Agriculture experts expressed concerns over shrinking of farm land by nearly 0. 2 million hectares and suggested enacting strong legislation to stop shifting of land for non-farming purposes

India will have a all-time high foodgrain production of over 252 million tonne in FY12 with a record output of wheat, rice and cotton, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said today.

Under intense political pressure, the UPA government on Monday decided to allow further export of cotton in the ongoing crop year, which will run till September 2012.
The government cited

The government has lifted a ban on cotton exports, the trade minister said on Monday, after a series of policy flip-flops from the world's second-biggest producer of the fibre, a

The government may allow fresh cotton exports based on revised production and consumption data furnished by the Cotton Advisory Board. A final decision will be taken on the issue

Increasing yields will help farmers harvest a record 270 million tonnes of grains in the 2016/17 crop year, leaving an exportable surplus of 10 million tonnes, Farm Secretary Prabeer Kumar

The government may look at free export of rice and wheat in the light of a record 252 million tones of foodgrain production. Sugar and cotton exports with some

Fresh cotton exports are unlikely in the near future with the government maintaining a status quo on its earlier decision. This means while the director general of foreign trade