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Minimum Support Price (MSP)
CAG blames Centre for increase in foodgrain procurement cost
@Jyotika_Sood Issue Date: May 8, 2013
In its report to Parliament on Tuesday, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has accused the Indian government of adopting a “skewed” method of deciding the minimum support price for food grains. MSP is the price at which government agencies procure wheat and paddy from farmers.
Government hikes minimum support price of paddy by 16 per cent
Issue Date: Jun 14, 2012
PM should head food security bill: M S Swaminathan
Issue Date: May 25, 2012
Agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan has called for setting up a body headed by the prime minister for effective execution of the National Food Security Bill (NFSB) once it is enacted. All chief ministers should be members of this board, he added.
Agriculture ministry bats for GM crops
Issue Date: Mar 19, 2012
Food security bill forgoes nutrition security
Issue Date: Jan 17, 2012
Amidst the cacophony around the Lokpal Bill, the National Food Security Bill (NFSB) 2011 has been tabled in the Lok Sabha. Whatever the Government of India has fleshed out in the Bill is actually in pursuance of its Constitutional obligations (Article 47) and obligations under various international conventions.
95 farm suicides in a month in Andhra Pradesh
Issue Date: Dec 29, 2011
Maharashtra farmers demand better price. Chief minister offers aid package
Issue Date: Dec 17, 2011
Protests and agitation by Maharashtra farmers demanding better price for their farm produce seem to have gone in vain. Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan evaded the issue of raising minimum support price for cotton, soybean and paddy in the ongoing winter session of the the Legislative Assembly in Nagpur.
Wheat price war
Issue Date: Oct 25, 2011
The wheat sowing season is here and so is the debate over what should be the minimum support price (MSP) for it. But this year's debate is a little different from the ones in previous years when farmers kept demanding higher MSP and the government paid scant heed.
Price tag for tendu, bamboo
Issue Date: May 15, 2011
HOW much does a bundle of tendu leaf cost? The question has left the government scratching its head as it prepares to introduce minimum support price (MSP) for minor forest produce (MFP).
