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Retail prices of nutrient-rich pulses have not shown any drastic decline in the past few months despite several interventions and measures introduced by the Centre to cool off prices.

The rationale and the implications of the now repealed Union Contract Farming Act of 2020 and its implications for farmers is the focus of this article. It highlights some major lacunae in it from a design and small farmer perspective informed by experience of contract farming in India. The article argues for better provisions to protect smallholder interests and the need to

Recently, former union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar and former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had separately met the union cooperation minister Amit Shah demanding a relief in income tax demands worth Rs 9,500 crore at the all India level of which Rs 8,000 crore were alone from Maharashtra cooperative sugar industry.

The police have busted a fuel adulteration racket in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district and seized stock worth over Rs 80 lakh, an official said on Wednesday.

Is 2021 the end of the road for farm reforms?

With an aim to regulate the production, stocking and distribution of soya meal, the Centre has brought in an order to impose a stock limit on it till June 30, 2022.According to the Gazette notification of December 23 for the Ministry of ...

In a bid to cool down domestic prices of soya meal, the government has brought it under the ambit of Essential Commodities Act and also imposed a stock limit till June 30, 2022.Under the Soya Meal Stock Control Order, 2021, issued with ...

The government also notified an order under the Essential Commodities Act to declare 'soya meal' as an essential commodity up to June 30, 2022

With an aim to regulate the production, stocking and distribution of soya meal, the Centre has brought in an order to impose a stock limit on it till June 30, 2022.

The Narendra Modi government will require a rethink and a more collaborative approach, even as the burden shifts to state governments to pick up the baton of reform.