Tag: support price
Paddy purchase at half a percent support price, injustice to the farme...
Gandhinagar, 7 July 2021
The Narmada project does not allow to grow 100 lakh tonnes of rice in Gujarat, but buys half a percent of rice from Gujarat on support price from rice growers.
When Gujarat built India's largest Narmada irrigation scheme, rice production should have been as much as 133 million tonnes if Punjab's farmers grew. But producti...
Modi’s Gujarat farmers forced to sell chickpeas cheaper than the...
Loss of crores to farmers who do not sell chickpeas at the support price
Gandhinagar, 5 March 2021
The central government has verbally stated that support prices will be found when implementing the new law. But by making provisions in the law, farmers are not ready to be assured. An example of this is the chickpea crop in Gujarat. The Narendra Mo...