Minimum statutory prices for rice, cotton to be increased

Sugarcane cultivators from the State have urged the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) to fix the procurement price for sugarcane at Rs. 3,500 a tonne. Kurubur Shanthakumar, president, Karnataka State Sugarcane Cultivators' ...

Ashok Gulati chairman of the commission on agricultural costs and prices, T Nanda Kumar, former agriculture secretary and Sonal Varma chief economist at Nomura discuss the nuances of the Food Security Bill on Indianomics.

A study by the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices shows that growth created more jobs than make-work schemes like MGNREGA

In the last few weeks, the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) has offered some sensible advice to the government on policy issues concerning the country's farm economy.

The government recently decided to re-examine the mandate of its farm produce price-setting body, the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), on a complaint from a section of farmer bodies of the Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) not being realistic.

In election year, the government has initiated a move to examine the existing mandate of the Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices (CACP) for the first time since 2005 and revisit its methodology to calculate the Minimum Support Price (MSP).

The Government is considering a hike in urea prices as well as raising fixed costs for nearly 30 units producing urea in the country. A would translate into a higher "retention price", on which the subsidy payable to urea manufacturers is ...

Electricity prices for all businesses in agricultural production and logistics will be cut from June 1, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced on Wednesday. Pork and vegetable producers will now enjoy the same electricity ...

Competitiveness increase in the market at the expense of reduction in cost price of the highest quality products and of improvement the labor conditions of their workers became the main priority of modern agricultural manufacture. Investment in the ...