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• Dubai receives GI-Certified Jalgaon Bananas from India

  A batch of fiber and mineral-rich Jalgaon bananas has been sent to Dubai, boosting exports of Geographical Indications (GI) recognized agricultural product.…

• Korea Imports Amla Powder from India

  KoreaShop 24, a B2B business, imports a container of the superfood, which is thought to improve immunity.…

• Exports of Agricultural Products Increased by 19% in April-February of FY21

  Agriculture and related goods worth Rs 2.74 lakh crore were exported in the first 11 months of last fiscal year, up 18.6 percent from Rs 2.31 lakh crore the year before, while imports rose slightly by 3% to Rs 1.41 lakh crore.…

• US Corn, Soybean, Cotton plantings report falls below Market Expectations; What to interpret from the data

  Global agricultural commodity market slowly attempts to come out from the clutches of the COVID-19 pandemic. The futures markets for both soybean and corn responded in a powerfully positive manner last Wednesday after release of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual Prospective Plantings Report. Overall,…

• Cumin Seed (Jeera) Markets Likely to Generate Better Profits for Indian Farmers

  Jeera markets are maintaining a strong trend since past few weeks. Trade environment has changed of late as exports outlook has brightened, against lower crop estimations. India is the biggest exporter of the spice, contributing over 80% of the total cumin production of the world.…

• 1,094 farmers’ panels formed to buy agri machinery

  East Godavari Joint Collector G. Lakshmisha said on Wednesday thatby April, 1,094 groups of local farmers had been formed to operate theagricultural machinery centres set up at the district's Rythu Bharosa Kendras.…

• How PMFBY and Farmitra App helps Gaje Singh, a Progressive Farmer from Haryana

  Mr. Gaje Singh, fromVillage: Nagli, Block: Bilaspur, District-Fatehabad, Haryana, has been a progressive farmer for many years.…

• IGNOU Starts Online Certificate Course in Gender, Agriculture & Sustainable Development; Details Inside

  Postgraduate certificate in Agriculture policy, Eligibility, and Course Duration…

• EPA announces grant funding to Focus Points Family Resource Center to develop an urban agriculture training program in Northeast Denver

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the agency will award Focus Points Family Resource Center of Northeast Denver $70,000 in grant funding to develop their Huerta Urbana urban agriculture project.…

• In Maharashtra, 39 percent APMCs join e-NAM

  Stakeholders believe that efforts should be taken to extend the scope of e-NAM. e-NAM, a pan-India electronic trade network, has linked 118 of the State's 306 Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs), which is a device that connects existing physical APMC mandis that can be viewed…

• Five days Orientation Training Programme on Integrated Pest Management held at Horticulture Training Institute, Karnal

  Five days Orientation Training Programme on Integrated Pest Management was organized by the Regional Central IPM Centre (RCIPMC), Directorate of Plant Protection, Quarantine and Storage, Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India, Faridabad from March 1-5,…

• USDA Report to be Released on 9 March; Eyes on Soybean End Stocks Projections

  The next USDA report will be released on March 9th and all eyes are now keen over the global soybean ending stocks projections. Therefore in the upcoming release, most will focus on what revisions are being done in the projected carryover stocks of global soybean…

• Top 20 Agricultural Facts That Will Amaze You

  Facts about Indian and foreign agriculture, its production, and economic growth.…

• Wheat Procurement Could Increase by 10% to 427 Lakh Tonnes

  On record production, wheat procurement is projected to grow 9.56 percent to 427.36 lakh tonne during the 2021-22 rabi marketing season, according to the government.…

• 3 Rabi crops witness record high production in 2020-21: Government

  With production of at least three rabi crops — wheat, gram, and rapeseed and mustard — projected to hit new highs in crop year 2020-21, the government will face procurement challenges.…

• Rajasthan FPO & ITC MoU on Procurement of Organic Cumin

  Bhagirath Chaudhary continues his quest towards assisting Rajasthan farmers in getting their produce marketed to the right buyers. Earlier he had conducted a training program on Cumin in the State.…

