Research firm ICRA predicts that kharif crop sowing this season may surpass last year’s levels by a reasonable margin. With favourable monsoon conditions, kharif sowing has been completed on 76% of the normal sown area, up by 4% year-on-year as of July 2025. The kharif crops, mainly moong, rice, and maize, are planted during the…
The Indian government has approved the procurement of moong and groundnut from Haryana, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh at the minimum support price (MSP), as well as a 15-day extension of the procurement period in Andhra Pradesh. The Central Price Support Scheme (PSS) will be utilized for the procurement of summer crops in 2025-26. The Agriculture…
The government is being forced to increase purchases of pulses and oilseeds at their respective minimum support prices (MSPs) because the mandi prices of most of these products are below these MSPs. Trade sources attribute the decline in market prices to liberal imports and encouraging harvest prospects. In contrast to the MSP of Rs 7550/quintal…
While growers who stuck to urad, moong, bajra, and ragi were unable to realize the MSP, farmers who sold cotton, soyabean, paddy, and jowar crops in the agricultural produce marketing committee (APMC) markets from October to December 2022, the crucial harvesting season, earned an additional 8,241.6 crore over the combined minimum support price (MSP) value….
The farmer in Madhya Pradesh harvested a soyabean crop from his 10 acres of land in this Kharif season that amounted to about 55 quintals. Nearly 20 quintals, at an average cost of Rs 5,400 each, have been sold by him thus far in the open market. Selling oilseeds earned him close to Rs 6,500…
