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…
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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…
Jaipur, April 21 (IANS) To strengthen wheat procurement at the Minimum Support Price in the Kota-Bundi region, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday chaired a high-level review meeting at the CAD Auditorium with officials from the Food Corporation of India, Rajfed, Tilamsangh, NCCF, and the district administration in Kota. Birla directed all agencies to increase procurement targets at mandis and procurement centres, stressing that no farmer arriving to sell wheat at the Minimum Support Price …