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Centre forms panel to save wheat from heat

Last year, a similar disastrous hot spell in March, when temperatures leapt to record highs, crippled wheat yields as output shrank 2.5% in the world’s second-largest producer, stoking a crisis-like situation.

Workers fill sacks with wheat at the market yard of the Agriculture Product Marketing Committee (APMC) on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, in May 2022. (REUTERS/FILE)
Updated on Feb 22, 2023 04:46 AM IST

Five people booked after sand, dust found in government-procured wheat. Video

Sand, dust particles mixed with wheat to increase the weight before it is dispatched for distribution under PDS.

Sand, dust particles mixed with wheat to increase the weight before it is dispatched for distribution under PDS.(HT)
Updated on Feb 03, 2023 01:09 PM IST
BySnehashish Roy

Record wheat crop likely as acreage up

Robust wheat output, sown in November and harvested in March-April, will ease the current shortage and help put a lid on record cereal inflation

Officials expect a bumper wheat crop because cultivators have sown expensive, high-yielding varieties in nearly all of Punjab, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh. (AP)
Published on Jan 28, 2023 11:06 PM IST
By, New Delhi

Cold weather likely to help India reap bumper harvest of wheat and mustard

Robust winter crops, which account for half of the country’s annual food output, will help to cool food inflation and replenish stocks after a year of tight supply of rice and wheat

million tonnes from 109.59 million tonnes a year earlier, according to the government data. (PTI)
Updated on Jan 11, 2023 05:10 AM IST
By, New Delhi

‘When wheat used to be at 1.6 rupees per kg’: IFS officer posts J Form from '80s

IFS officer Parveen Kaswan took to Twitter to share his grandfather's J From from 1987 and it has attracted several eyeballs.

J Form shared by IFS Parveen Kaswan. (Twitter/@ParveenKaswan)
Published on Jan 03, 2023 12:56 PM IST
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