Reuters reported last week that a decision was taken after top officials from the ministries of agriculture, food, trade and finance met to discuss ways to curb overseas purchases when domestic st...
If the law is approved, India could overtake Australia as the world's third-largest exporter behind Brazil and Thailand.
The previous Congress-led government approved the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in August 2013. The country's 29 states and seven union territories had to implement it within a year.
Flour millers and global trading companies have sewn up deals to import 5,00,000 tonnes of premium Australian wheat despite surplus stocks at home, mainly on concerns that untimely rains in February a...
This year's rainfall is officially forecast to be only 88 per cent of the long-term average and, for the first time in nearly three decades, farmers face a second straight year of drought or droug...
"It's a serious matter concerning public health and the law allows us to take suo moto legal steps, or legal actions, against erring entities," said one official in the consumer affairs department...
The agriculture sector posted two straight quarters of negative growth of 1.1 per cent each to March.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi plans to provide millions of farmers with income insurance linked to crop prices, officials say, but it may not do much to ease rural distress, with small farmers stan...
Rains are expected to be 93 per cent of a long-term average, earth science minister Harsh Vardhan said, after releasing the forecast of the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
Flour millers have bought between 70,000 and 80,000 tonnes of Australian prime wheat for April-May shipment at $260-$265 a tonne, including cost and freight.