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Deepak Fertilisers shares climb 9%

Date：Mar. 31, 2020 Category：Companies

Deepak Fertilisers & Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd. (DFPCL)

The company is the only Indian manufacturer of specialty chemical IPA (isopropyl alcohol), a key ingredient for sanitisers. It may benefit from rising demand fo...

Rallis India shares down 2% in early session

Date：Mar. 26, 2020 Category：Companies

Rallis India Limited

Shares of Rallis India traded 2 per cent down in Wednesday 's trade at 10:29 am. The company has shut its manufacturing operations at some plants due to the ...

Japan’s Kubota to acquire 10% stake in Escorts for Rs 1,042 crore

Date：Mar. 23, 2020 Category：Companies

Engineering conglomerate EscortsNSE 17.70 % last Friday said Japan’s Kubota Corporation will acquire 10% equity stake engineering in the firm for Rs 1042 crore...

Phillip Capital retains buy on UPL

Date：Mar. 13, 2020 Category：Companies

UPL Limited

The brokerage continues to maintain its optimistic stance after meeting the management, driven by visibly better growth across the regions, multiple synergy ben...

IMD predicts unseasonal rain and hailstorms in North India

Date：Mar. 5, 2020 Category：Markets

Farmers in northern India should prepare for crop damage because of unseasonal rain and hailstorms, India’s official weather forecaster said on Tuesday, bringi...

Pesticide law(PMB 2020) must be comprehensive

Date：Feb. 25, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

The Pesticide Management Bill, 2020, is a long overdue law on this critical segment of agriculture, in the making since 2008, to replace the obsolete Insecticid...

Time to Get Aggro on Agri R&D

Date：Feb. 21, 2020 Category：Markets

Emphasising the path of science-led growth, Indian agriculture has undergone a tremendous change from subsistence to full-fledged commercial activity. Today, fo...

Rice exporters in India seek European pesticides norms

Date：Feb. 19, 2020 Category：Markets

Rice exporters in India have sought a ban on pesticides that are not registered in foreign markets, a bid to shore up exports to Europe and the United States. ...

How IFFCO plays Flipkart, Amazon to farmers

Date：Feb. 18, 2020 Category：Companies

With five manufacturing units having an annual production capacity of 1.4 crore metric tons of fertiliser, 4,800 employees, and 36,000 cooperative members, the ...

A raft of agritech startups are set to change the face of Indian agriculture

Date：Dec. 24, 2019 Category：Markets

Imagine a farmer being able to keep track of livestock remotely, using a mobile phone, or being able to check soil quality before sowing or getting timely weath...

Indian rice exporters seek ban on pesticides unregistered in the US, EU

Date：Dec. 23, 2019 Category：Markets

Rice exporters in India, largest producer of premium rice, have sought a ban on pesticides that are not registered in foreign markets in a bid to shore up expor...

Cold weather in North India to boost rabi crop yields

Date：Dec. 20, 2019 Category：Markets

Cold weather in northern India will boost yields of winter-sown or rabi grains, oilseeds and pulses, increasing the country’s food output to a new high, althou...

US-based KBR to supply critical equipment for HURL’s 2,200 MTPD plant

Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Companies

US-based engineering firm KBR announced recently that it has been awarded two contracts by Toyo Engineering Corporation for the supply of an operator training s...

Indigram Labs signs MoU with a leading agri-business incubator in Africa

Date：Nov. 25, 2019 Category：Companies

Indigram Labs Foundation (ILF), a technology business incubator and accelerator has signed MOU with Excel Hort Consult Agribusiness Incubator (EHCAI), Uganda du...

Bayer CropScience Q2 profit rises slightly to Rs 170 crore

Date：Nov. 14, 2019 Category：Companies

Bayer CropScience India

Bayer CropScience on Tuesday reported a marginal increase in consolidated net profit at Rs 169.8 crore for the second quarter of this fiscal.

APEDA eyes $60 billion agriculture exports with support of new policy

Date：Nov. 12, 2019 Category：Markets

With the support of new agriculture export policy which has helped in bridging the gap between Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Agriculture the agri exports...

IFFCO launches nano-tech based fertilisers for on-field trials

Date：Nov. 4, 2019 Category：Products

Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO)

Fertiliser major IFFCO on Sunday introduced its 'nano-technology' based products - nano nitrogen, nano zinc and nano copper for on- field trials as part of its ...

How incubators are disrupting the Indian agri-tech startup landscape

Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Markets

Technology has changed the way that businesses behave today. The Indian economy is home to over 56,000 startups with about 450 plus in the agri-tech space alone...

We want up to 10% of Syngenta revenue to come from India: CEO J Erik Fyrwald

Date：Oct. 4, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Syngenta Crop Protection AG

Fyrwald, who was at Eluru to inaugurate a facility for product testing and development, said India is a critical market for Syngenta.

Modi govt receptive to agri-economists views unlike previous regimes: Niti Aayog member

Date：Sep. 27, 2019 Category：Markets

Niti Aayog Member Ramesh Chand on Thursday said the Narendra Modi government is more receptive to agri-economists' recommendations on the farm sector unlike the...

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