-IndiaToday.in Rising International Prices of wheat and fuel are pushing wheat prices up at home. There is also a demand for India to export wheat India’s CPI (Consumer Price Index) inflation rose to a 17-month high of 6.95 per cent in March 2022, exceeding the Reserve Bank of India’s inflation target for three consecutive months. The prices of wheat and wheat products in the country have gone up by 15-20 per cent...
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Government set to raise subsidy on fertilizers to cool prices for farmers -Gireesh Chandra Prasad
-Livemint.com Fertilizer department said in the presentation that International Prices of fertilizers and raw materials have been constantly rising since January 2021 NEW DELHI: The central government is set to raise the subsidy on fertilizers for the kharif crop season to cool prices to farmers, the department of fertilizers said in a presentation on Tuesday even as worries of protracted disruptions in key commodities continued to rattle global commodity and financial markets....
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-The Telegraph The BJP’s nationalism would have been credible if it had a humane, inclusive face The prime minister has assured his legion of admirers that India’s stature is rising in the global order. The countrymen, however, can spot only one thing that is on an unprecedented rise: the price of essential commodities. On Tuesday, the price of diesel scored a century in Bengal, much like petrol that is already burning a...
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-The Hindu Business Line Some manufacturers have hiked prices, others await clarity on the situation New Delhi: The fertiliser industry is not hopeful of an increase in subsidies from last year’s level for non-urea crop nutrients despite global prices shooting up sharply. Several companies have increased the maximum retail price (MRP) of fertilisers, while some others are waiting for clarity. The recent farmers’ movement and the farm leaders’ unsuccessful dabbling in electoral politics...
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-TheWire.in (with PTI inputs) Anil Ghanwant, one of the three members of the committee, made the report public on Monday. Mumbai: Barely four months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the repeal of the three farm laws which fanned protests across numerous sites in India, and only a few days after the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly results, the report of the Supreme Court-appointed committee on farm laws has been released in the...
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