Police have seized around 1,000 kg of marijuana worth nearly Rs 20 mln (€240,000) at Bhind in Madhya Pradesh from a truck carrying bananas from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
According to CRISIL Research data, the tomato prices in India, which surged by 142% year-on-year in November, will continue to go up over the next 45-50 days.
While recently, the price of tomatoes has shot up owing to crop failure due to bad weather, the area under cultivation has come down. Tomatoes are mostly cultivated at Madukkarai, Thondamuthur and Kinathukadavu blocks in the district.
The grape season in India is starting and despite floods in some parts of the country, the grape growing regions did not experience many unseasonal rains this year.
Extreme weather conditions, mostly heavy winds and almost incessant rain between August and October, have resulted in massive crop loss in the district.
Kashmir’s horticultural industry is set to harvest the fruits of innovation. Kiwi plants, which were introduced by the SKUAST in 1987 on an experimental basis, have now started bearing fruit.
The Indian Civil Aviation Ministry has announced waiver of landing, parking and route navigation charges for freighters at select Airport Authority of India-operated airports to promote transport of agricultural products from North East states and hilly a
Due to mounting consumer demand for full product disclosure, Kocoatrait, a bean-to-bar chocolate maker from India, now pledges price transparency across its luxury chocolate assortment.
The introduction of a digital US dollar might aid in democratizing banking in poorer countries, but it could also pose a risk to local currencies if it were readily accessible, said former Indian central bank governor Raghuram Rajan in a statement.
Growers from different areas of South Kashmir have made clear that in 2020, around 50 percent of produce was kept in cold storage units as compared to 2019 This year, the demand of apple remained very good throughout the year despite Covid restrictions du
India’s Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), an organization under the federal Ministry of Commerce and Industry, will dispatch the first-ever shipment of bananas from Uttar Pradesh to Iran by sea route.
Indian exporters are expectant as the Indian government has extended the deadline for the re-export of imported vessels lying at different domestic ports by three months.