Minimum Support Price

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the increase in the Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for 14 Kharif Crops for Marketing Season 2025-26.

Praveen Chakravarty failed to name specific crops that the Congress party plans to procure at MSP if it is elected to power.

Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal claimed if PM Modi's popularity graph goes down, he would agree to anything

According to an official press release, the hike in MSP for Kharif Crops for Marketing Season 2023-24 is consistent with the Union Budget 2018-19 announcement of "setting the MSP at least 1.5 times the All-India weighted average Cost of Production, with the goal of providing farmers with relatively fair remuneration."

In Karnataka, the average annual income of cotton farmers doubled from ₹2.67 lakhs to ₹5.63 lakhs in last 5 years.

A farmer named Gurdip Singh from Chak Kalan village said, "I am very happy with this system with money coming directly. I sold my entire crop to government agencies as the MSP was also better this time."

75 lakh farmers in Madhya Pradesh receive money in their bank accounts under the Mukhyamantri Kisan Kalyan Yojana

Tikait wants to take farmer protests to election-bound West Bengal in coming days.

The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI), which is governed by the Union Ministry of Textiles, has reportedly purchased 85% of kapas (raw cotton) marketed for the month of December in Punjab.

As mandis in Chhattisgarh overflow due to bonus announced by govt, both Congress and BJP blaming each other