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Increase e-purchase limit for NAFED to help farmers: Ajit Pawar to Paswan

As the next crop is soon expected to reach the markets if the NAFED doesn't purchase their onions on time the prices of onion will fall more, said Ajit Pawar

Force majeure to ban on transport of minerals, here're the key court orders

Legal consequences of the coronavirus-triggered lockdown have apparently been dealt with differently by high courts, and the Supreme Court is yet to grapple with them in an appeal

India to export 90,000 tonnes of surplus wheat to Afghanistan, Lebanon

. According to the second government estimate, the country is set to harvest a record wheat production of 106.21 million tonne in the 2019-20 crop year on the back of good rains

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Govt to extend urad imports till June to meet domestic shortage: Report

Meanwhile, the government has decided to offload 5 lakh tonne pulses from its buffer stock to both state governments as well as in the open market.

To control prices, MMTC to import additional 12,500 tn onion from Turkey

The latest contract of onions will begin arriving in India from mid-January onwards

MMTC to procure 6,090 tonnes onion to boost supply, control prices

While MMTC has been tasked to import onions, cooperative Nafed will supply the key kitchen items in the domestic market

NAFED issues international tender to buy, import 100,000 tonnes of corn

The tender closes on Dec. 3 with offers having to remain valid up to Dec. 24.

India's pulse imports to rise this year on rain-induced crop damage

Scenario is precarious for urad with almost half the crop damaged in major growing states, tur quota of 400,000 tonnes already exhausted

Surge in onion prices due to floods, relief likely by Nov-end: Paswan

Earlier today, the Union Minister held a meeting with Consumer Affairs Secretary AK Srivastava and Food Secretary Ravikant over the rising onion prices and the onion import issue.

Inter-ministerial panel reviews prices, availability of onions, tomatoes

The meeting was informed that there have been some disruptions in the supplies because of Diwali holidays and rains in some of the growing areas affecting harvesting

Centre assures immediate and ample onion supply to states as demand rises

Earlier this week, the Centre had taken several decisions to curb the rise in onion prices

Relief for farmers as Nafed plans massive mustard seed purchases at MSP

The produce is trading at Rs 3,500-3,700 a quintal in the ongoing rabi season across all wholesale mandis, which is around 15-20 per cent discount to MSP of Rs 4,200

Procurement completed, Nafed to restart groundnut auction on Monday

The agency has announced closure of procurement of groundnut early this week in most mandis due to lack of arrivals

Nafed sells 5.5 lakh tonne subsidised pulses to 11 states for PDS: Official

The pulses being allocated to the states are the one which have been procured directly from farmers under the Price Support Scheme

Nafed to set up 100 bio-CNG plants via PPP with Rs 5,000-cr investment

Nafed chief said each unit will have a capacity to process at least 100-300 tonne agri-waste, from which one-tenth of the CNG will be produced

Bank guarantee limit for pulses & oilseeds for Nafed doubled to Rs 190 bn

In view of fall in prices of pulses and oilseeds below the MSP, the provision of government guarantee will help in protecting the farmers from making distress sales during the peak arrival period

NAFED to procure pulses, oilseeds using NeML platform

The National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED), a a government agency for agricultural produce market intervention, and NCDEX e Markets Ltd. (NeML)- oldest online agri commodity trading platform and services company in India have signed an agreement for creating a e- platform for procurement of Pulses and Oilseeds across the country. The e-procurement platform is Aadhaar enabled online, and transparent platform that provides an end to end solution from farm-gate till its storage in a warehouse and its disposal. The platform would be used by all NAFED State units for procurement of pulses and oilseeds. NeML would work closely with NAFED team at the center and states to ensure the execution of the e-procurement platform. Sanjeev Chaddha, Managing Director and CEO of NAFED said "Our agreement with NeML would help NAFED in creating an efficient transparent and competitive e-procurement platform in line with its expanding role in helping pulse growers get a ...

NAFED to provide market linkages to Punjab potato farmers

NAFED is working on three options to help Punjab farmers

Nafed goes for two VCs

Board to forward revival package along with dissent notes