When half of all consumers are trapped in a low-productivity agrarian economy, exposing them further to agricultural price volatility would be criminal.
To directly impact the retail market, the government has released a portion of its buffer stock of pulses, repackaged as dals, for sale at affordable prices under the Bharat Dal brand.
Irregular rains in key tur growing areas of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, and the open import policy is discouraging farmers from growing the pulse.
The prices of pulses like tur, urad and moong are hovering near the Rs 100/kg mark in retail and wholesale markets. This is around 10-15% lower than the peak this year.
MSP for mustard is up 8.6%, followed by masur (7.84%) and gram (2.54%). Wheat MSP has just risen by 2.02%, as govt attempts to encourage crop diversification.
The current Iran war has laid bare a fundamental reality: 20 per cent of global energy trade cannot afford to rely on a single artery, no matter how resilient and cost-effective.
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
You have forgotten the deal that Modi govt gave before 2024 elections for procuring pulses for next 5 years, whrn Punjab farmers started a new protest. Remember or did you forget?
Congress always opposes reforms and crop diversification and then cries crocodile tears.
Congress’ obsession with farmers neither made the farmers prosper nor made the country a developed one. It’s socialist policies weakened them and made them dependent on the state.
This critique suffers from epistemological insolvency, conveniently omitting that the proposed imports are strictly a deficit-mitigation mechanism, not an indiscriminate deluge. Protectionism fosters atrophy, not resilience; witness how our Luddite aversion to GMOs inverted our cotton trade surplus, while technological obsolescence has suppressed our apple yields to a fraction of Australia’s. The Congress party continues to valorize rhetoric over empiricism—a demagoguery that already scuttled vital agrarian reforms. Rather than peddling misinformation to derail a strategic pact, the author ought to articulate precisely what the opposition’s alternative roadmap would entail.
You have forgotten the deal that Modi govt gave before 2024 elections for procuring pulses for next 5 years, whrn Punjab farmers started a new protest. Remember or did you forget?
Congress always opposes reforms and crop diversification and then cries crocodile tears.
Congress’ obsession with farmers neither made the farmers prosper nor made the country a developed one. It’s socialist policies weakened them and made them dependent on the state.
This critique suffers from epistemological insolvency, conveniently omitting that the proposed imports are strictly a deficit-mitigation mechanism, not an indiscriminate deluge. Protectionism fosters atrophy, not resilience; witness how our Luddite aversion to GMOs inverted our cotton trade surplus, while technological obsolescence has suppressed our apple yields to a fraction of Australia’s. The Congress party continues to valorize rhetoric over empiricism—a demagoguery that already scuttled vital agrarian reforms. Rather than peddling misinformation to derail a strategic pact, the author ought to articulate precisely what the opposition’s alternative roadmap would entail.