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PDS sugar rate for select groups is also hiked from Rs 15 per kg to Rs 20.

Wholesale sugar prices seen increasing to Rs 34/kg this year

This will also bridge the gap between domestic prices and the cost of production, analysts felt.

15 April 2019 1:38 AM IST

Can farmers discontent be amended with two months left for the Lok Sabha elections?

Farm loans, MSP top priorities

Farmers also even allege that only around 45 per cent of claims have been disbursed by insurance companies.

19 May 2019 2:31 AM IST

India has signed contracts to export 200,000 bales of cotton to China in the past one week.

Cotton yarn exports decline 35 per cent in June quarter

According to the yarn producers, lower demand from both export markets and the domestic market has hit the industry.

2 Aug 2019 2:33 AM IST

Farmers leaders during a meeting with Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar (unseen) and Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal (unseen) over the new farm laws, at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, Wednesday, December. 30, 2020. (PTI/Shahbaz Khan)

Talks deadlocked over repeal of agricultural laws

Agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar has assured the farmers' unions that MSP and the mandi system will continue...

31 Dec 2020 11:01 AM IST

Farmers during a protest against the three agri laws at the Ghazipur-Delhi border on Monday. (PTI)

Protesting farmers take a hard stand ahead of next round of talks

The unions have deferred their proposed tractor march till Thursday, so that the rally does not clash with their talks...

30 Dec 2020 11:17 AM IST

o make farming profitable, two things need to happen. One is that fewer people be involved in it, and the other is that farm produce gets higher prices (PTI)

Mohan Guruswamy | Farmers' stir link with rural distress tenuous

The suicide rate in India, an agrarian economy, was 13 per 100,000, the rate in industrialised, rich countries was often...

29 Dec 2020 4:06 AM IST

Members of various farmer organisations protest against the Central Government over agriculture related ordinances, in Patiala. PTI photo

Govt hikes MSP for six rabi crops to woo farmers

Higher MSP will empower farmers and contribute to doubling of their income, tweeted PM Modi

22 Sept 2020 12:29 PM IST

Farmers leaders during a meeting with Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar (unseen) and Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal (unseen) over the new farm laws, at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, Wednesday, December. 30, 2020. (PTI)

Government hopes 7th round of talks will end on positive note today

Government hopes 7th round of talks will end on positive note today

4 Jan 2021 7:02 AM IST

Wheat import duty was raised to 10 per cent to curb shipments. (Photo: PTI)

Govt hikes customs duty on wheat to 30 pc to curb cheaper imports

Government's third advance estimate has pegged wheat output at a record 98.61 million tonnes for the 2017-18 crop year.

24 May 2018 12:04 PM IST

55,012 farmers of Konkan division took the insurance cover

Loan waivers are good politics, not economics

For agriculture to be viable, the farmer must get a minimum support price that is close to the market price.

21 Dec 2018 12:05 AM IST

The Kisan Sabha had staged a gherao in CBS Nashik in 2016 and chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had accepted the farmers demands.

Farmers renew warning of agitation

The committee has given a protest call in every tehsil from June 1.

30 May 2018 5:55 AM IST

Niti Aayog had earlier proposed doing away with the distinction between plan and non-plan expenditure.

MSP for all crops to take longer, no consensus

Official sources said the government interventions and initiatives for the sugarcane sector may come up at the meeting.

29 Jun 2018 5:45 AM IST