Aizawl, June 2 (IANS) Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma on Tuesday said the state government is working to establish Mizoram ginger as a premium agricultural product in both national and international markets by capitalising on its superior quality and Geographical Indication (GI) tag status. He said efforts are being intensified to enhance production, value addition, and market access for the state’s GI-tagged ginger, to boost farmers’ income and strengthen Mizoram’s agricultural economy.M…
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Pune, June 2 (IANS) The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) on Tuesday staged a protest demanding the MSP for onion and blocked the Pune-Nashik Highway. The MVA further announced that they would continue to fight to ensure a MSP of Rs 3,000 per quintal for onions and to bring justice to the farmers who are struggling.”Farmers who have put in immense hard work and shed their blood and sweat to cultivate onions are now being forced to sell their produce at throwaway prices. Onions are not even fetching Rs 2 p…
Mumbai, May 28 (IANS) The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee President, Harshwardhan Sapkal, on Thursday claimed that the fuel price hike and shortages were entirely the result of the Modi government’s failures.He told reporters that the fuel crisis has arisen because Prime Minister Narendra Modi criminally neglected the economy while misleading people with the promise of ‘Atmanirbharta’.”Due to the absence of any concrete policy, the prices of petrol, diesel, CNG, and LPG gas have increas…
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said that a high-level meeting chaired by Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah has yielded several key decisions aimed at providing major relief to onion growers, sugarcane farmers and the sugar industry in Maharashtra.These include procurement of onions through NAFED and NCCF at Rs 1,580 per quintal, expansion of procurement from 2 lakh tonnes to 10 lakh tonnes, enhancement of onion storage and sorting-grading fa…
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said that in a major development aimed at easing rural and agrarian distress in Maharashtra, Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah has assured the state government of swift and favourable interventions to address key concerns of sugarcane and onion farmers.Following a meeting in the national capital, CM Fadnavis, who led a high-level delegation, told reporters that the Central government would soon roll out concrete p…
Mumbai, May 26 (IANS) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah will hold a meeting at his Delhi residence on Wednesday to address the crisis confronting Maharashtra’s onion growers and the cooperative sugar industry.The meeting, scheduled for 5 p.m., will be attended by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde and Sunetra Pawar, along with senior ministers, legislators and representatives of cooperative sugar bodies.The intervention comes amid mounting stress i…
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) The government on Thursday said it has significantly expanded MSP procurement operations in Chhattisgarh, along with launching Bihar’s first-ever structured pulse procurement initiative under the ‘Atmanirbhar Pulses Mission’.The government strengthened MSP procurement under the PM-AASHA scheme, with the National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India Ltd. (NCCF) and the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd. (NAFED) playing a c…
New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav will inaugurate the grand national-level Advanced Agriculture Festival (Unnat Krishi Mahotsav) at the Dussehra Ground in Raisen, Madhya Pradesh on Saturday.The festival will be held from Saturday to Monday (April 11–13, 2026), organised at the initiative of Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.The three-day event, described by Chouhan as an “Agricultur…
Bhopal, April 3 (IANS) A grand national-level Advanced Agriculture Festival (Unnat Krishi Mahotsav) will be organised at the Dussehra Ground in Raisen from April 11 to 13, 2026, at the initiative of Union Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. The three-day event, described by Chouhan as an “Agricultural Mahakumbh”, aims to provide farmers a complete solution from “Lab to Field” and “Seed to Market” under one roof. It will showcase modern farming technolog…
New Delhi/Jaipur, March 25 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla held a key meeting on Wednesday with Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution Pralhad Joshi at his office in the Parliament House complex, focusing on ensuring maximum procurement of the wheat crop in Rajasthan and safeguarding farmers’ interests. Rajasthan’s Minister for Food and Civil Supplies Sumit Godara and Minister for Cooperatives Gautam Dak were also present.The discussions centred on ensuring that farmers receive th…