-Livemint.com * Amid soaring cooking Oil prices, India has a new plan to grow Oil palm locally. Is the solution worse than the problem? * India plans to add about 2.5 million tonnes of home grown crude palm Oil by 2030. Its ₹11,000-cr national mission on Oil palm focuses on north-east and Andaman and Nicobar Islands M V. Ramoji Rao is a seasoned dentist and a busy one too. It’s not easy to...
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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 »Price rise is driving Delhi’s food vendors to financial collapse – and their customers to hunger -Vijayta Lalwani
-Scroll.in Shooting Oil prices have made food more expensive. And daily wagers who struggle to find work have less money to spare. It was past 3 pm on Thursday when Manikchand Lohar ate his first meal – two parathas with a side of vegetables bought from a stall in Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar. The 50-year-old rickshaw puller had started work at 9 am, but he had barely made enough to pay Rs 30...
More »Retail edible Oil prices to start softening from Dec: Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey
-PTI/ BusinessToday.in Retail prices of edible Oils in India, which imports 60 per cent of its requirement, have shot up to 64 per cent in the past just one year, in line with the global developments Retail edible Oil prices in the country will start softening from December with arrival of new crops and a possible decline in global rates, Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said on Friday. Retail prices of edible Oils...
More »Oil palm plan for northeast, Andamans a recipe for disaster, say activists -Priscilla Jebaraj
-The Hindu Environmental experts and politicians raise concern over Centre’s proposal. Given the widespread destruction of rainforests and native biodiversity caused by Oil palm plantations in Southeast Asia, environmental experts and politicians are warning that the Centre’s move to promote their cultivation in India’s northeastern States and in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands could be disastrous. Other concerns include the impact on community ownership of tribal lands, as well as the fact that...
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