The proposed scheme, similar to the one launched in Madhya Pradesh two years ago, would support farmers without distorting the market.

Soyabean traded firm across major markets in the country with a 1-3 per cent rise on Wednesday.

Newly-harvested onions are selling at Rs 1.50-11a kg in the wholesale markets of Maha.

It’s not that the BJP governments in the states and the Centre hadn’t done anything for farmers and rural workers. But may be something the...

Under the proposed scheme, the government will pay to farmers the difference between the MSP and monthly average price of oilseeds quoted i...

In his Budget 2018 speech, then finance minister Arun Jaitley had announced that think-tank Niti Aayog in consultation with central and sta...

The Nifty consumption index has outperformed the Nifty benchmark index by 6% in past one year.

The higher prices are due to lower wheat output expected this year, as well as the higher minimum support price announced by the government...

The CM said that e-procurement of 67.25 lakh metric tonnes of wheat on support price was made in the Rabi season of 2016- 17, and Rs 1,340 ...

According to state government officials, more than Rs 880 crore has been disbursed to 6.35 lakh farmers under the Bhavantar scheme.

Farmers are proposed to be compensated the difference between government-announced MSPs for select crops and actual market prices to ensure...

Budget is historic and revolutionary. A special fund for National Bamboo Mission, fisheries and animal sector will give a fillip to the rur...

We would like states to procure as much as required to reduce farmers' pain and we are willing to share the financial burden under the exis...

After I took over as chief minister, irrigation was a major challenge. Then, hardly 6.5 lakh hectare land was irrigated. But now, irrigatio...

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan made this announcement here late last night while addressing a state-level function of Madhya Pradesh ...

If prices in MP fall below MSP, it will naturally lead to a fall in prices in Rajasthan and Maharashtra.