Tag: pulses

Area under maize gains as Indian growers switch from cotton, pulses

Farmers have planted more corn (maize) in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra and the total area under the hardy crop

The overall acreage of kharif crops has reached 94 per cent of the normal area of 1,091.73 lakh hectares (lh)

With only about 15 per cent area remaining to be covered to reach normal coverage of the Kharif season, the

Amid prediction of a two-week “break monsoon” phase over most parts of the country, paddy crop — the key cereal

The momentum in paddy transplanting continues as acreage under the crop is higher by 2 per cent at 237.58 lakh

India’s imports of pulses such as tur (peas) and aurad (black matbi) more than doubled in the April-June quarter to

Indian government’s Khareef sowing data shows a significant improvement in rice cultivation which is likely to help ease the government’s

Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food, Public Distribution, Textiles, Trade and Industry, Piyush Goyal, has launched the sale of subsidized

The area under rice cultivation in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand is higher than it was a year ago even

It appears that farmers are planting more millet, or ‘Shri Anna’, in response to a possible lack of rainfall this