'I came to know that there was a big racket going on in the selling of onions. Private players were hoarding onions and these things cannot happen unless they have political patronage.' IMAGE: An......
The reforms will help FPOs procure directly from farmers, something that they have been pressing for long. Shubendhu Dash, a project director working with a couple of farmer-producer organisations......
Traders say prices will remain elevated due to increased demand, lower availability Onion prices saw a remarkable jump, hitting an eight-month high on account of a sharp increase in demand by......
The fund allocated for pulses buffer is more than 40% of entire farm ministry's 2016-17 budget. The Centre is all set to create a huge buffer stock of pulses of around 2 million tonnes, half of......
Continuing the past trend of significant increases in the minimum support price of pulses, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs raised on Thursday those of masoor (red gram) and gram (Bengal......
Retail onion prices had jumped to almost Rs 70 per kg in many cities in August and September An analysis by the NITI Aayog on this year’s onion crisis shows traders could have milked Rs 8,000......