• RCIPMC Inaugurates 5 Days IPM Orientation Training Programme for Agricultural & Horticultural Extension Workers

  The Regional Central Integrated Pest Management Centre-Faridabad under the Directorate of Plant Protection Quarantine & Storage inaugurated a 5 Day IPM orientation Training programme for the Agricultural & Horticultural Extension Workers of the State of Haryana. The training programme is being held at the Horticulture…

• FCI Recruitment 2021: Food Corporation of India invites applications for 89 vacancies, Details Inside

  Food Corporation of India Recruitment 2021: 89 vacancies: Registration Starts…

• Indian Coriander (Dhaniya) Market may appreciate further in coming weeks

  Coriander markets in the country traded with positive undertone during most of the week. Over previous week, the most active April futures contract of NCDEX had gained nearly 10 percent. Exports of spices and other value-added products during six months of FY21 stood at 7…

• Indian Agriculture Shows Positive Recovery Post Pandemic: Dr Shivendra Bajaj, FSII

  Agriculture sector in India helped in the speedy recovery of the economic growth post the pandemic. India’s agriculture and allied sectors helped the farm sector clock a growth rate of 3.4 percent in the financial year 2020-21.…

• India set to witness record crop size for 2020-2021 marketing season

  India’s second advance estimates of production of major crops for the 2020-21 marketing season clearly indicate a record production of 303.34 million tonnes of food grains. Thanks to the meticulous efforts from the farmers, research by agricultural scientists, and farming oriented policies of the Central…

• EKKI’s German JV EKKI HOMA wins Emerging Company Award

  EKKI HOMA Pvt Ltd, the International Joint Venture Alliance established in 2018 between the EKKI Group of India and HOMA Group of Germany has won Emerging Company Award from Indian Achievers’ Forum (IAF).…

• Apollo Hospitals Makes Millets Part of Hospital Diet, Procures from Female Farmers

  In partnership with more than 5,000 woman farmers working with the Deccan Development Society, Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad has facilitated the use of millets. 4,000 kg of millets have already been procured by the healthcare community and another 1,000 kg will be procured next month to…

• Turmeric Likely to offer decent returns for farmers this year

  It has been an impressive upside rally for turmeric in the current month. Prices have surged to a five-year high in 2021 because of lower crop outlook versus previous season, and upgrading of this year’s demand situation by the market men, as compared with the…

• Country’s Sugar Exports Declined by more than 40% for 2020-21 Sugar Year, Says ISMA

  As on 15thFebruary 2021, 183 sugar plants were working in Maharashtra and had delivered 75.46 lakh huge loads of sugar in comparision to 43.38 lakh tons created a year ago in a similar time period. 2 sugar plants have ended their activitiesIn the current year.…

• Tea Production in India Decreases by around 10%; Led to Increase in Price

  Sujit Patra, secretary of the Indian Tea Association, said that the main tea developing north-eastern region of the country has received strong rainfall over the last few months and that will lead to increased production in 2021.…

• Know Why Hundreds of Turmeric Farmers in Nizamabad are Protesting

  As the marketing season begins, prices have crashed to ₹4,000-5,000 a quintal. Hundreds of turmeric farmers in Nizamabad have taken to the streets at Armoor, demanding a minimum support price of ₹15,000 a quintal.…

• The Controversy over the Bhopal Tragedy Survivors (Vaccine trails in Question)

  Bhopal is all in the news again, probably for the wrong reasons!…

• Rabi Planting Rises by 2.61 Percent: Ministry of Agriculture

  The crop area has risen by 2.61 percent from last year, based on higher planting of pulses and oilseeds. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the region seeded for wheat, the main rabi crop, has also risen by 2.53 percent to 33.54 million hectares so…

• Biological Acquisitions during the International Year of Plant Health (Overseen as a Year of Pandemic)

  The year of a declared Pandemic, yet businesses continued to make decisions, such as when to invest in new capacity or technology, and the need for information is always there.…