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India’s food surpluses are marginal -Siraj Hussain

-Moneycontrol.com To become a reliable exporter, India needs to adopt climate-resilient technologies and a digital system of traceability of agricultural produce The success of the green revolution and the use of technology in agriculture made India a nation surplus in some crops. This enabled India to emerge as a large exporter of rice and sugar. In the following years, wheat was also exported, although Indian wheat was mostly uncompetitive in the global...

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Rice market set for a bull run -Subramani RA Mancombu

-The Hindu Business Line World over Rice Production is likely to fall due to a combination of drought and floods Three developments over the past couple of months have put the global rice market in focus. First, the India curbed rice exports by banning shipments of fully broken rice and imposing a 20 per cent duty on white rice exports. Second, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar told the...

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Punjab, Haryana can hedge India against climate-induced food shortages. See data - Siraj Hussain and Shweta Saini

-ThePrint.in The two states earned a lot of flak during the farmers’ agitation for demanding continuation of the existing system of APMCs and MSP operations. The global events of the last one year, especially during the Russia-Ukraine war, have again shown the importance of food security to the world. It is critical for India too as it has to provide food to a large population of about 1.39 billion people. Punjab and...

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A year of extreme weather events has weighed heavy on India’s agricultural sector -Vivek Gupta

-India.mongabay.com * After the drop in wheat production due to heat waves, extreme weather events have now cast a shadow on Rice Production, which is likely to drop beyond centre’s initial 6% loss estimate. * In six years (2015-21), the country lost 33.9 million hectares of the cropped area due to floods and excess rains and 35 million hectares due to drought, which are likely to intensify as various studies predict. * Centre...

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Bengal’s premium variety aromatic rice witnesses 11% decline in price -Shobha Roy

-The Hindu Business Line Production of Gobindobhog rice is estimated to be 5-7 per cent higher this year on the back of a better-quality crop giving a better paddy to rice conversion rate West Bengal’s premium variety of aromatic rice — Gobindobhog – has witnessed a near 11 per cent decline in prices on the back of prospects of arrival of a higher crop and better quality produce. The imposition of 20...

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