NEW DELHI: The war in Ukraine and disruption in global wheat supply have resulted in Egypt agreeing to source the grain from India to meet its domestic requirement. Egyptian authorities have put India as one of the origins for the commodity after officials from its Agriculture Quarantine and Pest Risk Analysis wing visited various processing…Continue Reading

Representative imageNEW DELHI: The Russia-Ukraine war has hit the country’s agriculture sector the hardest with fertiliser prices skyrocketing in the international market, a top government functionary said on Monday, adding this is likely to raise India’s fertiliser subsidy burden alone to upwards of Rs 2 lakh crore this fiscal, about Rs 1 lakh crore more…Continue Reading