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According to the agriculture ministry's data, wheat arrivals are the highest since 2010 when the amount was 4.38 MT

Traders have attributed this spike to higher exports, rising transportation and storage costs, and a widening gap between demand and supply

A high powered panel has found instances of manual data being fed into the system after the auction has ended

What's on offer: Separate agricultural budgets, free water, stepped up direct transfers and a lot more

The sector did not get anticipated attention in Budget

Farmers' intransigence, invasion of Delhi are unacceptable

A free market-based system does not reflect the diversity of the Indian agro-economy or the interests of small farmers

Unions stuck to their main demand of a complete repeal of the three Acts

There are no provisions for effective monitoring and support for farmers to sell outside the APMC

Apex court offers a face-saver

Govt cannot accept extreme demands of farmers

The following chart shows the average retail food and beverages inflation of Punjab and Haryana as compared with Bihar, where APMCs where made redundant few years back

Power supply to towers that relay telecom signals was snapped and cables cut in several parts of the state as farmers vented their anger on the infrastructure owned by Mukesh Ambani's firm Jio

A new study on agricultural markets that goes deeper into the realities of farm marketing in India offers timely insights

Sanjeeb Mukherjee looks at how the Odisha model of decentralised procurement has a few key advantages, but certain challenges, too

Farmer groups are taking too rigid a position

Solution to farmers' agitation is reform of livelihood support

For companies like Cargill, the legal framework brings stability, creating an environment for infrastructure investment

The new central laws bypass the existing Agriculture Produce Market Committees (APMCs) or mandis regulated by state laws

Numbers show why Punjab and Haryana farmers are leading the protests, and why the rest of India is largely silent; experts and farm leaders say success of the laws rests heavily on implementation