BJP MP Varun Gandhi submits private members' bill for legal guarantee of MSPContinuing to back the demands of farmers, BJP MP Varun Gandhi has piloted a private member's bill seeking legal guarantee of MSP with fina...
Demands met, Samyukt Kisan Morcha now awaits official letter for calling off stirOn Wednesday, the government assured the SKM that the mandate of the committee would be to ensure how the farmers can get MSP on their prod...
Agriculture Ministry officials get ready for Monday's meeting with protesting farmersThe protesting farmers are demanding that the three farm laws be repealed and MSP should get a legal backing. The government is also sticki...
Rajasthan govt to bring bill against Centre's farm laws on October 31: CongressAfter Punjab, the Rajasthan government will pass a bill to negate "anti-farmer provisions" in the Centre's three agricultural bills on Octo...
Four Bills, resolution moved against farm laws in Punjab assemblyThe state government's legislative counter provides for imprisonment of not less than three years and fine for sale or purchase of wheat or...
Dharmendra Pradhan slams Congress for spreading 'false information' about farm sector reformsTerming three contentious farm bills that have triggered protests across the country as "farmers' friendly", he said the reforms will help ...
Can economics trump politics to usher in agricultural reforms?Indian agriculture has a fundamental problem: around 50 per cent of India’s work force in the agriculture sector contribute only 17 per cen...
Withdraw farm bills, guarantee MSP: Rahul Gandhi to Modi govtAs part of the Congress' 'Speak up for farmers' campaign on social media, several party leaders such as Priyanka Gandhi, K C Venugopal, P C...
New agri bills will change farmers' fortune, says Agri Minister TomarThe new laws for agriculture will significantly benefit farmers, and have absolutely nothing to do with the system of minimum support price...
Centre hikes up rabi MSP by 6.3%, assures farmers of no dilution of minimum support pricesThe government has raised minimum support prices (MSP) of the rabi, or winter-sown, crops by up to 6.3% and announced the new rates a month...
Government hikes wheat MSP by Rs 50 to Rs 1,975 per quintalThe announcement comes in the backdrop of widespread protests by Opposition parties as also by farmer groups in Punjab, Haryana and some ot...
Farm bills anti-farmer, will lead to famine: Mamata BanerjeeAll opposition parties should come together and fight these bills tooth and nail, said Banerjee who is also the Trinamool Congress supremo.
Why is govt 'running away' from giving legal responsibility for MSP, asks CongDays after their passage in the Lok Sabha, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar introduced the Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Pr...
Agriculture Bills introduced in Rajya Sabha; Tomar says Minimum Support Price will continueThe bills are facing staunch opposition from farmer bodies as well as from within the ruling coalition. Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the food proc...
Alliance with BJP strong, Cong trying to mislead farmers on farm bills: JJP's Digvijay ChautalaThree bills -- 'The Farmers' Produce Trade And Commerce (Promotion And Facilitation) Bill', 'The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agree...
We have committed on minimum support price, we will do it: Ravi Shankar PrasadPrasad said he is not aware of the notice as he insisted that no notification can be issued in contrast with provisions in Land Acquisition...
- Wheat farmers unlikely to harvest bonus this season
There is no move yet within the government to announce a bonus for wheat as it may further fuel inflation.