-Press Information Bureau/ Ministry of Finance · Record food grains production of 264.4 mt in the year 2013-14 · Record production of oilseeds of 32.4 mt in the year 2013-14 · Record production of pulses of 19.6 mt in the year 2013-14 · ...
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Milk production touches a record high of 132.43 mt in 2012-13
-Press Information Bureau/ Ministry of Finance India recorded a peak production of milk at 132.43 mt in the year 2012-13 according to the Economic Survey for 2013-14, released in New Delhi today. India ranks first in global milk production and accounts for 17 per cent of world production. Milk production has become an important secondary source of income for 70 million rural households engaged in dairying and for 70 per cent...
More »Bitter sweet -Alok Sinha
-The Indian Express Healing the sugar sector and curbing inflation need brave reform. The first month of great expectations is over. But no magic is possible in such a short period of time. The treasury is scraping the bottom of the barrel, and reviving growth calls for herculean efforts to put the economy back on the rails. Meanwhile, fears of an impending failure of the monsoon have spiked inflation, which is at...
More »Bio farming brings another ‘green revolution’ in Dantewada
-The Pioneer Dantewada: Bio farming has altered the direction and way of 2,000-year-old traditional agricultural practices of farmers residing in villages such as Bhusaras, Hiranaar and Surnaar of Dantewada district of Bastar region. With a unique way of farming, without using hybrid seeds, fertilizer, insecticides, and modern and costly farm implements, the farmers of these villages have produced 4-5 times more crops. Because of the agricultural practice here, the Central Government has declared...
More »Little respite
-The Business Standard Unlike consumer prices, wholesale inflation provides little comfort If the consumer price index (CPI) numbers for May, released last week, provided some comfort about softening inflation, the wholesale price index (WPI) numbers for the same month, released on Monday, did just the opposite. Headline inflation went up from 5.2 per cent year on year in April to six per cent in May, the highest, by a whisker, since December....
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