India’s central government’s National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED) is planning to buy 20 lakh tonne of mustard and 15-20 lakh tonne of pulses in the ongoing rabi (winter-sown) harvesting season at the minimum support price (MSP). NAFED will buy pulses and oilseeds on behalf of the government to provide MSP to farmers. The co-operative […]
National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED), the apex organisation of marketing cooperatives for agricultural produce in India, plans to set up 100 bio-CNG manufacturing facilities, with an estimated investment of Rs 5,000 crore, across the country, under the public-private partnership model. NAFED has also entered into an agreement with Indian Oil Corporation […]
Food Corporation of India (FCI) and National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED), which have a target to procure 33 lakh tonnes of oilseeds and pulses under the Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan (PM-AASHA) in the 2018-19 marketing season ending March, have only been able to procure 3.75 lakh tonnes so far. […]
India’s National Agriculture Co-operative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED), which procured onions from Lasalgaon in Maharashtra and other wholesale markets in the state over the past four months, is now set to dispose nearly 13,000 tonnes of the buffer stock from its various storage facilities across Nashik district, top officials said. The central government had […]
The Indian government has increased the procurement limit for chana and masur on minimum support price (MSP), allowing agencies to buy 15.77 lakh tonnes of chana and 271,600 tonnes of masur during ongoing rabi season. The process of procurement will continue till June 9, with government purchase helping in limiting the losses. NAFED has procured […]
The Odisha government has directed state-run agencies Markfed and Nafed to complete the procurement of pulses and oil seeds by July 4 and to ensure that procurement is made from genuine farmers at the designated centres. The eastern state has set a target to procure 12,520 tonnes of green gram (moong), 4,900 tonnes of black […]
The Indian cabinet has approved the regularisation and extension of government guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) of agriculture commodities. The extension has been provided to lender bank for providing credit limit to National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) up to Rs. 19,000 crore from earlier Rs.9,500 crore for undertaking procurement operation of […]
The government of India has directed the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED) to procure an additional 1 lakh tonnes of the groundnut from Gujarat at the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs 4,500 per quintal. NAFED has already procured around 8 lakh tonnes of groundnut in the ongoing season. Initially, the […]
The woes of groundnut farmers in Gujarat are likely to worsen after the National Agriculture Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED) has decided to stop procurement of groundnut at minimum support price (MSP) once it procures eight lakh tonnes, the limit set by the central government. NAFED, which is the designated agency to procure groundnut at MSP, […]
The National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) has procured a record 6.57 lakh tonnes of groundnut so far from Gujarat in the current kharif marketing season. Of the 6.57 lakh tonnes procured from Gujarat, around 5 lakh tonnes has been from 11 districts of Saurashtra, the state’s groundnut bowl. Saurashtra farmers also constitute […]