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About 81.14 lakhs paddy farmers benefitted from KMS Procurement Op
Updated : 18 hours, 14 min ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI): About 81.14 lakh paddy farmers have benefitted from Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) Procurement Operations with an MSP value of Rs 1,08054.40 crores, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution informed on Wednesday.
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Farmer leaders to consider govt proposal to put farm laws on hold,
Updated : 18 hours, 45 min ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI): Farmers leaders on Wednesday said they would consider the Centre's proposal to put on hold farm laws for over one year and to form a committee of government and farmer representatives to discuss the laws clause wise and respond at the next meeting on J
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Minimum Support Price should be made legally mandatory, says KC Ty
Updated : 5 days ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], January 16(ANI): 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, adding that efforts should be made to legalise mandatory the Minimum Suppo
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Kerala FM slams Centre over farm laws, hikes MSP for rubber, paddy
Updated : 6 days, 3 hours ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], January 15 (ANI): Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac began the presentation of the budget by criticising the Centre over farm laws, stating that the central government is pursuing "neo-liberal policies and is helping corporates in the name of reforms
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KJ Alphons attacks Rahul Gandhi, asks him to analyse what farmers
Updated : 6 days, 17 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 14 (ANI): Responding to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's allegations that the central government is suppressing the farmers for helping a 'handful of businesses', former Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader KJ Alphons on Thursday asked Waynad MP to
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Anna Hazare writes to PM, demands that govt fulfil assurance on fi
Updated : 6 days, 20 hours ago IST
Ahmednagar (Maharashtra) [India], January 14 (ANI): Social activist Anna Hazare on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, stating that farmers should get 50 pc more than the cost of inputs but they do not get it though the government had given assurances in this regard in the past.
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'Haryana govt will complete its full tenure', says CM Khattar
Updated : 1 week, 1 day ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 13 (ANI): Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Tuesday met home minister Amit Shah amidst the ongoing protests by famers and said there is no threat to the BJP-JJP coalition government, which will complete its
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MSP in threat as agricultural sector will be privatised under farm
Updated : 1 week, 6 days ago IST
BHOPAL (Madhya Pradesh) [India], January 7 (ANI): Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday said that the central government will privatise the agricultural sector with the help of these farm laws and farmers will not be able to get Minimum Support Prize (MSP) for their pr
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Paddy procurement rises by 24.98 pc compared to last year
Updated : 2 weeks, 1 day ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 6 (ANI): The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare announced on Tuesday that paddy procurement for Kharif 2020-21 session showed an increase of 24.98 per cent with purchase of over 506.33 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of paddy up to January 4 against 405.10 LMT la
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60 farmers lost their lives during protest against new farm laws,
Updated : 2 weeks, 3 days ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 4 (ANI): A total of 60 farmers have lost their lives during the ongoing farmers' protest against the new farm laws so far, claimed Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson, Rakesh Tikait on Monday.
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Procurement of paddy under MSP in Chhattisgarh
Updated : 2 weeks, 3 days ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): An Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Government of India, State Government and Food Cooperation of India in both Scheme of Decentralised procurement (DCP) and non-DCP states for procurement of paddy from farmers under the central po
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Over 850 academicians support new farm laws, say these open market
Updated : 2 weeks, 5 days ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 1 (ANI): Over 850 academicians from different parts of the country have strongly supported the agricultural reform laws brought by the government, saying these Acts seek to free farm trade from restrictions and enable farmers to sell their produce at competitive
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