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The Dollar Business Bureau There has been a record output of food grains in the country in 2016-17 and all the earlier records were broken, said Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Friday. “As per the 3rd Advance Estimates, food grain production India has increased to 273 MT, sugarcane to 306 MT oil seeds to 32.5 MT, in 2016-17,” said Singh, while addressing the National Agriculture Marketing Summit organised jointly by FICCI with the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. “As per the 2nd Advance Estimate, fruits and vegetable production has increased to 287 MT, he added. On the goal of doubling income of farmers by 2022, the Minister said that only through cross-pollination of innovations and expertise, and thereafter collaboration during the implementation ...

PTI Inflation based on the wholesale price index slipped to 5.7% in March as manufactured goods showed cost decline even as food prices hardened. The WPI inflation, reflecting the annual rate of price rise, in February was 6.55%. In March 2016, the print came in at (-) 0.45%. According to official data released today, food prices saw a sharp rise of 3.12% in March compared to 2.69% in the previous month. This is primarily because of a steep price jump in vegetables where inflation stood at 5.7%. As for fruits, the figure was also high at 7.62%, while for egg, meat and fish, it was 3.12%. Fuel inflation declined to 18.16%, from 21.02% in February. The ...

The Dollar Business Bureau To mull over use of ethylene gas in the ripening of fruits and vegetables, the food safety regulator FSSAI has invited comments from public to make amendments. The statement said that fruit can be ripened artificially with the help of ethylene gas at a concentration of 100 ppm depending upon the nature of the crop. Ethylene can quicken the process of ripening of climatic fruits even after they are being picked from the plant. It is commonly used in bananas, when they are picked raw but ripened with the help of the gas after shipment. Also, FSSAI in a separate notification spoke about the permissible limit of heavy metals in food products and has issued regulations of draft quality fixing ...

Himanshu Vatsa | The Dollar Business Falling prices in the global commodity market led to negative growth in India’s exports of major agriculture items, including tea, cereals, tobacco and oil meals, last year. According to the annual data released by the Ministry of Commerce, six of the 11 key agricultural export products – tea, cereals, tobacco, spices, oil meals, and fruits and vegetables— recorded negative growth between April 2014 and March 2015. Of the six major items, oil meals witnessed the biggest fall of 52.73%, reducing the total exports value from US$ 2,796 million in 2013-14 to just US$ 1,321 million last year. At the same time, exports of rice, coffee and cashew also witnessed only marginal changes as ...