FM stresses the urgent need for reliable crop yield estimates Context: On Tuesday, Nirmala Sitharaman, the minister of finance and corporate affairs, made a compelling case for producing real-time forecasts of likely yields for all crucial crops, starting with the pulses and oilseeds that India […]
Pulses prices may spiral as deficient rain mars sowing Context The price of tomatoes may be coming down from recent highs, but pulses could be the next victim in the fight against inflation. This is because a below-average monsoon in August reduced the area sown […]