Hyderabad, May 29 (IANS) Telangana tops among all the states in India in paddy procurement during Rabi season, Minister for Irrigation and Civil Supplies, N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, said on Friday. The minister said Telangana has already procured 60 lakh tonnes of paddy, compared to about 24 lakh tonnes in Andhra Pradesh, 11-12 lakh tonnes in Tamil Nadu, 3 lakh tonnes in Maharashtra, and nearly 2 lakh tonnes in Kerala.He told a press conference that Telangana is conducting what is arguably the most s…
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Gandhinagar, May 26 (IANS) The Gujarat government on Tuesday cleared a significant financial and policy measure for the cooperative sugar sector while also opening registration for farmers to sell summer moong at the Minimum Support Price (MSP), bringing combined relief measures for more than two lakh farmers and cooperative institutions across the state. Announcing the decision, Agriculture and Cooperation Minister Jitu Vaghani said: “The state government has granted official approval to sugarc…
Hyderabad, May 25 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Monday alleged that the Central government is not procuring even 30 per cent of the food grains produced by the farmers.During separate interactions with delegations of CPI and CPI-M leaders, he stated that although the Central government announced Minimum Support Prices (MSP), it is not procuring food grains adequately.He said the Centre is not even procuring 30 per cent of the harvested crop and stressed that questions must …
Rohtak, May 25 (IANS) Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Hooda on Monday stated that the state is in turmoil due to inflation and an acute shortage of electricity and water. He said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government had hiked petrol prices by Rs 7.50 in just 10 days, even as crude oil prices in the international market continued to decline.“This situation prevails because the BJP government is levying taxes at double the rate compared to the Congress regime. The value-added tax …
Bhopal, May 21 (IANS) Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader, Kamal Nath, on Thursday alleged that more than three lakh farmers have been removed from the beneficiaries’ list of the PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme in the state under the BJP government.In a statement issued on Thursday, Kamal Nath claimed that farmers in Madhya Pradesh are being “deceived in every possible way” by the state government.In a statement issued to the press on Thursday, he claimed that whil…
Gandhinagar, May 13 (IANS) Farmers in Gujarat will be able to plan the upcoming Kharif sowing season with advance clarity on minimum support prices (MSP) for 2026-27, after the Central government announced revised procurement rates for key crops ahead of the sowing period. The Centre has increased MSPs across several major Kharif crops, with cotton, sesame, tur and groundnut among those receiving higher rates compared to last year.The announcement has been made before sowing begins for cro…
Shimla, April 26 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Sunday virtually inaugurated and laid foundation stones of development projects worth Rs 34.31 crore of Dr Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry in Nauni in Solan district, saying natural farming is the future. He inaugurated a hostel with a capacity of 107 students at the College of Horticulture and Forestry in Neri in Hamirpur, which was constructed at a cost of Rs 3.63 crore. Additionally, he inaug…
Bhopal, April 24 (IANS) Former Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Friday accused the BJP-led Madhya Pradesh government of deliberately creating hurdles for farmers seeking to sell their produce at the Minimum Support Price (MSP).His remarks came after the Central government recently permitted the state to procure 10 million tonnes of wheat at MSP.In a strongly worded post on his X handle, Kamal Nath alleged that the government first delayed the procurement process by nearly a month, citing a shortage …
Bhopal, April 23 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government has sent a proposal to the Centre seeking an increase in the wheat procurement target under the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for the Rabi Marketing Season 2026-27, as procurement is expected to exceed the existing target of 7.8 million metric tonnes.In a late-night post on X, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav shared that the state government has sent a proposal to the Centre. “Given the robust wheat yield in the state and the likelihood of procurem…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) on Wednesday sought the urgent intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over crashing farmgate prices of potato, which the farmers’ body claims has pushed millions of growers toward financial trouble.The farmers’ body threatened to launch a countrywide indefinite agitation to pressure the government over the escalating crisis faced by potato farmers if its demands are not conced…