Farmers remained hesitant in sowing vegetable seeds in drought-hit areas.
Flour millers want import duty exemption.
The zones, says Panagariya, would have to be set up near deep-draft ports, capable of accommodating very large and heavily loaded ships
India exports about 1.5 mt of onion every year.
The praise comes a year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi termed it a 'monument of UPA's failures'.
MNREGS labourers are usually engaged in irrigation projects.
Finance ministry's drive is meant to meet fiscal deficit target and improve overall efficiency in government spending.
Agri experts are meeting FinMin ministry officials on Monday to give their inputs on the Budget.
Bullion may settle with limited upside potential
NDDB had helped dairy farmers direct their own development, placing control of the resources they created in their own hands.
For the first time the government is organising an event where consolidated efforts would be made to help start-ups.
Indian farming was transformed after the mid-60s.
The well-irrigated states of Punjab, Haryana, Karnataka, western Uttar Pradesh and coastal states such as Odisha are, for the first time, feeling the effects of a poor monsoon.
Most farmers depend on rainwater for farming.
In India, 173 people defecate in the open for every square km.
Prices moved up sharply in recent months.
The Centre has decided to create a buffer stock of 350,000 tonnes.
'We need to do more to accelerate growth.'
Trend could continue on downward revision in winter harvests.
Procurement will be done through domestic purchases as well as imports.
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