Prabhudatta Mishra
Reporter at Financial Express
Reporter at The Hindu Business Line
Love to report on farming, food, fertilizer, commodities from India for @businessline
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2 months ago |
thehindubusinessline.com | Prabhudatta Mishra
Rice procurement has slowed down in March, as the increase of 5 per cent as of February 28 has come down to a lead of 1 per cent as of March 31, after the 2024-25 season began on October 1 last year. Experts view this as a good sign, as the government has been facing problems in disposing of the surplus after meeting the requirement under food security law and other welfare schemes, estimated at about 41 million tonnes.
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2 months ago |
thehindubusinessline.com | Prabhudatta Mishra
The wheat procurement season began on Tuesday with the Food Corporation of India (FCI) registering a lead of nearly 6 lakh tonnes (lt) compared with the last year due to early purchase staring from March 10 in Rajasthan. Given the arrival trend and a stronger push in Uttar Pradesh, the Centre may achieve the targeted 313 lt in the next two months, experts said.
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2 months ago |
thehindubusinessline.com | Prabhudatta Mishra
As the government gears up to cover at least 1 district in non-covered states under the “digital crop survey” (DCS) after 23 crore plots in 3 lakh villages of 435 districts in 14 states are already mapped for the Centre’s ambitious programme, it has been found that there is 19 per cent jump in acreage data from the manual estimate of the crop sown area.
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2 months ago |
thehindubusinessline.com | Prabhudatta Mishra
Punjab, Haryana and Karnataka are among major states who are yet to join the Central farmers’ registry. So far, 4.52 crore farmers have been registered and provided farmer ID cards out of 10.01 crore targeted in 12 states including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The Farmer Registry is currently compiling the record of all the land-holding farmers while non-land owning farmers will be included in subsequent phases.
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2 months ago |
thehindubusinessline.com | Prabhudatta Mishra
The Union Cabinet has approved ₹37,216.15 crore subsidy under the nutrient-based subsidy scheme for fertilizers during the next kharif season, as against ₹24,474.53 crore allocated in 2024-25 rabi season. The rise is mainly on account of the hike in global rates of phosphatic fertilizers. The subsidy for nitrogen (N) will be ₹43.02/kg in kharif season 2025 starting April, which is the same as it was in the rabi season of 2024-25.
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