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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks to media on the Parliament premises in New Delhi in this Nov. 18, 2019 file photo. (Photo: Reuters/Altaf Hussain)

India’s Modi backs down on farm reforms in surprise win for protesters

Laws to be repealed in upcoming parliament session; protests to continue until then

By GFM Network News, Mayank Bhardwaj, Rajendra Jadhav November 19, 2021

Ghaziabad, India | Reuters — In a surprise announcement Friday, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he would repeal agriculture laws that farmers have been protesting against for more than a year, sparking celebrations for what farmers called a hard-fought victory. Modi’s decision is a significant climb-down for the combative leader and comes as state

File photo of a chickpea crop in India. (Nikhil Patil/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Pulses, Weather

Pulse weekly outlook: India’s rabi season underway

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin November 17, 2021

MarketsFarm — Farmers in India are in the process of planting their next pulse crops, with good monsoon rains and high prices setting the stage for solid production. India has two major growing seasons, kharif and rabi, with the major pulses grown in the rabi season. Planting for rabi crops typically begins in November, after

Farmers arrive with blankets and mattresses for others at the site of a protest against farm laws at Ghaziabad, India on Jan. 29, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui)

Crops

Son of India government minister arrested, accused of killing farmers

Junior home minister's son was 'not co-operating' in probe

By GFM Network News, Reuters October 12, 2021

Lucknow | Reuters — Ashish Mishra, son of junior home minister Ajay Mishra Teni, has been arrested on accusations he ran over and killed four protesting farmers last week, a senior police official said. The farmers, killed on Oct. 3 in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, were part of India’s longest-running agricultural protest, opposing

Farmers plant saplings in a rice field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India on July 5, 2019. (File photo: Reuters/Amit Dave)

Crops, Weather

India unveils new rice variety to reduce water use, labour

By GFM Network News, Mayank Bhardwaj September 28, 2021

New Delhi | Reuters — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday launched an array of new high-yielding crop varieties, including herbicide-tolerant rice that can be directly sown into the soil, cutting expenditure on water and farm workers. In India, the world’s biggest rice exporter, the conventional method of rice cultivation requires farmers to sow

CBOT December 2021 oats (candlesticks) with 20-, 50- and 100-day moving averages (yellow, brown and black lines). (Barchart)

Crops, Markets, Weather

CBOT weekly outlook: Factors worth watching

Oats showing recent strength

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm August 25, 2021

MarketsFarm — Choppiness in Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soyoil, a potential increase in corn prices and an upcoming production report from Statistics Canada are factors on which grains analyst Terry Reilly suggests keeping an eye. Soyoil has been hit by early reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was going to recommend to the

Green lentils. (Savany/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Pulse trade with India strong, but flawed

By Adam Peleshaty, GFM Network News August 17, 2021

MarketsFarm — India remains as the largest international buyer of Canadian lentils, despite factors affecting trade between the two countries. While Western Canada deals with drought conditions which have likely lowered this year’s lentil crop, the Indian government’s restrictions on imports have threatened to hinder Canadian exports. “Despite tariffs and technical measures in place that

News

India contests Cambodia’s claim of buffalo meat infected with COVID-19

By Neha Arora, Rajendra Jadhav August 17, 2021

Reuters – On July 28 India contested Cambodia’s claims that Indian buffalo meat was infected with COVID-19, saying it exports the meat only after getting COVID-free certification. Cambodia earlier in the week said three out of five containers of frozen buffalo meat imported from India tested positive for coronavirus. India’s Agricultural and Processed Food Products

India to launch $1.48 bln plan to raise oilseed output, cut imports

By GFM Network News, Mayank Bhardwaj, Rajendra Jadhav August 9, 2021

New Delhi | Reuters – India will launch a 110 billion rupee ($1.48 billion) plan to boost domestic oilseed production to make the country self-sufficient in edible oil, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday, a move that will cut costly vegetable oil imports. India is the world’s biggest vegetable oil importer and spends an

Crops, Markets

Pulse weekly outlook: India’s tariff elimination has little effect on Canada

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm June 2, 2021

MarketsFarm — A temporary elimination of some import duties on three pulses currently has little effect on Canada, according to Mac Ross, director of market access and trade policy for Pulse Canada. Earlier in mid-May, the Indian government ordered the suspension of tariffs on pigeon peas, mung beans and urad/black gram lentils until Oct. 31.

Markets, News

India’s soybean planting could rise by over 10 per cent on record prices

By Rajendra Jadhav May 28, 2021

Reuters – Indian farmers are likely to expand their soybean-planting area by more than a tenth in 2021 as record-high prices for the oilseed could prompt some to switch from cultivating competing commodities such as cotton and pulses, industry officials said. Increased production of India’s main summer-sown oilseed could help the world’s biggest vegetable oil

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