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New farm group to press for MSP law, months after govt repealed reforms

After the agitation to repeal farm laws, a group of farmers on Tuesday floated a new front to press for their demand for a law for guaranteeing minimum support prices for farm produce.

Raw jute MSP hiked by Rs 250 to Rs 4,750 a quintal for 2022-23 season

Jute Corporation of India will continue as central government nodal agency to undertake price support operations and the losses incurred, if any, in such operations, will be fully reimbursed by Centre

Ukraine crisis: Farmers registering to sell wheat at MSP in MP down by 17%

Around 1.98 million farmers have applied to sell wheat to govt agencies this year, against around 2.4 million during the same period last year

UP polls: SP will stop MSP being given into farmers' accounts, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that if they get a chance, the "fake Samajwadis" will stop the Minimum Support Price (MSP) from being given into the accounts of the farmers.

Will form committee on MSP after assembly polls: Tomar tells Rajya Sabha

While announcing the repeal of three farm laws in November last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to set up a committee to discuss the farmers' demand for a legal guarantee on MSP

Budget 2022 'extremely negative' for Delhi, betrays farmers: Sisodia

The central government not only reduced allocation for minimum support price (MSP) but also cut down the number of beneficiaries in the Budget, he said

Higher MSP allocation will drive consumption in rural markets: FMCG makers

Nearly 35 per cent of the FMCG sales come from rural areas and after the second wave, it was badly hit

At all-party meet, AAP demands discussion on Pegasus, Delhi's share of GST

At the meeting, the AAP also demanded that steps should be taken to stop the "insult" of Mahatma Gandhi and bring a law to guarantee minimum support price for the farmers produce

BKU to observe 'Virodh Diwas', Tikait says Centre should fulfil MSP promise

BKU leader Rakesh Tikait said that farmers will observe 'Virodh Diwas' on Monday demanding that the Centre should fulfil their promise made to farmers on MSP.

Strategies to boost edible oil output won't succeed sans firm purchase plan

Despite MSP spike and higher acreage and yields, India's dependence on imported cooking media has only grown

Best of BS Opinion: The limits of MSP, Covid-19 pandemic news, and more

Here are the best of BS Opinion pieces of the day

2021, the year that was: Of farmers, protests and three dead laws

The ninth of year-ender series finds out why farm sector's multiple problems remain unresolved

Agriculture needs a booster dose

The cure for the farm sector's ills lies primarily in making agriculture remunerative

No one raises issue of hiking MSP for sugarcane out of fear: Varun Gandhi

He said his party colleagues do not raise such issues as they fear that they will not be given poll tickets

What is Minimum Support Price, or MSP?

After Centre made a U-turn on agriculture laws, farmers hailed the government's decision to look into their demand to legalise Minimum Support Price or MSP. But what exactly is MSP? Let's understand

TMS, Ep68 - Market crash, exports, EV batteries, Minimum Support Price

What are the strategies to ride market uncertainty? What is the road ahead for Indian exports? Will battery swapping catapult EVs into the mainstream? What is Minimum Support Price? All answers here

Rakesh Tikait says bigger issue of MSP persists, questions govt's intention

The bigger issue of minimum support price (MSP) for crops is pending, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said in Muzaffarnagar

Committee on MSP to be set up 'very soon in near future': Agri Secy

Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agrawal said on Monday that the committee will be formed soon

Setback for reforms

India needs feasible ways to increase farm incomes

Year-long farmers' stir against three acts finally comes to an end

The SKM leaders said in a press conference that protest sites across the country will start winding up on Dec 11 after holding a victory rally to mark the occasion