last year and setting the stage for another bumper harvest. Crop area is likely to increase further as rice planting is still continuing, although at…

Major threat of locust attack nearly subsided this season in India: FAO

India has almost overcome any more major threat of locust attack this season. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in its latest update this week noted that “the risk of swarm migration to the India-Pakistan summer breeding area…

India’s kharif rice sowing up 19% so far, thanks to good rains

Among cash crops, cotton planting has risen by 11.29 per cent to 121.25 lakh hectares so far in the current kharif season of the 2020-21 crop year (July-June) from 108.95 lakh hectares in the year-ago period. Area sown to rice, the main kharif…

Data: An average 500 LMT of Fertilizer per year was used in India in the last 10 years

Land is a limited resource. To ensure food security for a growing population and to meet increasing demand, it is imperative that there is adequate food production in the country. Chemical substances such as fertilizers and pesticides are used…

Is India headed towards a locust plague

The global upsurge of locusts is on the brink of becoming a plague, aided by unusually favourable weather for three years and the international community’s failure to curb their growth. Swarms of locusts took Delhi and the National Capital…