Paddy News

With increasing raw material costs and heavy rainfall in the northern states, retail milk prices are expected to rise in the coming months. Experts believe that the prices will increase by Rs. 2-4 a litre. Because of heavy rainfall prices of paddy, maize, and rice bran have considerably increased and this increase has been passed on to the milk prices. Not only milk, but the prices of eggs, soybean, cooking oil, are also rising. Supply chain hurdles are only one part of the equation, but climate change and Russia Ukraine war are troubling the middle class even more.

Paddy has been procured from 10.09 lakh farmers at the MSP value of ₹22,026.26 croreTill October 14, about 883.34 tonne of moong and urad at MSP value of ₹6.36 crore has been procured from 862 farmers in Haryana, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra

Based on the proposal from the states, approval was accorded for procurement of 42.46 LMT of Pulse and Oilseeds of Kharif Marketing Season 2020

Paddy worth ₹1,082.46 crore has been purchased at MSP from 41,084 farmers so far, says Food Ministry

With the release of procurement data on a daily basis, the govt possibly aims to send a message to farmers protesting against new farm laws that it has no intention of scrapping procurement at MSP

Paddy farmers unhappy with CM Raman Singh for failing to keep the 2013 promise of 2,100 per quintal MSP

Since the paddy straw cannot be used as animal feed, farmers set fire to it to get the field ready for the next crop of wheat

The pollution problem is about the allocation of right resources in the right areas. It is a political problem more than an economic one

Based on data from monitoring stations, Air Quality Index for Delhi was recorded at 246 (poor) on Monday

While India has maintained that its food subsidy for paddy is below 6%, against the permissible 10%, till 2015-16, and has notified WTO, the US has raised doubts about India's calculations