-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Consumer price inflation (CPI), or retail inflation as it is better known, for the month of November stood at 4.88 per cent with comparison to 3.63 per cent during the corresponding period last year. The government data revealed on Tuesday shows that the inflation rate has surged to 15-month high. The previous high was recorded at 5.05 per cent in August last year. November's inflation numbers...
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Wheat sowing lower by 6% from last year, shows agriculture ministry's data -Sayantan Bera
-Livemint.com Wheat sowing is lagging behind last year’s numbers despite a hike in support prices and doubling of import duties to encourage domestic growers New Delhi: Area planted under wheat, the main winter crop, is 6% lower than the year before, showed data on progress of Rabi sowing released by the agriculture ministry on Friday. According to the ministry, wheat has so far been planted in 19 million hectares, compared to the 20.4...
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More »Ramesh Chand, NITI Aayog member and agricultural economist, interviewed by Sayantan Bera (Livemint.com)
-Livemint.com Farm economist and NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand on the urgency of agricultural market reforms to meet the target of doubling farm incomes by 2022 New Delhi: Apart from staging protests in Delhi, farmers must make themselves heard in state capitals as well to resolve issues outside the central government’s control, farm economist and NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand said. In an interview, he spoke of the urgency of agricultural market...
More »A way to manage falling prices of pulses -C Rangarajan & Shashanka Bhide
-The Hindu Business Line Procurement of the excess output vis-a-vis a normal year, rather than open-ended purchase, is a viable option A bountiful harvest that implies an increase in output may not always increase the nominal income of the farming sector, which is subject to the behaviour of input and more particularly output prices, which may sometimes move sharply. There can, therefore, be years in which there is a sudden and sharp...
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