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India's summer crop planting down nearly 7% - Government data

Indian farmers planted an array of summer-sown crops on 56.7 million hectares, down 6.9% year on year, agriculture ministry data showed on Friday, narrowing the sowing gap estimate from the previous week. Farmers start planting rice, corn,…

India-Argentina strengthen bilateral agricultural cooperation

Shri Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare met Dr Luis Miguel Etchevehere, State Secretary of Agro-industry of the Argentine Republic in New Delhi. During the meeting, the two leaders discussed that the…

India government has approved higher support prices for kharif crops

India government has approved higher support prices for kharif crops or summer crops, a new labour code, which will allow minimum wages to be paid by cheque / bank transfers to workers of organised as well as unorganised sectors & leasing…

India could achieve 291 MT food grain by FY’19-20

Despite challenges of climate change and adversarial environmental conditions, India will be able to achieve 291 million tonne of food grain target for 2019-20. This was predicted by Dr S K Malhotra, agriculture commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture…

Trump removes India from special trade status,pesticides affected

The Trump administration announced Friday that it's ending special trade treatment for India, removing a status that exempts billions of dollars of the country's products from US tariffs. "I have determined that India has not assured the…

Indian state turns to drones to modernise agriculture

In order to increase agricultural production with the help of precision farming technologies, the Indian state of Maharashtra turns to drones. The Maharashtra state government has been looking to work together with drone companies. A workshop…

India Foodgrain Production to 281 million Tonnes in 2018-19

The government on Thursday declared that total food grain production in India is estimated at 281.37 million tonnes during 2018-19 as compared to 277.49 million tonnes in the previous fiscal. According to second advance estimates released…

Glyphosate banned in Kerala, India

The sale, distribution, and use of glyphosate products has been banned in the state of Kerala, India, according to an article for the news outlet manorama.com. "This is part of the state's efforts to gradually phase out pesticide use in the…

Significance of India in Global Supply Chain of Crop Protection Chemicals

Since many years, India is supplying very good quality formulations of generic pesticides to different markets, but now time has come to become strong in backward integration to participate more significantly in global market. As such Indian…