The government has begun to sell chana (gram) below the minimum support price (MSP) from the buffer kept with the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India since it is burdened with 3 million tonnes (mt) of inventories that were primarily purchased in the last two years (Nafed). Chana is currently being sold at mandi…
The production for the October-September cotton year 2022–23 is anticipated to increase by about 15%, provided the weather remains favourable until October, providing relief to the entire cotton value chain, at a time when the central government is concerned about the closure of 50% of the country’s spinning mills due to cotton shortages. India’s cotton…
Despite concerns over production, the government set the estimated amount of rice it will purchase for the central pool at 518 lakh tonnes (LT), an increase of 1.60 percent from the previous year. In a meeting presided over by Union Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey here, the estimates were finalized following discussions with state food secretaries…
The central government on Sunday ruled out any move to import wheat and said there is enough wheat stock to meet domestic demand as well as for public distribution. The government last week estimated wheat production to have decreased almost 3% to 106.84 million tonnes (MT) in the 2021-22 crop year (July-June). The drop in…
Wheat prices at key mandi all over the country are pricing around 14%-19% above the minimum support price (MSP) of Rs.2,015 a quintal for the current rabi season (2022-23), as traders are holding on to stocks in expectation of a further rise in prices in the build-up to the festive season. Traders’ action has dulled…
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved 4% to 9% increase in the Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) of kharif crops for the 2022-23 crop year (July-June) with sowing just starting on the onset of the monsoon. The benchmark rates have been fixed to increase farmers’ income as the guiding principle of 50% profit over cost has…
Central government may announce increases in minimum support prices (MSP) for the summer crops in 2022-23 year soon, taking into consideration a sharp rise in costs of farming inputs. The MSP increases this year could roughly be in the range of 5-20%, the highest since 2018-19 when a new policy of 50% profits over computed…
The government’s wheat procurement in the current year down by more than 54% on year to 18.65 million tonne (mt) till Tuesday. With an arrival of only around 81,000 tonne of wheat on Tuesday in mandies mostly in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, purchase of the grain by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and…
Chana procurement increased to 20.41 lakh tonnes (lt) on Monday. Maharashtra, so far, tops the list of States with over 6.61 lt having been procured, closely followed by Madhya Pradesh at 6.13 lt and Gujarat at 5.35 lt. Procurement of chana at minimum support price (MSP) by organizations such as NAFED and FCI has crossed…
The government’s wheat acquirement in the current year may be less than half the level last year, as market prices stand above the Minimum Support Price (MSP) allotted by the government. Procurement of the grain by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and other government agencies at the MSP stood at 17.59 million tonne (mt)…
