Wheat procurement has crossed 38 million tonnes in the current marketing year so far as the government's wheat purchase drive is coming to close in the most of growing states.

"The Food Corporation

Every day some 3,000 Indian children die from illnesses related to malnutrition, and yet countless heaps of rodent-infested wheat and rice are rotting in fields across the north of their own country.

India is planning to export two million tonnes of wheat from government stock involving a subsidy of Rs 1,000 crore and a decision in this regard is expected soon.

The proposal is to be taken u

Rising temperatures are going to hit India hard and by the end of the century the mean temperature rise is expected to be between 3.5 and 4.3 degrees Celsius.

This is bound to have a deleterious effe

The Centre on Thursday directed the state governments to exempt the bonus amount payable on wheat procured from farmers at minimum support price from the purview of value added tax (VAT) and other levies.

British scientists have mapped the genetic code of wheat, which is five times larger than the human genome, a breakthrough they claim would ease pressure on the world's food supply and help stabilise