-The Hindu Business Line Scale Rs. 2,300/Quintal; reports of traders hoarding the bulbs Bengaluru/ Mumbai: Onion prices at Lasalgaon, the country’s largest wholesale market for the vegetable, surged on Thursday to touch a high of Rs. 2,300 per Quintal on tight supplies. The modal prices have almost doubled over the past two days and more than quadrupled since early July, when prices hovered around Rs. 500. Prices across the country are expected to...
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Are farmer movements in India changing course? -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Unlike the dhoti-clad, topi-wearing Quintessential ‘kisan’, the new Indian farmer is vocal and tech-savvy New Delhi: In the winter of 1988 when the feisty farmer leader from Uttar Pradesh, Mahendra Singh Tikait, laid siege to Delhi with thousands of cultivators and their cattle literally creating a mess of the boat club lawns, agriculture’s share in India’s gross domestic product (GDP) was about 30%. About three decades later, the farm sector’s share in...
More »Wholesale onion price surges 118% in two weeks -Tushar Pawar
-The Times of India NASHIK: The average wholesale price of onions has surged 118% over the past two weeks in Maharashtra, from Rs 571 per Quintal on July 13 to Rs 1,250 on Thursday, an 18-month high. To stabilise the steady rise in the price of the kitchen staple, the Centre may increase its minimum export price (MEP). The Centre had withdrawn the $700/tonne MEP in December 2015 after a crash in wholesale...
More »Safflower cultivation sees drastic fall despite benefits -Hiren Kumar Bose
-VillageSquare.in Despite its many health advantages, the cultivation of safflower for its oil is declining across India because farmers are not finding a ready market and are discouraged by the low prices it fetches Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka: Vijay Jagtap discontinued sowing safflower (kardi) last year on his one-hectare plot in Baramati Pandhare village, 12 km from Baramati town in Maharashtra. “The price we get for kardi is not at all attractive....
More »Economics, not religion, drives ownership of cattle in India -Roshan Kishore and Ishan Anand
-Livemint.com For same wealth levels, chances of owning cattle are more or less the same for Hindus and Muslims Given the increasing incidents of violence under the garb of cow protection in the country—these are driven largely by the belief that Muslims engage with the cattle economy mostly for meat (as butchers, commission agents or beef eaters)—it makes sense to view the cattle economy in the country through the prism of religion. An...
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