The Economic Affairs Cabinet Committee has approved the 2025 season’s Minimum Support Price (MSP) for copra. Following the 2018-19 Union Budget declaration, the government established that MSP for all mandated crops would be set at a minimum of 1.5 times the all-India weighted average production cost. The Fair Average Quality milling copra’s MSP is fixed…
Olympian wrestler Vinesh Phogat participated in the farmer protest at Shambhu situated on the Punjab-Haryana border on Saturday. BATHINDA: Olympian wrestler Vinesh Phogat participated in the farmer protest upon completion of 200 days of struggle for MSP, at Shambhu situated on the Punjab-Haryana border on Saturday. While calling the farmers annadatas and likening them to…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday responded to leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi a day after the Congress leader went all guns blazing at the Modi government in Lok Sabha during the discussion on Union Budget 2.0.Gandhi on Monday had accused the NDA government of spreading a ‘chakravyuh’ with everybody trapped in it,…
NEW DELHI: Farmer leaders in Punjab on Tuesday expressed their disappointment with the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, claiming it “ignored” the farming sector and failed to address the issue of providing a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP). The budget allocates Rs 1.52 lakh crore for the agriculture and allied…
NEW DELHI: While silent on legal guarantee to procurement of crops at minimum support price (MSP), BJP‘s manifesto on Sunday talked of the party’s promise of continuing to increase MSP from “time to time”.The party promised to “further incentivise” crop diversification to make agriculture “sustainable and remunerative” – a pitch it had made to protesting…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader took a jibe at the recent ED raids calling the Enforcement Directorate- ‘Extortion Directorate’.In a rally in Telangana where the Congress also launched its Manifesto, Rahul Gandhi said, “Today ED has become Extortion Directorate. BJP is running the world’s biggest washing machine. The country’s most corrupt leaders are standing with Narendra…
