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Editorial

Woes of the farmer

IFP Bureau20 Jul 2021

IFP Editorial: We must try to understand the plight of the farmers in this poor state of ours, in recent times not necessarily caused by the pandemic and its restrictions.

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Editorial

MSP for local rice and paddy

IFP Bureau20 Jun 2021

IFP Editorial: Today price of local rice is greatly influenced by the price of imported rice. What the state government needs to do now is to fix a Minimum Support Price for agriculture produce including paddy and procure the same from the farmers, so as to cover their losses during the pandemic.

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Editorial

Agriculture put on hold?

IFP Bureau14 Jun 2021

IFP Editorial: MOMA has been running around buying up vegetables from farmers in the state. But, it is not simply enough to cut the large-scale losses faced by the farmers. The time has come for agriculture and allied departments to put their heads together to work out a solution.

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Editorial

Not a grain in the grocery stores

IFP Bureau23 Nov 2020

What does it mean for individual farmers who have surplus stock of paddy when there are few takers inspite of the heavy investment they had to incur during cultivation given the conditions of lack of farm labour and hike in wages of agricultural workers in view of the MGNREGA incentives?

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