03/16/2026 SOURCE: economictimes.indiatimes.com
India's horticulture production is set to remain steady in 2025-26. Vegetable output is expected to rise, driven by onions and potatoes
India’s horticulture production to increase marginally in 2025-26: First Advance Estimate
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03/16/2026 SOURCE: economictimes.indiatimes.com
Proxy Firm InGovern notes that UPL's integrated crop protection platform - UPL Global emerges as among the largest listed global crop protection pure-plays by revenue, leveraging consolidated global and Indian scale in herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and biosolutions. It highlighted UPL Global's backend moat that assured supply from UPL Limited's Superform manufacturing, R&D integration, and specialty chemicals
Backward supply integration to trigger valuation re-rating post demerger: InGovern on UPL Global
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09/25/2025 SOURCE: economictimes.indiatimes.com
GTRI cautions that allowing US GM farm products under a trade pact could harm India's agri exports to the EU due to strict GM labeling and consumer resistance. Cross-contamination risks from India's weak agri-logistics could lead to shipment rejections and damage India's GMO-free image. Currently, India only allows Bt cotton cultivation and imports of GM soybean and canola oil.
India, US trade deal may backfire on EU exports if India opens door to GM feed: GTRI
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12/14/2023 SOURCE: economictimes.indiatimes.com
Like Indias Open Network for Digital Commerce, or ONDC, Gambias new network Open Gambia is underpinned by the Beckn Protocol – an open specification that creates a common language for interoperability among different digital platforms to facilitate peer-to-peer economic transactions – that is attracting increasing interest from around the world.
From retail to beekeeping, Beckn finds takers in distant shores
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11/25/2023 SOURCE: economictimes.indiatimes.com
A new method of cultivation, called direct seeded rice (DSR), reduces the overall cost of cultivation by using 12-35% less irrigation water and reducing labor, sowing time, and use of chemical herbicides and fertilisers. The cultivation of rice, a staple food for more than 3 billion people worldwide, is responsible for 12% of global methane emissions and 1.5% of total greenhouse gas emissions.
Indian farmers rack up carbon credits with climate-conscious ways
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Rice, Crop Consultant, Agriculture Global, Economics, Ag India, World Hunger,
India's record rice crop brings problem of plenty for farmers juggling protest
The sit-in against controversial agriculture reforms is taking place in the capital, miles away from the five acres (2 hectares) of lush green rice paddies tended by Sukrampal Beniwal in his village of Munak, in the northern state of Haryana.
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Topics: Cotton, Commodities, Agriculture Global, Economics, Ag India, Trade (Commodities), Commodity/Trade Groups,
Greaves Cotton hits lifetime high. Why analysts remain gung ho on this stock
Shares of Greave Cotton have outperformed markets, rising as much as 105 per cent in the year 2021 so far. In the last one month the counter is up by 35 per cent.
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Commodities, Markets/Pricing, Agriculture Global, Economics, Ag India, Coronavirus/COVID,
View: Prices for agri commodities are surging. It won't last
A push higher in food prices is to be expected as developed countries start returning to normal after a year of pandemic.
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Topics: Irrigation, Crop Consultant, Economics, Sustainability, Ag India, Government / Policies, World Population,
Govt proposes 10% hike in farm loan target for FY22; announces agri infra development cess
The minister also proposed higher allocation for Rural Infrastructure Development Fund and Micro Irrigation Fund, and extended Agriculture Infrastructure Fund to APMCs for augmenting infrastructure facilities.
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Topics: Crop Consultant, Sustainability, Ag India, Ag Innovation, World Hunger, Government / Policies, World Population, Coronavirus/COVID,
Will the new Agriculture Infrastructure & Development Cess affect common man?
The Finance Minister has presented the budget, which overall did not seem to touch the middle class in any major way. There was an Agriculture Infrastructure & Development Cess (AIDC), which has been brought in to aid the agri sector. The cess is not uniform and varies from product to product.
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