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Onion export offtake to remain low

Onion prices continue to rule lower on lack of domestic and export demand. “There was total lack of demand in the domestic market. There were also no enquiries for onion exports,” said Mr Madan Prakash, Director of Chennai-based Rajathi Group of companies that exports agricultural produce. In Lasalgaon Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee yard in Maharashtra, the modal price or the rate at which most trades took place was .....

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Centre boosts capacity, but grain storage still remains a concern

More than 25,000 go-downs with an incremental capacity of 29 million tonne have been set up since 2001 under the Grameen Bhandaran Yojana to boost the storage of crops, according to an official statement, as the country has been striving to scale up production to feed its growing population. Under the scheme, the government offers subsidy at 25% of the project cost to farmers, cooperatives, central and state .....

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Demand for Indian rice up on higher Thailand price

As rice prices rise and supply tightens in Thailand, the world's largest exporter, buyers are increasingly turning to India to meet their needs though infrastructure bottlenecks may slowdown shipments, trading executives said. Thailand controls close to a third of global rice exports but India has started eating into that share after resuming shipments last month after the government relaxed a more than three-year-old ban on exports of .....

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Nabard sets apart Rs 2,000 cr for warehousing infrastructure

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has set apart an amount of Rs 2,000 crore during the current financial year for creation of warehousing infrastructure in different States. Incidentally, loans disbursed to State Governments by Nabard have crossed the Rs 1-lakh crore mark as on September 30. The warehouse fund is being made available under the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) tranche XVII, a spokesperson for the .....