-Siasat.com Despite petitions being submitted to officials including the Adilabad district collector as well as select MLAs, there has been no concrete response from the government. Hyderabad: Jowar farmers of Adilabad district in Telangana on Monday blocked main roads to protest against the state government’s refusal to procure jowar (sorghum). The Jowar farmers in the district have time and again claimed that the Telangana government over the last four years has been unwilling...

-The Hindu Business Line The Ukraine war is not the sole driver of global wheat PRIces. Speculative activity has played a bigger role and policy inaction on that front can prove fatal The global food crisis has now grown to such proportions that everyone is talking about it (even though world leaders are doing relatively little about it). It has become an article of faith to blame the war in Ukraine for...

-Livemint.com Following the export ban, India has received requests from Indonesia, Oman, UAE, Bangladesh and Yemen The government has received requests for wheat supplies from at least five countries including Indonesia, one of the world’s largest importers of the grain, and Bangladesh after India banned wheat exports last month, a government official said. While banning wheat exports amid spiralling global PRIces on 13 May, India kept open the option of government-to-government (G2G) supplies...

-The Hindu Business Line MSP signalling in favour of oilseeds, pulses should be backed up by credible procurement steps In announcing the minimum support PRIces for the kharif season, the Centre has rightly stuck to its plan of trying to wean away acreage from rice, particularly in rainfed areas, to pulses and oilseeds. This has been its policy since 2015, and it has resulted in output gains and increased acreage in pulses,...

-ThePRInt.in The govt Wednesday raised support PRIces for 14 crops by 6 per cent, on an average — the highest in four years. New Delhi: India’s latest PRIce support policy for farmers places more emphasis on keeping consumer inflation in check than reflecting the new normal of rising cultivation costs and soaring food PRIces following the Ukraine war, a reading of the numbers show. The Narendra Modi government Wednesday announced minimum support PRIces...