The govt plans to go beyond crop insurance to include assets such as ponds, tractors, livestock, and palm trees
The farmers taking subsidies under this policy launched by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot in 2019 are setting up agro-processing industries, cold storage, pack houses and milk chilling plants
The announcements were made in the state Budget to strengthen and increase power generation in the state so that the farmers and general consumers get an uninterrupted power supply
Union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday said there is no shortage of crop nutrients in the country and asserted that there will be no hike in the prices of non-urea products. The minister also said that Nutrient Based Policy (NBS) for Phosphatic and Potassic (P&K) fertilisers for the Rabi season (October 2022 to March 2023) will be announced shortly. "There is no shortage of fertilisers in the country," Mandaviya told reporters on the sidelines of the International Dairy Federation (IDF) World Dairy Summit here. He was responding to a query about the supply situation for the upcoming Rabi sowing season that would start from October. On when the government would announce the NBS policy for P&K fertilisers for the Rabi season, he said it will be done shortly after analysing international prices. "We will not allow any increase in retail prices of DAP (Di-ammonium Phosphate) and other non-urea fertilisers," Mandaviya said, adding that the government
This comes as WTO D-G reaches India for three-day visit
Finance Secretary T V Somanathan on Tuesday underlined the need for improving the fiscal position of the government through reforms in farm, food and fertilizer subsidies
Procurement-based support could be replaced with price deficiency payments, but in the medium-term, they become difficult to manage
India, China joint proposal to WTO argued that developed nations cut down on indirect farm subsidies