-The Financial Express As onion prices surge on the removal of curbs on minimum export price (MEP), Lasalgaon Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) – the largest WHOlesale market for onions in Asia – is all set to be part of the World Bank-implemented Maharashtra Agricultural Competitiveness Project (MACP). The APMC will receive funds to the tune of Rs 1 crore as part of the project to bring the entire auction process...
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Uttar Pradesh's Hot Potato: Another Farm Crisis Ignored -Kabir Agarwal
-TheWire.in Despite knowing the problem, both the state and central governments have failed to address the crisis that UP’s potato farmers are facing. Devi Singh (46) grows potatoes in the rabi season in Saras, a village of 1,200 people in Mathura, part of Uttar Pradesh’s potato belt. In 2017, he suffered massive losses as the price of potatoes in the WHOlesale market fell well below the cost of production. Last Thursday, he...
More »Is the government marketing millets right? -Ranjit K Sahu, Ravi Shankar Behera, Bidyut Mohanty & Sibabrata Choudhury
-Down to Earth India requires policy changes to make millets an effective tool against malnutrition Nutrient-rich millets, which have been a crucial part of human diet since ancient times, have lost their importance due to globally commercialised agronomic practices to produce more foodgrains. Though awareness has been growing among the public in the recent years about the health benefits of a millet-based diet—high fibre, low carbohydrate, protein-rich and gluten-free—gaps persist on several...
More »Don't have records of Vijay Mallya's loans: Finance ministry to CIC
-PTI Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, during a debate on demonetisation in the Upper House on November 17, 2016, had termed the loan issue of Vijay Mallya a "terrible legacy" that the NDA government had inherited from the previous UPA regime. The finance ministry has told the Central Information Commission (CIC) that it does not have information about the loans given to industrialist Vijay Mallya, prompting the transparency panel to remark that the...
More »Fabindia sued for Rs 525 crore by Khadi commission for using the 'khadi' tag 'illegally'
-PTI The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has sent a legal notice to Fabindia, a chain of ethnic wear retail outlets, demanding a WHOpping Rs 525 crore in damages for 'illegally' using its trademark 'charkha' and selling apparels with the 'khadi' tag. The KVIC, according to the legal notice, has also threatened to launch legal proceedings against Fabindia Overseas Pvt. Ltd. if it does not desist from displaying the trademark...
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