![]() | Budget 2023: No funds, horticulture sector left in lurchNon-allocation of Price Stabilisation Fund (PSF) has steeply decreased the Department of Consumer Affairs budget by 85%. |
![]() | ‘Katni-chhatni’ and MSP cut all pervasive in SundargarhPaddy procurement began from December 15 with an initial target of 22.31 lakh quintal through 134 paddy procurement centres (PPCs). |
![]() | Farmers lay siege to toll plazas in Punjab over debt waiverThe reason: to press the state to accept their various demands, including a farm debt waiver, remunerative prices for crops and compensation for damage to crops. |
![]() | Chhattisgarh: Abujhmad farmers sell paddy at MSP for first timeThe survey of the land was not carried out since independence owing to which the tribal inhabitants were not just deprived of government welfare schemes but faced many problems. |
![]() | CM Jagan Mohan Reddy asks officials to buy paddy even if it’s damagedHe also asked Baptala, Krishna and Konaseema district collectors to take special care of paddy procurement and access damages in their districts. |
![]() | TS faces financial crisis as BRS govt misutilising funds: TPCC treasurerSudharshan Reddy visited the historical Lanka Rama Lingeswara Swami temple in Sirikonda mandal and conducted special poojas. |
![]() | Instead of speaking on reunification, focus on ryot suicides: Naidu to YSRCThe anti-farmer policies being pursued by the YSRC government was pushing small and marginal ryots into a deep debt trap. |
![]() | Farmers stage protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, demand legal guarantee for MSPSenior Congress leader Randeep Surjewala criticised the Modi government for failing to fulfil the promises it has made to the farmers last year. |
![]() | ‘Chalo Raj Bhavan’ by ryots seeking guaranteed MSPTelangana State Rythu Sangham activist Pasya Padma demanded that the government enforce the Farmers’ Loan Waiver Act liberating farmers, and scrap the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2022. |
![]() | Farmers say ‘govt hasn’t kept its word’, to begin stirThe group has also urged rural voters in poll-bound Gujarat to question and punish the ruling BJP on the legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) issue in the upcoming assembly elections. |
![]() | Strict vigil on Odisha border to curtail paddy exportSources said, some unscrupulous persons purchase the paddy grown by small farmers of Kundra, Borigumma and Kotpad and export it to the neighbouring states at a much lesser price. |
![]() | Lure of high MSP: Traders sneak paddy into ChhattisgarhChhattisgarh police intensifies patrolling in Nabarangpur |
![]() | Minimum support price system is broken, the government should now fix itThere were 21 million farmers who benefitted from MSP in 2020-21. Whereas, as per the last Census, the total number of agricultural workers in the country was 263.1 million in 2011 itself! |
![]() | Headless Karnataka agricultural panel likely to increase farmers’ woesIn July this year, the state government scrapped posts of chairpersons of various commissions, including the Karnataka Agricultural Price Commission. |
![]() | Govt cheating farmers, MSP hike less than even inflation rate: CongressLeaders can say rhetoric, but statistics don't lie, said Randeep Surjewala while calling out the BJP for "fraud with farmers" |
![]() | Punjab farmers take their fight to Mann’s houseThe protesting farmers led by the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) Ekta-Ugrahan – the largest farmer union of the state – have taken turns to sit on a dharna on the Patiala-Bathinda highway. |
![]() | Govt hikes wheat MSP by Rs 110 to Rs 2,125 per quintal; mustard by Rs 400 to Rs 5,450 per quintalAccording to an official release, the CCEA has approved an increase in MSPs for six rabi crops for the 2022-23 crop year (July-June) and the 2023-24 marketing season. |
![]() | Karnataka High Court upholds discharge of IAS officers, others in illegal mining caseThe CBI said the accused were parties to a criminal conspiracy to commit offences of theft of iron ore, changing of boundaries, and criminal misconduct by abuse of their official positions. |
![]() | Telangana to ask Centre to lift entire crop of pulses at MSPThe Minister asked officials to make use of Rythu Vedikas and conduct meetings with farmers so that they could be informed about the right quantity of seeds to be sown, fertilisers and other inputs. |
![]() | Produce Aadhaar card if you want MSP: TN farmers toldFisheries, agri, social welfare depts too make Aadhaar must for many of their schemes |
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