Union Food Secretary Sanjeev Chopra stated on Thursday that the government is optimistic of a record wheat harvest of 112.18 million tonne in the June 2022-23 crop year, despite poor grain quality in some regions of the country.
On Friday, consumer affairs secretary Rohit Kumar Singh issued a directive to retailers urging them not to maintain an "unreasonably low" profit margin on pulses, particularly turdal.
Food secretary Sanjeev Chopra stated on Thursday that the Department of Food and Public Distribution is considering easing the fair and average quality (FAQ) standards for wheat during the current rabi marketing season.
In 2019, a group of 20 farmers in the Alluri Sitharama Raju district of Andhra Pradesh decided to start producing seeds of finger millet (ragi) and little millet (samai). They had no idea what the future would bring.