-Business Standard Meteorologists said the slump could push the cumulative monsoon into the negative zone for the first time New Delhi: The southwest monsoon, which has had a stupendous run so far in 2016, has entered a weak phase for the first time since it gathered steam in July over most parts of the country. Eastern, northeastern India and parts of central India have been spared from this lull, which might continue...
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Modi commends farmers for planting record pulses this kharif -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard Pulses acreage in the current Kharif season is almost 40 per cent more than last year and is even more than the average area covered in last five years The stupendous increase in sowing of pulses during the ongoing kharif season didn't escape Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s eye. During his Independence Day speech, the PM commended farmers for raising the area under pulses this season to almost 1.5 times more...
More »Heavy rains bring down prices of pulses -Jayashree Bhosale
-The Economic Times PUNE: Sowing reports from across India's pulses growing regions have indicated a bumper area under the crop tipping domestic and international prices that have corrected over the last 15 days setting a downward trend in prices. A July 26th forecast by National Australia Bank predicted a fall in chick peas and lentils from their peak of $1,200/tonne to $700/tonne by September 2017. The report, however, noted that prices of pulses...
More »A finger on the pulse -M Venkaiah Naidu
-The Hindu Business Line The Government has several short and long-term strategies to achieve self-sufficiency Who can deny that pulses are at the core of the average Indian diet? Therefore, the NDA government’s multi-pronged short-term and long-term strategies to meet the growing consumption of pulses in the country — from importing to increasing production through new technologies, and making cultivation attractive to farmers — is to be welcomed. In fact, pulses play...
More »IMD sees monsoon rains picking up pace in first week of August -Prerna Kapoor and Nikita Mehta
-Livemint.com Government forecaster India Meteorological Department (IMD) says rainfall was 4% below the long-period average for the country as a whole New Delhi: After a slowdown in most parts of the country in the past week, the monsoon is expected to see a pickup in north-west and central India in the first week of August. Government forecaster India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday said rainfall was 4% below the long-period average (the...
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