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How many agricultural households are aware of MSP?

Business Line 03 Nov 2021
Even as farmers agitating against farm laws have been demanding guaranteed Minimum Support Price (MSP), the majority of agricultural households in India are not even aware of the MSP concept, and the percentage of output sold by households under the MSP range between 0 to 24.7 per cent (except sugarcane) ... Procurement agencies ... ....
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Diwali in Covid times: National Film Award-winning farm labourer has a special message

Business Line 03 Nov 2021
From a farm labourer to the National Film Award winner, 67-year-old Lata Kare has come a long way. Sitting alone at her rented house in Baramati, Lata is not celebrating Diwali. “Actually, there is nothing to celebrate ... ....
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Bumpy start to sugarcane crushing season in Maharashtra

Business Line 01 Nov 2021
About 54 sugar mills in Maharashtra have started the 2021-22 crushing season and have crushed 18.35 lakh tonnes (lt) sugarcane to produce 13.32 lakh quintals of sugar by November 1. Mills have reported a 7.26 per cent extract rate ... Meanwhile, farmers’ organisations have threatened agitations demanding FRP in a single instalment ... ....
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Fragmented landholding pushes agricultural homes to tap new sources of income

Business Line 27 Oct 2021
There is no evidence to suggest that fragmented landholding has hit agricultural production, but it has definitely altered the income sources of agricultural households ... Along with working for wages, farmers now earn more from animal farming, non-farm business, and leasing of land ... The data for income from leasing of land is unavailable ... ....
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Why farmers want to get rid of Asia’s biggest onion market?

Business Line 26 Oct 2021
Besides a drop in onion prices, the recent income tax (I-T) raids on onion traders in Nashik are likely to inadvertently alter the equation in onion farming and trading ... Onion prices drop after IT raid on Nashik traders. “Asia’s biggest onion market is just a namesake. It is useless for farmers. We have nothing to do with I-T raids and traders ... ....
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IT raids on Nashik traders cool onion prices

Business Line 25 Oct 2021
A series of income tax (IT) raids on onion traders in Maharashtra’s Nashik district has resulted in the prices of the bulk dropping by about ₹1,000 a quintal over the past two weeks in the agricultural produce marketing committee (APMC) yards in the region ... Sources saidsearch operations still continue ... ....
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24x7 rural power supply eludes most States

Business Line 21 Oct 2021
From an average 20.41 hours in 2018-19 to 21.09 hours in 2020-21, availability of power in rural India has marginally increased even as it has gone up substantially in urban areas. In 2018-19 average power availability in urban areas was 21.43 hours, it is now 23.35 hours ... Indian Energy Exchange jumps to all-time high on bonus share plan ... ....
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NCP-Congress defectors want Amit Shah to save their sugar mills in Maharashtra

Business Line 20 Oct 2021
The sugar barons who had left the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress to join the BJP in the hope that the latter would win the 2019 Assembly elections now find themselves in a tight spot ... Global sugar market grateful for India supply ... Mills were not able to start crushing operations during the Covid-19 period ... ....
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No fireworks expected from onion during Diwali

Business Line 20 Oct 2021
Onion prices in the wholesale and retail market will remain stable and there will be no major hike in the price of the bulb crop during or after Diwali, according to traders in Lasalgaon, Asia’s biggest onion market. “There is enough onion available in the market and there is no excess export or domestic demand ... ....
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Structural problems that fuel the coal crisis

Business Line 17 Oct 2021
The Centre and States have recently been locking horns over the shortage of coal and power supply ... ....
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Covid-19: How Maharashtra has augmented health infrastructure?

Business Line 13 Oct 2021
With 65,77,872 total Covid-19 affected patients and 1,39,542 total deaths ( as of October 10, 2021) Maharashtra is one of the worst Covid-19 affected States in India. Fighting with the pandemic the State has augmented the Covid-19 infrastructure in a big way, as per the data released by the Maharashtra government ... Also read. The daily dose ... Also read.
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Number of Covid-19 patients declines in Maharashtra

Business Line 12 Oct 2021
From 6,99,858 active Covid-19 patients on April 22 this year to 32,115 active cases on Monday (October 11) the number of Covid-19 patients in Maharashtra has declined sharply. However, in the last eight months, the State has not yet reported the lowest number of active patients (30,265) it recorded on February 11 this year ... Covid-19 ... Covid-19 ... ....
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Why the sugarcane-crushing season is set to start on a bitter note

Business Line 06 Oct 2021
Sugar mills in India gear up to start the new crushing season this month with a concern. Sugar production has grown at an annual growth rate of 5.6 per cent over the past two decades, while consumption has grown at 2.4 per cent per annum ... During the festival season, it would further go up ... But the sugar industry is not happy with the assistance ... ....
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Mumbai does not foresee Covid third wave, officials tell court

Business Line 05 Oct 2021
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has told the Bombay High Court that it does not apprehend a third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in the city. At the same time, the State government is moving to unlock the restrictions imposed during the peak wave ... BMC counsel Anil Sakhare said, “The work is on. It is going on smoothly ... Mumbai is safe.
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Crop insurance and interest subsidy top Centre’s agricultural spends

Business Line 30 Sep 2021
The actual total expenditure on important agricultural schemes and missions by the Centre has increased from ₹30,167 crore in 2016-17 to ₹41,417 crore in 2020-21. However, 75 per cent of the actual expenditure is on two schemes - Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) and interest subsidy for short term credit to farmers ... Also read. Telangana ... ....

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