The Central government hiked the minimum support prices (MSP) for buying six rabi crops, including wheat, by up to six per cent, in a bid to calm the agitating farmers and opposition parties against the Farm bills. The MSP of wheat has been hiked by Rs 50 to Rs 1,975 per quintal. The MSPs of […]
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) might be celebrating after finally pushing through key agriculture reforms in parliament, but farmer leaders have raised concerns, saying hat the government may have lost the trust of farmers by not responding to their most important demand. “We were asking for minimum support price (MSP) assurance for only 23 […]
As on 11 September, 2020, Indian sugar mills owe nearly Rs 13,000 crore to cane farmers for the crop procured during 2019-20 marketing season that started October last year, it was revealed in the Parliament. “Out of total cane dues payable of Rs 75,585 crore for sugar season 2019-20 as on September 11, 2020, about […]
A day after the Centre banned exports of onions to contain a spike in domestic prices, farmers in the largest onion cultivating state of Maharashtra, held agitations, calling the move “arbitrary”, seeking removal of the ban. Prices of onions at Lasalgaon, Nashik, the country’s biggest onion market in Maharashtra, have doubled to Rs 3,000 per quintal […]
Following a bumper groundnut crop projection after a record sowing of the oilseeds for kharif 2020-21, the Gujarat government announced to start operations for groundnut procurement at minimum support price from 19 November, 2020 onwards. The state estimates the output of oilseed crop at 54.6 lakh tonnes for Kharif season 2020 Jayesh Radadiya, Minister for […]
The authorities in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvannamalai district have recovered Rs. 2.25 crore from ineligible accounts of farmers who were registered under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana also known as PM-KISAN scheme. The Crime Branch-CID has arrested a woman heading a SHG (self-help group) in connection with the irregularities. She was presented before a local […]
Amid the economic damage from Covid-19, India has embarked on a series of reforms to rejuvenate its farms. But these measures now need to be backed up with policies to take them to the farmer’s doorstep. Under the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce Ordinance 2020, farmers will now be able to sell their produce anywhere in the […]
Management of surplus foodgrain in India has become a major challenge, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its annual report. “India has now reached a stage in which surplus management has become a major challenge… Going forward, shifting the terms of trade in favour of agriculture is the key to sustaining this dynamic […]
The Centre on Wednesday decided to increase the minimum price sugar mills pay to sugarcane growers by Rs 10 to Rs 285 per quintal for the next marketing year starting October 2020. A decision to increase the Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) of sugarcane for 2020-21 marketing year (October-September) was taken in the meeting of […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a Rs 1 lakh crore Agriculture Infrastructure Fund to support community farming and help farmers get a better price for their products right at their doorstep. The farm infrastructure fund is aimed at creating better storage that will reduce wastage as well as enable farmers to sell as […]
