Page 8 - Minimum Support Price

Centre directs Punjab, Haryana to make online MSP payment from next season

Centre plans to monetize assets of Food Corporation of India and Central Warehousing Corp, says union minister Piyush Goyal

India's MSP operations are WTO-compliant: Union Minister Piyush Goyal

Goyal on Tuesday said the minimum support price (MSP) operations being conducted by the country are completely compliant with the rules of the WTO

Give chance to agriculture reforms, MSP to stay: PM Modi to farmers

Narendra Modi said that the MSP will continue and so will the monthly ration scheme to 800 million people

Paddy procurement at MSP up 18% at 61.4 mn tn valuing nearly Rs 1.16 trn

Paddy procurement at MSP has risen by 18% so far this kharif marketing season to 61.4 mn tonnes, amid farmers protest at Delhi-borders against three new agri marketing reform laws

MSP regime has assured 1.5 times more price to farmers: Nirmala Sitharaman

Sitharaman on Monday said that the Minimum Support Price regime has undergone a change to assure price to farmers that is at least 1.5 times the cost of production across all commodities

New agriculture laws will undercut MSP procurement, Mandi system: Pawar

NCP president Sharad Pawar said the new agriculture laws of the Union government will adversely impact the Minimum Support Price (MSP) procurement and weaken the 'Mandi' system

No more concessions

Farmers' intransigence, invasion of Delhi are unacceptable

Farmers reject govt's proposal to hold farm laws for 18 months

This was announced by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of protesting unions leading protests at several Delhi border points

Agri market reforms ignore reality

A free market-based system does not reflect the diversity of the Indian agro-economy or the interests of small farmers

Minimum Support Price should be made legally mandatory, says KC Tyagi

Janata Dal-United (JDU) leader KC Tyagi on Saturday said it is very unfortunate that the 9th round of talks between farm unions and the Central Government remained inconclusive

Punjab's real problem: The loss of its entrepreneurial impulse

Punjab, once India's richest state, has slipped and fallen behind. It needs to get off the paddy-wheat-MSP high and rediscover its entrepreneurial impulse

Govt-farmers meet: 9th round ends with date for 10th round of talks

Unions stuck to their main demand of a complete repeal of the three Acts

Farmer leader opts out of SC panel on agri laws; next talks on Friday

Centre to hold 9th round of talks with protesting farmers today

Farm laws: Supreme irony

Apex court offers a face-saver

Road to nowhere

Time for the Opposition to pull back on farm laws

Farmers' protest: MSP distorting cropping patterns, says WTO report

The practice of procurement from certain states has also resulted in regional disparities in production

Govt procures 52.15 mn tonnes of paddy so far at MSP, costing Rs 98,457 cr

The Centre has procured 52 mn tonnes of paddy so far during this kharif marketing season from nearly 6.8 mn farmers at MSP costing Rs 98,457 crore

Explained: How the Punjabi diaspora is influencing farmer agitation

The agitation is a massive alliance of unions - as many as 472 unions are associated with the movement, of which 32 are leading it upfront, and at least 40 involved in the talks with the governments

A dead end

Govt cannot accept extreme demands of farmers

Govt should include MSP in farm laws or take back legislations: Owaisi

The NDA government at the Centre can amend the new farm laws and incorporate MSP or withdraw them to end the over a month-long agitation by farmers, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi said