The 2025 edition of the State of Food and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report reveals that hunger affected 720 million people worldwide in 2024. This represents about...
The Government of India continues to implement the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) system for fertilizer subsidies as of 2025. This system ensures that subsidies reach farmers directly through...
India’s retail food inflation dropped to -1.06% in June 2025, the lowest since 2019. However, some essential items like vegetable oils remain costly. Coconut oil prices have surged...
Recent advances in irrigation management have shown promising results in saving water in drought-prone areas of India. Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) and...
The rubber plantations of Kerala face a serious threat from a beetle-fungus alliance. Researchers at the Kerala Forest Research Institute have identified the ambrosia beetle, *Euplatypus parallelus*, as...
India’s consumer price index (CPI) inflation in June 2025 fell to 2.1% year-on-year. This rate is lower than the United States’ 2.7% and the United Kingdom’s 3.6%. Food...
India’s Agriculture Ministry recently took strong steps to regulate biostimulants amid rising farmer complaints. Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan directed states to stop forcing farmers to buy...
The Assam government has recently introduced a subsidy scheme offering Rs 5 per litre of milk to dairy farmers. This initiative aims to increase milk production and improve...
The Government of India has increased the reserve prices of wheat and rice from its strategic foodgrain reserves for the fiscal year 2025-26. This move aims to manage...
Recent data from the 2025 OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook marks a major shift in global cereal consumption. By 2034, only 40 per cent of cereals will be used directly...
