The potato, a kitchen essential in Bengal that retailed at Rs 28 a kilo even a month ago, is now selling for Rs 40 in most markets of Calcutta amid murmurs that the price would keep climbing northward...

In a move to contain the spiralling prices of onions, the Centre on Friday imposed stock holding limit on retail and wholesale traders till December 31 to boost availability of the bulb crop and provi...

Bihar goes to the hustings in a few months. The primary issue seems to be rural livelihoods. This is a significant achievement for Nitish Kumar. Although law and order, public infrastructure and socia...

The economic survey on Friday has proposed the government should scythe food subsidies by “revisiting” the prices of foodgrains at ration shops and scrap the Essential Commodities Act, which is me...

The Union finance minister has announced as part of the stimulus package a number of schemes and reforms for the agricultural sector and allied activities. There are three broad sets of intervention. ...

The government on Friday announced a Rs 1.63 lakh crore package for agriculture and allied sectors aimed at strengthening infrastructure, logistics and capacity building at farmgate.Announcing the thi...

The Union cabinet on Wednesday allowed farmers to sell their products anywhere in the country, took steps to encourage contract farming and removed several items from the Essential Commodities Act.Far...

The Niti Aayog has been considering whether to keep the Essential Commodities Act 1955 in abeyance for 10 years, or to scrap it altogether. The Act enables the government to impose limits on stocks of...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced the third tranche of the government’s Rs 20-lakh crore economic package aimed at reviving India’s coronavirus-stalled economy with the latest meas...

Amid coronavirus-induced lockdown, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday deliberated on ways to reform the agriculture sector with emphasis on agriculture marketing, access of farmers to institutio...