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Basmati rice export to restart this week after a year's gap

Export of Basmati rice from India is likely to re-start in couple of days as the government is learnt to have agreed to lower the minimum export price (MEP) from 940 dollars per tonne to 700 dollars per tonne. The lowering of the rate to prevalent international price around at 700 dollars per tonne will make the Indian produce cheaper as the earlier Indian rice was out-priced, an Indian exporter Jitender Dhingra told The .....

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Cooperative units should increase storage capacities

The Union Minister for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Sharad Pawar has said that cooperatives have a distinct role in post-harvest management and called upon the cooperative institutions to contribute for creation of storage and cold storage capacity. He was addressing the 72nd Meeting of General Council of National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) on Tuesday. Lauding the role of NCDC, .....

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Green Revolution expressed his concern over food security

Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, father of Green Revolution expressed his concern over food security challenges facing our country saying that these were serious and having their impact both in ecology and economics. He  was delivering the tenth convocation address at the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal. He stressed that we need to produce food and drinking water not only for 1.2 billion human population, .....

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Wheat Procurement Estimated 318.9 Lakh MTS for Forthcoming Marketing Season State Food Secretaries Reviews Procurement Arrangements

A meeting of State Food Secretaries of wheat procuring States was held here today under the chairmanship of Union Food Secretary, Dr. B.C. Gupta to review procurement arrangements for the forthcoming Rabi Marketing Season (RMS) 2012-13 in different States. The estimated procurement during RMS 2-12-13 as intimated by the States is 318.9 lakh MTs as compared to 283.34 lakh MT of actual procurement during RMS .....