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New Delhi: Amid furious protests against the controversial land laws passed by the Center, a much more widespread and profound controversy has arisen over the taxes levied on state agricultural markets. Members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have been criticizing the Agricultural Products Market Committee tax in an effort …

Farmers in Punjab’s regulated agricultural markets obtained 30% more price for their products than their counterparts in unregulated and partially regulated mandi in Bihar and Odisha in 2018-19, a new study found that rated the minimum support price ( MSP) as the only risk: Management instrument for growers. The study …

With the head of the NCP, Sharad Pawar, backing the farmers’ protest against the controversial agricultural reforms, government sources noted on Sunday that, as minister of agriculture in the dispensation of the UPA, he had asked the senior ministers to amend the APMC Act. in their states to allow the …

Farmers protesting 3 controversial laws have called for a nationwide bandh on December 8. New Delhi: Ahead of the third round of talks between the BJP-led central government and farmers’ representatives, former Congress Speaker Rahul Gandhi called on all Indians to support his demand for a complete rollback of three …

The Maharashtra government Vikas Aghadi, led by Shiv Sena, on Wednesday struck down a notice issued in August for the implementation of contentious agricultural ordinances, which were replaced by three laws passed in Parliament this month. The move came after the coalition’s key ally, Congress, threatened to boycott a state …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated Monday that the minimum support price system (MSP) and the purchase of food grains will continue under the latest agricultural sector reforms that seek to liberalize agricultural markets. NDA alliance partner and Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar backed the reforms amid protests from the opposition. …

Congress leader Sanjay Jha. (Credit: Twitter) On Friday, Jha had said that Congress and the BJP are ‘on the same page’ on the issue of the agricultural bills, as the Modi government was only doing what Congress had promised to do before the elections of 2019 Lok Sabha. News18.com Last …

Sanjay Jha was suspended by Congress in July for “anti-party activities” (Archive) New Delhi: Congress and the BJP are “on the same page” when it comes to farm bills, suspended Congressional leader Sanjay Jha tweeted Friday afternoon, noting that the Narendra Modi government was simply doing what the Congress had …