-Hindustan Times Food price index leapt 7.75% in June on the back of a global spiral in commodity prices, slightly lower than 7.97% in May India’s retail inflation marginally eased for the second month in a row to 7.01% in June from a year ago, official data on Tuesday showed, but consumer prices, which rose 7.04% in May, continued to breach the Reserve Bank of India’s upper limit of 6% for the...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Why oilseeds production in India has remained stagnant
-The Hindu Business Line Stagnation in the area under cultivation and marginal growth in yields have capped domestic output growth, says a report Mangaluru: Even while the import-dependent Edible oils market in India has been affected by geopolitical factors, the domestic production of oilseeds remains below the global average. The compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of oilseeds production in India has remained at 1.94 per cent between 2011-12 and 2020-21, as against global...
More »RSS farmer body Bharatiya Kisan Sangh slams Centre’s farm policies -Ishita Mishra
-The Hindu Exim policy for agricultural produce should be long-term and in farmers’ interests, BKS says Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh’s (RSS) farmers’ group, criticised the Centre’s export and import policies. The BKS urged the government to frame long-term export and import policies that are in the interests of farmers. The BKS, which held a meeting of its all India managing committee in Raipur last week, said it’s being seen...
More »Mandi prices of most items above new minimum support prices, only pulses cheaper -Sandip Das
-Financial Express “Soyabean has been selling much above MSP, however, increase in MSP provides positive signals to farmers,” D K Pathak, executive director, Soyabean Processors Association of India, told FE. Mandi prices of several agricultural commodities for which the government had announced a 5-9% increase in minimum support prices (MSPs) for the 2022-23 season are currently ruling above the MSP. Only the prices of pulses are mostly ruling below the benchmark price. Mandi...
More »MSP Revision a Betrayal of Our Movement, Covers Only Inflation Impact, Say Farmer Leaders -Ravi Kaushal
-Newsclick.in If rise in input costs is compared with new MSP, then in real terms, MSP has been reduced for 11 out 14 Kharif crops, the leaders said. New Delhi: Terming it a “cruel joke” on farmers, farmer organisations on Thursday said that the increase in minimum support price (MSP) of 14 crops for Kharif season 2022-23 announced by the Centre merely covers the impact of inflated prices of inputs including seeds,...
More »