THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan announced Tuesday the minimal price for 16 varieties of vegetables. Kerala, he said, thus becomes the first state in the country to set a minimum price for vegetables. The scheme takes effect as of November 1. “This would be a great relief to farmers …
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Tuesday became the first state to set the minimum price of vegetables, which would be 20% above the production cost, chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said here Tuesday. The scheme would take effect from November 1, he said. Launching the plan online, he said it was the first time …
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Onion prices ranged from Rs 80-120 per kg in retail markets in different cities, upsetting household grocery budgets which are suffering from a squeeze due to rising vegetable prices in the last month. The high price is expected until mid-November, when the new crop of onions from parts of Maharashtra, …
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[ad_1] The story so far: Koyambedu, Chennai’s popular wholesale market, is now the epicenter of the largest group of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Tamil Nadu. Keeping the large expanding market open in the midst of an epidemic, with little or no precautionary measures, has been costly for the …
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[ad_1] An MLA from the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh started a political dispute when he suggested to people in his constituency not to buy vegetables from Muslim vendors to avoid getting coronovirus infection. In a video, now viralized, Suresh Tiwari is seen as appealing …
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