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Suryapet: Expressing anger over the fall in paddy price, a group of farmers on Saturday damaged three weighing machines and set fire to dumps of paddy in in Agricultural market yard at Suryapet and laid a seige on the market yard office. With the paddy price falling to Rs 1200 per quintal from yesterday’s price […]

By HS Shergill, Varinder Sharma Commercial food production anywhere in the world requires significant government subsidies. India is no exception. Demand for foodgrains in India will outstrip supply in the coming decades. And yet some of India’s high-level policy economists still believe self-sufficiency is a natural and spontaneous feature of Indian agriculture. They say strategies […]

By Mahitha Lingala A country with a magnitude as much as that of India thrives only when both levels of governments, in the States as well as the Centre, work in tandem towards prosperity. Cooperative federalism is a work in progress in India. Despite powers being divided asymmetrically in the Constitution, India is a Union […]

Kothagudem: CPI (Maoist) Central Committee has called upon farmers and the common public in the country to make the ‘Betrayal Day’ protest on Jan 31 a success. The Central Committee spokesperson Abhay, in a statement released to the media here on Friday, said the BJP government at the Centre had failed to fulfil the demands […]

Hyderabad: State governments across the country should be allowed to decide the Minimum Support Price (MSP) based on crop cultivation and other factors in their respective areas, and the Centre should procure the entire produce at the MSP decided by States, Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said on Thursday. Stating that the Centre should change […]

He declared that the State government was ready to purchase black gram crop through the Telangana State Co-operative Marketing Federation (TS MarkFed).

Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy said considering the welfare of farmers, the Centre should change its approach and take up the responsibility of ensuring rational cultivation of crops besides encouraging pulses and oilseed cultivation. The State government was extensively promoting organic farming and appropriate measures were being taken up accordingly, he said during question […]

The decision taken by the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will help farmers take a call on which kharif (summer) crop to grow.

He said what the farmers protesting against the new laws have highlighted is that there is no law on MSP, because of which traders loot them by buying crops at lower prices.

On the farm sector and the ongoing protest, Modi said, "MSP was there. MSP is there. MSP will remain in the future. Affordable ration for the poor will continue. Mandis will be modernised".

The delegation members included Sule, DMK's Kanimozhi, Shiromani Akali Dal's Harsimrat Kaur Badal and TMC's Saugata Roy.

Around 500 protesters stayed put at the UP Gate with more pouring in from western Uttar Pradesh in the night on the call of the BKU, an influential farmers' union in north India.

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha, a pro-farmer body, has given a nationwide call for a struggle from January 23 to 26, including rallies to Raj Bhavans (governor houses) in states.

11th round talks could not even reach a decision on the next date for the meeting as the govt also hardened its position saying it is ready to meet again once the unions agree to discuss the suspension proposal

The Centre had offered to put on hold the three laws for 12-18 months and also set up a joint committee to find solutions.

Addressing a crucial meeting of the Congress Working Committee, she alleged that it was now abundantly clear that the three farm laws were prepared in haste.

Sources said police officers tried to convince the protesting farm unions to hold their tractor rally on the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway instead of the Outer Ring Road, but in vain.

Says no clarity in laws if FCI will procure agri produce in future

Suryapet: Nalgonda MP N Uttam Kumar Reddy on Monday urged the State government to reconsider its decision of scrapping paddy procurement centres in the State from this crop season. Participating in a demonstration held by the party in front of the District Collectorate protesting against the anti-farmers’ laws, Uttam Kumar Reddy said that lifting of […]

If the new farm laws are good for everybody, where was the need for secrecy and haste in passing them?