1. About 90 per cent of around 1,000 cashew processing units in Kerala have been shut as their owners resorted to a three-day token strike from Monday to protest against an “unscientific 35% wage hike”.
2. Punjab will setup an organic farming board will be set up in his State to aid and promote chemical-free agricultural practices in the State.
3. A bumper crop, coupled with weak demand from other States, has led to a free-fall in potatoes prices in West Bengal, which also exports 40% of total production to other states.
4. Unseasonal rains turn prospects sour for grape growers.
5. Retail prices of leafy vegetables like spinach and other winter staples like carrot, cauliflower and peas have shot up as much as 67 per cent in the national capital over the last five days due to unseasonal rains.
6. India's oilmeal exports in February fell 41 per cent from a year ago to 181,996 tonnes according to Solvent Extractor's Association of India.
7. Standing crops in over 50 lakh hectares in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh have been damaged by the recent unseasonal rains.
2. Punjab will setup an organic farming board will be set up in his State to aid and promote chemical-free agricultural practices in the State.
3. A bumper crop, coupled with weak demand from other States, has led to a free-fall in potatoes prices in West Bengal, which also exports 40% of total production to other states.
4. Unseasonal rains turn prospects sour for grape growers.
5. Retail prices of leafy vegetables like spinach and other winter staples like carrot, cauliflower and peas have shot up as much as 67 per cent in the national capital over the last five days due to unseasonal rains.
6. India's oilmeal exports in February fell 41 per cent from a year ago to 181,996 tonnes according to Solvent Extractor's Association of India.
7. Standing crops in over 50 lakh hectares in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh have been damaged by the recent unseasonal rains.
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