Punjab Rice Millers urge Finance Commission to promote water-efficient basmati rice cultivation for sustainable agriculture and exports.

It is likely to affect Punjab, the highest producer of Basmati rice in the country, with a total of 40 per cent production followed by Haryana and other states.

Indian rice exporters have been receiving requests from buyers to advance shipments of basmati rice after New Delhi banned exports of non-basmati white rice to dampen local prices, industry ...

After Punjab, Haryana may ban harmful pesticides, help Indian Basmati rice clear strict overseas standards A range of hazardous pesticides face a 90-day ban in the upcoming paddy growing season.

Basmati farmers in Punjab happy despite lower prices, shift expected from non-Basmati, export promotion body discontinues crop survey.

Punjab, one of India’s top basmati rice growers, received 24% deficit rain at 275.6 mm in three months of the four-month (June-September) monsoon season and Bihar that grows non-basmati rice ...

India has prohibited the export of non-basmati white rice with immediate effect, according to a government notice on Thursday, after a late start to seasonal monsoon rains hurt the crop and raised ...

To promote organic farming in the state, Punjab Government has undertaken a pilot project under which residue-free basmati has been cultivated in Chogawan block of Amritsar district. Residue-free ...

The Punjab Rice Millers and Exporters Association reported that tests conducted by them previously had shown these pesticides at levels that were much above the MRL values for basmati.