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Centre says will procure paddy, cotton worth Rs 175,000 crore in 2020-21

Minimum support price mechanism will remain, says agriculture secretary as farmer group reportedly rejects plea for meeting.

Weighing the pros and cons of the call for making MSP a legal right

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

Congress-ruled states to introduce Bill in Assemblies to nullify agri laws

The draft bill is likely to help the party-ruled states negate the new farm laws and ensure that no farmer gets less than the minimum support price (MSP) for their produce

Rahul vows to scrap farm laws if elected, alleges govt of ruining farmers

"Their target is to end the MSP and food procurement system. They know the day that happens, farmers of Punjab and Haryana will be finished," he said

Reforms to mitigate Covid-19 impact will ensure long-term growth: FinMin

The implementation of 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' package and unlocking of the economy have ensured that economic recovery in India has gained momentum

Delhi BJP to hold tractor pujas rallies to counter Oppn attack on farm laws

The BJP had accused the Congress of trying to vitiate the atmosphere and defame farmers by torching the tractor

Javadekar tells Goan farmers not to fall prey to politics over farm Bills

Union Minister Prakash Javdekar on Saturday urged Goan farmers not to fall prey to the politics over the newly enacted agricultural laws, saying the Congress ha always deprived farmers of their rights

Gandhi would have been 'very happy' with new farm Bill: Jitendra Singh

Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Friday said Mahatma Gandhi would have been "very happy" today with the passage of the farm reform Bills, as the welfare of farmers was close to his heart. Addressing a programme on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, the minister said the Centre is committed to ensuring the welfare of farmers and the decision regarding the farm bills has been well received at the grassroot level. The three Bills recently passed by Parliament are the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill 2020. Singh said the "welfare of farmers was very close to Mahatma Gandhi's heart, and he would have been very happy today with the clearing of the farmers' Bills", according to a release issued by the organisers of the programme. The Union Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office and Personnel, Publi

Farm laws axe middlemen, allow farmers to sell to pvt firms: Jitendra Singh

Terming the new farm laws historic, Union minister Jitendra Singh on Wednesday said that farmers have been liberated from the shackles of middlemen and can now sell their produce to private traders as well. Interacting with sarpanches, Block Development Council (BDC) chairmen and local activists of the peripheral hill districts of Doda, Reasi, Ramban and Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir on the new agricultural laws, he said that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) and APMC (Agricultural Produce & Livestock Market Committee) will continue and will never be removed at any cost. Hailing the move to eliminate middlemen through the new laws, the minister said that it was this class which was eating the income of the farmers and coming in the way of their progress, according to an official statement. Singh, the minister of state for personnel, said that after 70 years of independence, the farmers were liberated from the shackles of middlemen and now the farmers can choose where to sell and ...

The new farm bills and the widening of the rift between Centre and states

Ties between the Union and the states, which were already strained over GST compensation and proposed amendments to MMDRA, could become much worse with the advent of these farm bills

India's top agri-technology companies welcome government's Farm Bills

The bills are aimed at helping smallholder farmers get a better price for their produce and invest in technology to improve their farm productivity

Punjab farmers continue 'rail roko' agitation; Haryana Cong's over month-long stir from Sep 28

Farmers in Punjab continued their rail roko agitation at several places on Saturday as the Congress in Haryana announced over a month-long agitation against the Centre's farm-related Bills from September 28.

Fixing farm income is not so simple; govt must take the hard path

The debate must go beyond the binaries spun out by politicians who either condemn the new farm Bills or consider them the agricultural equivalent of the 1991 de-licensing of industry, writes T N Ninan

Will incomes improve? Agri Bills see mixed response from farmers

Thousands of farmers protest against the Bills in Punjab and Haryana

Punjab follows in Rajasthan's footsteps to blunt Centre's mandi Bills

While the move might lead to further confrontation, experts say states are well within their rights in notifying mandis

Nitish hails new farm laws, says it won't have adverse impact on mandis

Farmers used to face a lot of problems earlier as they were not able to sell their produce anywhere in the country due to the Act, Kumar said

Kanpur farmers welcome agri bills, urge Centre to cut middlemen's role

Farmers in Kanpur welcomed the new legislation and urged the government to think more of their community

Reformist farm laws that dent status quo have strong basis in data

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

Agriculture Bills are anti-farmers, says Puducherry CM Narayanasamy

Senior Congress leader and Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy flayed the Centre over the Agriculture Bills on Saturday

Farm bills are sugar-coated pills, should be voted against in Rajya Sabha: KCR

Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday termed the Agriculture reform Bills as "sugar-coated pill," saying that it will do a lot of injustice to the farm sector in the country