About Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) PMFBY, launched in 2016, provides a comprehensive insurance cover against crop damage or loss arising out of unforeseen events. The scheme is administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare. Crops covered: …
Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) was established in 1970 under the administrative control of the Ministry of Textiles as a Public Sector Undertaking under the Companies Act 1956. In the initial period of setting up, as the only public sector …
About MSP Minimum Support Price (MSP) is a form of market intervention by the Government to insure agricultural producers against any sharp fall in farm prices. MSP is the price at which the government procures certain crops from farmers to …
About MSP Minimum Support Price (MSP) is a form of market intervention by the Government to insure agricultural producers against any sharp fall in farm prices. MSP is the price at which the government procures certain crops from farmers to …
Context: Farmers, largely from Punjab, are protesting on Delhi’s borders. Agricultural scientist Ashok Gulati opines that the real issue behind farmer’s protests is that farmers basically want significantly higher incomes. Gulati was a former chairman of the Commission for Agricultural …
About MSP Minimum Support Price (MSP) is a form of market intervention by the Government to insure agricultural producers against any sharp fall in farm prices. MSP is the price at which the government procures certain crops from farmers to …
About FRP Mechanism Fair and Remunerative Price (FRP) is an arrangement for the price to be paid to sugarcane farmers by the Sugar Mills and is announced each year by the Centre, on the advice of Commission for Agricultural Costs …