Agra isn’t just about potatoes and petha anymore. It’s rising as a kinnow hub and slowly challenging the dominance of Punjab and Rajasthan. Until 2006, no one thought it could even grow here.
Mumbai Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) has reported 3 times the influx of mangoes this March, as compared to same period last year. But things may change next month.
Study by Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee & other scholars from US, UK and Canada found that fresh produce vendors charge high mark-ups but fail to adopt competitive market practices.
Bihar is largest producer of litchi in India, with over 45,000 small and marginal farmers engaged in cultivating the fruit. State accounts for annual production of 3-4 lakh tonnes.
Pear trade in J&K is worth Rs 200 crore, but owing to the curbs in place this year, growers have been able to sell them for just 12.5% of the usual price.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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