Minimum statutory prices for rice, cotton to be increased

The recent proposal of the Agriculture Ministry on the recommendations of the Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices (CACP) to hike minimum support prices (MSP) of Vidarbha's main cash crops - cotton, pluses (Tur), soybean and paddy - has dealt ...

The government's move to get the mandate of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) reviewed afresh by an expert panel needs to be viewed in a broader perspective - one that weighs political populism against economic logic. It has ...

Ashok Gulati, chairman of the government's Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), has blamed the food management policy for the paradox of high inflation in cereal prices and bulging grain stocks in state godowns. This, he said, was being done ...

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.

In a statement submitted this month to the Senate Agriculture Committee at the request of Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and ranking Republican Thad Cochran, R-Miss., the NGFA focused on several potential improvements important to ...

The U.S. House and Senate have moved one step closer to passing a new five-year Farm Bill. The Agriculture committees in both chambers have passed bipartisan Farm Bill proposals that would add billions of dollars to the federal crop insurance ...

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.

Widows of farmers who committed suicide in the Bt-cotton fields of Maharashtra-Vidarbha, along with tribal and agriculturists, are gearing up to intensify their agitation against the introduction of GM (genetically-modified) seeds into the food crops. A ...