Govt to procure tur directly from farmers at market rates to build buffer stock
By Pallavi Singhal With an acute shortage in India of its favourite pulse, tur, the Centre has decided to procure
Read moreBy Pallavi Singhal With an acute shortage in India of its favourite pulse, tur, the Centre has decided to procure
Read moreAfter signing memorandum of understandings (MoUs) with Mozambique, Malawi and Myanmar for importing pulses, India has approached Argentina and Brazil
Read moreUnion cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved that the central government will provide free grains
Read moreBy Sandip Das The government has ruled out cutting the import duty of chana and wheat for now, as it feels that
Read moreThe government plans to sharply increase its procurement of tur dal from a few metric tonnes to around 8-10 lakh
Read moreBy Sandip Das The country will continue importing large quantities of pulses and oilseeds by 2030-31 because of a substantial gap between
Read moreAfter making onion and flour available at subsidized rate, National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India (NCCF) is going to sell
Read moreThe government may revoke the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that it had with Mozambique for import of 200,000 tonnes of
Read moreBy Sanjeeb Mukherjee The Centre is confident that it has enough pulses stocks in its warehouse to effectively intervene in
Read moreIn view of the severe water shortage, the Guntur district administration is advising farmers to cultivate pulse crops during the
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