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Urea demand may touch 288 lt next fiscal
Posted: March 11th, 2010, 7:46am EST
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Urea demand is likely to go up to 287.55 lakh tonne (lt) in 2011-12 from 266.47 lt in 2008-09, chemicals and fertilisers minister Srikant Kumar Jena said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. -
Govt to consider exports of grains: Pawar
Posted: March 4th, 2010, 1:08am EST
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India, sitting on a huge stockpile of grains, will soon discuss lifting a ban on exports of wheat and common grades of rice, the farm minister said on Thursday. -
Burma pulses deal failure to cost India dear
Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 3:03pm EST
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The government may have to import pulses through small tenders after it officially scrapped plans to procure three quarter million tonnes of pulses from Burma. -
Market potential for India's micro-irrigation sector could jump as much as 70%
Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 1:06pm EST
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The government may have to import pulses through small tenders after it officially scrapped plans to procure three quarter million tonnes of pulses from Burma. -
Despite budget benefits, fuel price rise to pinch farmers
Posted: February 28th, 2010, 3:02pm EST
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Punjab has not received any draught relief from the Centre for using its energy and water resources to maintain food production despite deficient rains. -
Farmers paid peanuts, over 40% looking for better avenues
Posted: February 24th, 2010, 4:46pm EST
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Bandya Pashte, 28, has been cultivating paddy on his family’s five-acre plot in village Veravli in the Konkan, Maharashtra’s coastal strip for about a decade. -
Vidarbha wants Rs 30,000 crore from Mukherjee's Budget kitty
Posted: February 24th, 2010, 1:30am EST
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Farmers in Maharashtra's Vidarbha region are hoping for a Rs 30,000 crore (Rs 300 billion) development package in Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's budget, only two days away. -
Non-GM soya varieties have immense opportunities
Posted: February 23rd, 2010, 12:58pm EST
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Trade associations related to soya are clear that the growing agri-biotech bandwagon has opened up immense new opportunities for safer, traditional, non-GM soya varieties. -
Problems of the agriculture sector should be addressed in the Budget
Posted: February 23rd, 2010, 12:43pm EST
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Media personalities feel that the problems of the agriculture sector should be addressed on a priority basis in the forthcoming Budget. -
New agri secretary appointed
Posted: February 23rd, 2010, 12:31pm EST
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The Appointment Committee of the Cabinet has approved the appointment of Prabeer Kumar Basu, IAS (BH:76) as Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture.