-IPS News TIKAMGARH: Eighty-year-old Chenabai Kushwaha sits on a charpoy under a neem tree in the village of Chitawar, located in the Tikamgarh district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, staring intently at a dictaphone. “Please sing a song for us,” urges the woman holding the voice recorder. Kushwaha obliges with a melancholy tune about an eight-year-old girl begging her father not to give her away in marriage. The melody melts...
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Centre hikes minimum support price for pulses and paddy
-Hindustan Times The Centre on Wednesday hiked the minimum support price for pulses by up to Rs 275 a quintal for the year and also approved an increase of Rs 50 in MSP for paddy. The MSP for paddy will now be Rs 1,410 per quintal. Hikes in MSP are known to help farmers, which in turn can incentivise them and boost their overall agricultural output. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA)...
More »More dal, less bhaat -Ashok Gulati and Shweta Saini
-The Indian Express Government should devise a crop-neutral incentive structure to attract farmers to pulses over paddy. Policymakers and consumers can rejoice in the light of the latest price data. Food inflation in particular has witnessed significant moderation. In May 2015, food prices were up by only 2.3 per cent at wholesale and 5 per cent at retail levels over May last year. The increases in minimum support prices for the...
More »Farmers sowing crops that offer high market prices like pulses, groundnut, chillies, onions -Jayashree Bhosale, Madhvi Sally & Sutanuka Ghosal
-The Economic Times PUNE | NEW DELHI | KOLKATA: Despite the forecast of a deficient monsoon, coupled with its poor start, farmers are trying to maximise their returns. Choosing the crops that have high market prices is their strategy, shows the meager sowing taken place so far in the regions that have received monsoon and pre-monsoon showers. Crops like pulses, groundnut, chillies, onions, whose market rates have been ruling high, are...
More »Hike in kharif support price on Cabinet agenda -Sanjeeb Mukherjee
-Business Standard Govt takes stock of pulses situation in wake of weak rains The Cabinet might discuss increasing the minimum support price (MSP) of kharif crop for the 2015-16 season at a meeting expected to be held on Wednesday. Officials said the Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices (CACP) had recommended Rs 50 a quintal increase in paddy MSP for the 2015-16 season and the agriculture ministry favoured this. But a higher increase of...
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