-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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Why wheat PRIces have shot up despite India’s huge reserves -Vivek Kaul
-Livemint.com Central stocks haven’t been released while exports were upped to fill a Ukraine war-created vacuum One side effect of Russia attacking Ukraine has been a rise in global wheat PRIces. Wheat importers are struggling. I had written about this possibility in this space on 23 March (‘Like oil, soaring PRIces of wheat could have broad repercussions’). Towards the end, I had said that India was unlikely to be impacted PRImarily because...
More »What does high WPI inflation mean for interest rates? -Dinesh Unnikrishnan
-Moneycontrol.com The spike in WPI will put more pressure on the rate-setting body to initiate a tight policy stance On APRIl 18, the government data showed that India's inflation based on the Wholesale PRIce Index (WPI) rose to a four-month high of 14.55 percent in March from 13.11 percent in February. With this, the WPI inflation has now been in double-digit territory for 12 consecutive months. What is the significance of this data?...
More »Reach of development amenities poorer in Adivasi villages as compared to the non-Adivasi villages of same geography: Report
-NDTV.com The State of Adivasi Livelihoods Report 2021, released by a Delhi-based non-profit, revealed that tribal villages are dePRIved of public services that are available to non-Adivasi villages in the same region. Details here. The reach of 'development' amenities and facilities such as all-weather roads, telephones, educational institutions, health infrastructure, etc. are poorer in Adivasi villages as compared to the non-Adivasi villages of the same geography, noted the State of Adivasi Livelihoods...
More »Summer crops may be damaged this year due to temperature rise: Experts -Raju Sajwan
-Down to Earth States accuse the Centre of not taking any initiative to help them increase production of summer crops Agricultural experts have warned that an unusually hot March and APRIl this year may cause damage to summer crops, which are grown in the Indian subcontinent between ‘Rabi’ (winter) and ‘Kharif’ (monsoon) crops. States have also accused the Centre of not taking any initiative to help them increase production of summer crops...
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