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March 31, 2023 06:35 PM IST While India continues to ban key agricultural futures contracts, labelling them as a villain in food inflation, Indonesia has been planning to encourage the domestic futures market to channelise local supplies and exports of Crude Palm Oil (CPO)
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March 13, 2023 02:01 PM IST In the first state budget rolled out by the Maharashtra government led by the Eknath Shinde-headed Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on March 9, the focus was on the welfare of farmers and development of the agriculture sector.
- January 19, 2023 03:07 PM IST
The government is likely to prefer indirect transfer of income which creates a multiplier effect on the economy to boost consumption
- December 23, 2022 10:51 PM IST
The approval is based on recommendations of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) and views of major coconut growing states.
- December 09, 2022 02:30 PM IST
The Congress’ unit for farmers also accused the BJP-led central government of not cooperating with farmers and reneging on its promises made to them following which, the year-long stir at Delhi borders was suspended.
- December 02, 2022 11:38 AM IST
PSS, which is under the Agriculture Ministry, is operationalised only when prices of agri-produce fall below the minimum support price (MSP). Cooperative Nafed is undertaking procurement on behalf of the central government.
- November 26, 2022 10:22 AM IST
The farmer leaders have alleged that the Union government had no intention of fulfilling their promises and that there was a need of a bigger agitation.
- October 18, 2022 01:11 PM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a union cabinet meeting today at his residence. The minimum support price of rice and other Rabi crops was on the agenda for the meet. Stay tuned for the measures announced at the briefing.
- October 18, 2022 01:12 PM IST
Minimum support price refers to state-set price at which government agencies procure select crops from farmers to shield them from typical price volatilities. About 23 crops are currently covered under MSP.
- September 18, 2022 08:35 PM IST
In the first meeting held on August 22 in the national capital, the committee -- headed by former Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agrawal -- had formed three internal subgroups to deliberate on the mandated topics.
- August 26, 2022 01:21 PM IST
The need of the hour is to bring people out of farming, which is largely a loss-making enterprise, said the veteran farm leader.
- August 22, 2022 07:20 PM IST
The panel has 26 members including the chairman, while three membership slots are kept aside for representatives of SKM.
- July 19, 2022 11:46 AM IST
The government on Monday formed a committee on Minimum Support Price (MSP), eight months after it promised to set up such a panel while withdrawing the three contentious farm laws.
- July 12, 2022 10:23 AM IST
As many as 60 farm bodies are scheduled to take part in the meeting of the umbrella organisation of various farmers' organisations.
- July 06, 2022 04:19 PM IST
Ramesh Chand, a member of the government think tank Niti Aayog, stated on Wednesday that the minimum support price for agricultural crops should continue as long as markets become competitive and efficient, but it should be provided by methods other than procurement.
- July 06, 2022 01:38 PM IST
Chand batted for deferred deficiency price payments (DPP) as an alternative to the existing procurement based MSP structure.
- June 13, 2022 07:03 AM IST
Speaking at a Jat community programme here, Malik said he will also join the movement once he completes his term as Meghalaya governor.
- June 10, 2022 05:39 PM IST
The rainfall during the current monsoon season is likely to be 103 percent of the long-period average, which would then mark the fourth consecutive year of India experiencing a normal monsoon season, according to the India Meteorological Department's second long-range forecast.
- June 08, 2022 06:57 PM IST
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- June 08, 2022 06:35 PM IST
The issue of 5G spectrum pricing was not taken up in the cabinet meeting today, Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur said.
- May 14, 2022 05:04 PM IST
This comes in the backdrop of wheat production estimated for 2022-23 now falling to 105 million tonnes, from the earlier 113.5 million tonnes estimated.
- May 12, 2022 05:30 PM IST
Government plans to push wheat exports, even as domestic prices reach decadal highs, raising retail prices of Atta as well.
- May 11, 2022 04:43 PM IST
The sudden fall in wheat yields due to the heatwave across North India, and continuing bulk purchases by traders eyeing exports, have led to government procurement slowing down. If the situation persists, restrictions could become inevitable soon, say officials.
- March 22, 2022 04:03 PM IST
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday approved the MSP for raw jute for the 2022-23 season.
- February 01, 2022 06:54 PM IST
While the Budget 2022 lined up steps that will increase the farmers’ income 'substantially', there was no clarity about the desired income level which would have proved that the incomes did actually double
