New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) India recorded an unprecedented foodgrain output of 357.73 million metric tonnes (MMT) in the agricultural year 2024-25, marking an increase of 25.43 MMT over the preceding year, reflecting sustained gains in productivity, improved input management, and strengthened institutional support to farmers, an official fact-sheet said on Thursday.The increase was primarily driven by higher production of rice, wheat, maize, and coarse cereals (including millets, designated as S…
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New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) The total area covered under summer crops in India has reached 36.22 lakh hectares (as on March 13) this year, with the sowing season in full swing, data released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare showed on Tuesday.The normal summer area, calculated on the basis of average coverage from 2022-23 to 2024-25, is 75.37 lakh hectare. In comparison, the final summer area achieved in 2025 was significantly higher at 83.92 lakh hectare, suggesting that the cur…
Gandhinagar, March 12 (IANS) Gujarat has achieved unprecedented growth in agriculture over the past two decades, with cotton production rising by 696 per cent and groundnut by 575 per cent, Agriculture Minister Jitu Vaghani said in the state Legislative Assembly on Thursday. Describing the state’s agricultural and cooperative model, Vaghani said: “Farmers are not just providers of food, they are the living arteries keeping the economy beating.”Vaghani highlighted Gujarat’s transformati…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) India is steadily moving towards becoming the world’s ‘food basket’ with record agricultural production and supportive government policies, Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Tuesday.Speaking in Lok Sabha, Chouhan said the Centre is making continuous efforts to strengthen the agriculture sector and improve farmers’ incomes.He also alleged that several central schemes are not being properly implemented in West Bengal,…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) In view of the ongoing festive season and ahead of Holi, the Delhi government’s Food Safety Department carried out an enforcement drive, lifting 66 food samples, including that of paneer, khoya and pulses, an official said on Thursday. Delhi Health Minister Pankaj Kumar Singh said that the drive was focused on systematic food sampling and prevention of adulteration.”The health and safety of Delhi’s citizens is the top priority of the Rekha Gupta-led Delhi government. The…
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) The cost of preparing a home-cooked vegetarian and non-vegetarian thali declined in January compared with a year ago, helped by lower prices of key vegetables and pulses, a report said on Tuesday.A report by Crisil Intelligence said the cost of a vegetarian thali fell 1 per cent year-on-year in January, while that of a non-vegetarian thali dropped 7 per cent.The fall in the vegetarian thali cost was mainly driven by a sharp decline in onion, potato and pulses prices.Howe…
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) India’s annual rate of inflation based on the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) was estimated at 1.81 per cent for January this year compared to the same month of the previous year, according to figures released by the Commerce and Industry Ministry on Monday.Positive rate of inflation in January is primarily due to an increase in prices of the manufacture of basic metals, other manufacturing, non-food articles, food articles and textiles, the official statement said.The mon…
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) India’s inflation rate based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI), with the new base year 2024, for the month of January this year is estimated at 2.75 per cent compared to the same month of the previous year, according to official data released by the Ministry of Statistics on Thursday.The food inflation came in at 2.13 per cent during the month. Prices of vegetables such as potatoes, onions and garlic declined during January along with the prices of pulses such as arhar…
Sehore, Feb 7 (IANS) Union Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, on Saturday, expressed his concern over continuous low production of pulses across the country and called for an immediate attention from all the states and concerned authorities, including farmers. Union Minister Chouhan said that continuous low production of pulses by the farmers for the last few years have forced the government to purchase pulses from foreign countries.”If India has to buy pulses from a…
Indore, Feb 6 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav on Friday said the state government is mulling providing incentives on the production of ‘urad’ (black gram) and ‘masoor’ (lentil) pulses to encourage farmers.The Chief Minister made this announcement, addressing a three-day national and international exhibition of state-of-the-art machinery related to pulses, grains, and other food processing industries in Indore on Friday.The Chief Minister said that the government has prepared a d…