-NDTV MSP Hike: The minimum support price (MSP) for mustard seed has also been raised by ₹ 400 to ₹ 5,050 per quintal for the current crop year New Delhi: The centre has raised the price it will pay to buy new-season wheat from Farmers by 2 per cent - the lowest in a decade - to ₹ 2,015 per 100 kg. The country is the world's second-biggest wheat consumer and sets...
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From locusts to cyclones: The human cost of interlinked disasters
-UN News Many extreme environmental events have a devastating effect on people’s lives, and a new UN report reveals that many of them are linked by the same underlying causes. On the day the study is released, we look at the impact of a locust swarm on a Kenyan Farmer, and the ways that Cyclone Amphan affected an Indian worker. The huge locust swarm which hit the Horn of Africa in the...
More »Amid protests, Centre hikes minimum support price for rabi crops -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu The Centre has increased the minimum support price (MSP) for wheat for the upcoming rabi season to ₹2,015 per quintal, a 2% hike from the ₹1,975 per quintal rate of last year. Oilseeds and pulses such as mustard, safflower and masoor dal saw higher MSP increases of up to 8% in a bid to encourage crop diversification, according to a statement on the decision of the Cabinet Committee on Economic...
More »Massive march in Karnal as talks with Farmers fail -Neeraj Mohan
-Hindustan Times Thousands of Farmers surrounded a key government building in Haryana chief minister’s bastion of Karnal on Tuesday evening, holding a massive show of strength and intensifying their protest over controversial police action on agitating cultivators last month Karnal/ Chandigarh: Farmers gathered at a mahapanchayat venue in Karnal, and later marched on foot to the mini secretariat building five kilometers away. They jumped over some barricades but didn’t face any serious...
More »Increase in MSP: Peanuts, say agricultural experts -Vivek Mishra
-Down to Earth Wheat and barley see the lowest increase in MSP announced by government; red lentils the highest The Farmers’ protests in Delhi and north India are in their tenth month, with the guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops as one of the main demands. Even as they rage on, the Union government September 8, 2021 approved to increase the MSP for rabi 2022-23. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs,...
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