Minimum Support Price

Why a legal guarantee of MSP is fraught with challenges

The farm unions demanding a statutory guarantee of minimum support prices marching towards Delhi have put the Government of India in a bind

Rising prices: Why India is in tomato trouble again

Reports indicate that tomato prices have jumped 445 percent, surpassing the cost of petrol. McDonald’s also announced the removal of tomatoes from their burgers due to the skyrocketing prices

How Modi government's MSP policy boosts agricultural income, social security and distributive justice

Strengthening the Minimum Support Price is a major requirement to increase rural income as there has been a substantial increase in the cost of production due to a significant rise in key input prices

Shivraj Singh Chouhan's inept leadership led to farmers' crisis in Madhya Pradesh, says Congress' Ajay Singh

The story of Shivraj Singh Chouhan started from a dumper and will end in a dumper, says Leader of Opposition Ajay Singh stating that the Madhya Pradesh chief minister's reign may have started to wane

An organised, robust response to stubble burning is need of the hour

The solutions have to be viable, decentralised and scientific but for them to be truly sustainable they have to be economically viable for the farmer and markets where they engage

Why a farmers’ agitation 2.0 begins to roll out in Delhi

Delhi is again seeing a farmers’ agitation 2.0. They are arriving from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and different parts of Uttar Pradesh

Explained: Why farmers are protesting in Delhi once again

Farmers belonging to different parts of the country have gathered at Jantar Mantar in Delhi for a day-long event to reiterate their demand for minimum support price and also raise the issue of unemployment in the country. Security arrangements were beefed up in the Capital ahead of the agitation

UP: SKM will commence 75-hour sit-in in Lakhimpur Kheri to advocate unmet demands

The umbrella group comprising about 40 farm organisations, primarily demands the proper implementation of MSP for crops. Activists also urged the centre to stop providing alleged protection to minister and son involved in Lakhimpur Kheri violence last year

Farmer leaders from Punjab apprehensive about Centre's new committee on minimum support price

Farmer leaders felt the committee should have limited itself to the issue of MSP while other topics such as ways to promote natural farming and crop diversification among others could have been dealt with separately

Explained: Why Stalin wants the Centre to advance paddy procurement by a month

A number of factors, including the early release of Cauvery water from Mettur dam and a promise of MSP for all Kharif crops ahead of sowing, have boosted the farmers’ confidence for a bountiful harvest in the Kharif marketing season