Experts claim impact of breather limited as most hybrid vegetable seeds are sold by private companies.
Budget announcements will come right before five states, with population of around 250 million, go to polls.
Work in mandis across UP and in northern India which till Tuesday, witnessed heavy arrivals of newly harvested paddy, saw a steep decline.
The focus is likely to be on consolidation and improvement of existing rural-centric programmes to ensure their completion ahead of the next general elections in 2019, rather than announcement of new schemes. Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Arup Roychoudhury report.
Even as there is a strong anti-incumbency mood in Punjab, the multi-cornered contest has made the 2017 assembly polls prediction more difficult.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar wants the Modi government and BJP to reap the profit of the surgical strikes. But electoral history suggests a political party's ability to exploit military successes for poll gains has a mixed record.
BMS, BKS and SJM are trying to forge common cause with outfits on the other side of the ideological divide over the government's policies they are not in agreement with.
Most villagers decided to stay back to harvest crops, their only source of livelihood.
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian says that he hopes GDP growth will be at the upper end of the 7-7.5 per cent range.
The NITI Aayog has big plans for Indian sport.
The fund allocated for pulses buffer is more than 40% of entire farm ministry's 2016-17 budget.
Rains have been 5% below normal so far, but Met department sticks to its forecast
We have brought about a slew of reforms that would help improve governance and also facilitate industrial growth, Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje tells Sahil Makkar.
The textiles sector is India's largest organised employer and critical for the prime minister's dream of creating jobs
Officials say many politicians and retired bureaucrats make every effort to stay in these government bungalows.
Skymet said September would be much better and it expects it to end at 111 per cent of the LPA
In the global markets, pulses prices have slumped because of a bumper harvest.
Can the country afford to have problems of such magnitude in the cities of Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad, which not only are the major growth drivers but are also the biggest revenue contributors in their respective states?
Nagla Fatela, the village Prime Minister said had finally got electricity, is still without power, as are 1,282 other habitats in this UP district. Now, officials are scurrying to realise Modi's claim.
Agriculture ministry to prepare blueprint for purchasing onions directly from farmers and the expenditure on damages would be shared equally between the Centre and state governments.
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