Private companies may have to let government buy wheat firstPrivate wheat industry and trade are eyeing Uttar Pradesh, currently the source of the cheapest wheat in India, as the central government's...
Centre, MP govt on collision course over buying of wheatIn the eye of the storm is Congress’ poll promise of giving “incentive” of Rs 160 per quintal to wheat farmers.
Ram Vilas Paswan snubs Nitish Kumar on bonus payment"The Centre never banned payment of bonus to farmers in Bihar... the state government is indulging in misleading campaign on the issue," Pa...
Centre asks states not to announce bonus on rice, wheat this yearIt also said the continuous mono-cropping is affecting soil health. Farmers are growing those crops on which states fix bonus.
- CACP sticks to same MSP on wheat; favours Rs 40/quintal bonus
According to a senior government official, CACP has maintained its earlier recommendation that the MSP of wheat should be frozen at last ye...
- Food Ministry against giving wheat bonus of Rs 130/quintal to farmers in 2013-14
Food Ministry has opposed a proposal to give a bonus of Rs 130 per quintal to farmers over & above the wheat support price for the next sea...
Rajasthan's bonus for wheat attracts Punjab farmers tooThe Rajasthan government is aware that the bonus scheme, launched to support farmers in the state, has attracted beneficiaries out of the s...
- Dry Spell: Govt may junk wheat bonus this year
The government appears to have junked plans for a Rs 100-150 per quintal bonus for wheat this season.
- What else the farmers want? Better price for their produce
Wheat crisis in making in rajasthan as farmers sell in mp where they get rs 100 over the MSP.
- 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.
- MSP hike may still elude govt goals
Can the hike in support price for wheat to be marketed in 2008 ensure sufficient grain in the mandis to meet all of welfare and PDS needs?
- Paddy bonus of Rs 40-50 per quintal on cards
The Centre is mulling a bonus of Rs 40-50 per quintal for paddy procured in the forthcoming marketing season.
- Govt rules out wheat MSP hike
Ruling out any increase in minimum support price (MSP) for wheat, the Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court that farmers are being paid...
- Wheat farmers to reap at least Rs 275/q profit
Here’s what the whopping subsidy bill of over Rs 1,500 crore that the government is set to fork out on the wheat bonus price of Rs 100 per ...
- Wheat farmers to get Rs 850/quintal
The Centre has signalled the beginning of a landmark switch to a regime where support prices for grain would be decided in close consonance...
- Govt likely to fix wheat support price at Rs 700/qtl
For the second year running, the Centre is likely to make a distinct difference between the minimum support price (MSP) and procurement pri...
- 'Divert Rs 1,400cr for wheat bonus'
The Shiromani Akali Dal on Thursday asked the Centre to either hike Minimum Support Price of wheat or divert Rs 1,400 crore from the Rs 3,4...