Month: October 2018

Prices of maize in Davangere, a key market for the coarse grain in Karnataka, remained steady mid low availability of good-quality crop and subdued demand. Spot price of the coarse grain were largely unchanged at 1,100-1,450 […]

Prices of tur rose in Akola, the benchmark market, due to strong demand from stockists and dal millers ahead of the festival season. In Akola, tur was sold at 4,150 rupees per 100 kg, up 50 […]

Futures contracts of chana on the NCDEX were up over 1% due to firm demand from domestic stockists and dal millers ahead of Diwali. The most-active November contract of the pulse was at 4,001 rupees per […]

The Goa’s government plans to bring around 30 per cent of the fallow lands, out of the existing 13,193 hectares across the state, under cultivation by next year. The quantum of fallow land from the current […]

The animal husbandry department of the Maharashtra government has invited farmers to grow fodder from November onwards for cattle heads in the state, where 180 talukas are facing a drought-like situation, an official said Tuesday.

Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, and South Interior Karnataka are expected to receive heavy rain from Wednesday at isolated places for three days, ahead of the arrival of the North-East monsoon. The India Met Department (IMD) has […]

Food Corp of India has offered to sell 11,201.32 tn tur through NCDEX e-Markets. The pulse is stocked at various central and state godowns in Telangana, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh.

After severe drought hit districts of Maharashtra, 100 talukas of 24 districts of Karnataka have also been declared drought affected. A study conducted by the Karnataka state government revealed that a loss of Rs 16,500 Crore […]

The forecast for rice output in 2018-19 has been reduced slightly to 490.4 mln tn from 490.8 mln tn earlier. Consumption is now seen at 492.3 mln tn, against an earlier estimate of 492.1 mln tn. […]

For maize, the grains body cut the global output projection in 2018-19 to 1.0737 bln tn from 1.0743 bln tn seen earlier. However, the projection is still higher than 1.0476 bln tn maize produced in the […]

International Grains Council has hiked its estimate for global wheat production for 2018-19 to 728.8 mln tn from 716.7 mln tn seen earlier. A record 767.1 mln tn wheat was produced globally in 2017-18. The forecast […]