Paddy procurement for 2022-23 Kharif crop is progressing smoothly with purchase of over 702 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of paddy up to February 20. Over 96 Lakh farmers have already been benefitted from the ongoing procurement operations with Minimum Support Price (MSP)
The year-long farmers’ agitation against the central government’s three farm laws has, to some extent, drawn the country’s attention towards the plight of tillers and the existing lacunae in the agriculture sector. Protests and demonstrations have taken place earlier too, but this
The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a collective of 32 farmer unions that was formed in November 2020 to oppose the farm laws, has appealed to the farmers to ‘punish’ the BJP in the five poll-bound states. The leaders of SKM issued an
Tribal Co-operative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) recently signed an MoU with Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini-Nation First Policy Research Centre (RMP-NFPRC) to work around the development and execution of research projects for the tribal population. As a part of its mission to
Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Mr. Narendra Singh Tomar informed that over two crore farmers have benefitted in the year 2020-21 from the procurement at minimum support price (MSP) as compared to last year. In the last year 2019-20, the
