Himachal Pradesh: State exceeds paddy procurement target
By Subhash Rajta For the first time, paddy procurement has exceeded the targeted procurement in the state. Against the target
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51.5% agri exports from just 5 products makes sector vulnerable: GTRI
By PTI India’s agri export basket is dependent on just five commodities including rice and sugar and this makes the
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Government sells 3.46 lakh tonnes wheat, 13,164 tonnes rice in open market to check prices
By PTI The government has sold 3.46 lakh tonnes of wheat and 13,164 tonnes of rice through e-auctions to bulk
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Paddy, chilli crops in TN’s Ramanathapuram damaged heavily in recent rainfall: Enumeration report
By MS Thanaraj According to the primary enumeration report, the rampant downpour in the district has resulted in the inundation of
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Paddy purchases by Govt drops 13%, as farmers hold on to stocks
By Sandip Das Paddy procurement under the minimum support price (MSP) scheme declined 13% on year to 36.54 million tonne
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West Bengal government seeks FCI help over poor paddy collection
Mamata Banerjee’s government has written to the Union government’s Food Corporation of India (FCI), requesting to supply over 1.9 lakh
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Cyclone damages 78,032 hectares of paddy crop in Andhra’s Krishna district
Paddy farmers in the Krishna district are confronting unprecedented challenges this year as the Kharif cultivation season, intended to usher
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Despite floods, Punjab’s paddy basket weighs 210 lmt, biggest in five years
By Ruchika M Khanna Notwithstanding the two floods that played havoc in Punjab when the paddy had been transplanted in
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Rice millers not cooperating with farmers: Paddy moist in rains (Andhra Pradesh)
While the state government has given clear instructions to officials to shift paddy from the fields to the rice mills
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Standing crop in half a million hectares of Andhra’s rice bowl may have been affected by Michaung: Expert
By M. Raghuram Standing paddy crops in at least a million acres or 404,685 hectares across eight districts of Andhra Pradesh — its
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