MSP For Crops

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait on Friday accused the Centre of misleading people over the minimum support price for crops and said the stir for it will continue. Tikait said this while addressing the farmers who are protesting for the past 65 days against the acquisition of 1,810 acres by the government. Tikait said the government must pass a bill in Parliament, ensuring MSP for crops. He also alleged that the government is not ready to talk on farmers' issues. "Some traitors are roaming in the name of farmer leaders who speak the language of the government. The government is cheating the farmers but the farmers' fight will not end. Farmers will not bow down to the arbitrariness of the government," he said.

Neither there is a wheat crisis in the country, nor an adverse impact of export ban of the commodity on farmers' income, agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar informed Parliament on Friday. Domestic wheat prices are ruling above Minimum Support Price (MSP) even after the export ban, he said. Tomar, in his written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, said the country's wheat production is pegged at 106.41 million tonnes in 2021-22 according to the government's third advance estimate. The government's third wheat estimate is slightly lower than previous year, but the minister said it is above the average annual wheat production of 103.89 million tonnes achieved during the last five years since 2016-17. In 2020-21, the country's wheat production stood at 109.59 million tonnes. According to the minister, "There is no wheat crisis in the country, as India produces wheat more than its domestic requirement." In order to manage the overall food security of the country and to suppo

If the very low extent of procurement under the MSP is any indication, the very scheme is inefficient, given the low intake and massive price differences between the support and market prices

The support price of 'A' grade variety of paddy has been hiked to Rs 2,060 per quintal from Rs 1,960.

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BKU leader Rakesh Tikait on Sunday said the dialogue would resume where it had ended on January 22 and the demands remain unchanged

States will be forced to pay attention to farmer needs

Making purchases below the minimm support price unlawful might at best help a limited set of farmers, but it could also end up hurting a large section of the population

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The Centre should bring an ordinance making a provision that crop purchase of farmers made outside the 'mandi' system will be at MSP or above, former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Tuesday.

In an official statement, the minister went on to assert that he himself was present when increase in minimum support price was announced, hence there was no question of him standing for MSP reduction

Adityanath govt has been planning a Global Investors Summit in Lucknow by 2021-end to position the state as an ideal international investment destination across sectors

Besides, he appealed to them to reduce the consumption of urea by at least half by 2022