All the sub-sectors of the agriculture sector registered a strong growth rate in 2022-23 over the previous year. The crop sub-sector grew at 5.4 per cent in 2022-23 against -1.6 per cent in 2021-22.
Italy's National Research Council LaMMA meteorology consortium that 2022 was the hottest year since record-keeping began in 1800, the union Coldiretti released data on Wednesday showing that these unusual weather patterns had taken a heavy toll on the country's agricultural sector.
Reiterating the government’s stand on minimum support price (MSP), PM Modi in reply to a debate on the President's Budget session speech said, “MSP tha, MSP hai aur MSP rahega (MSP was there, MSP is there, MSP will continue). Affordable ration for the poor will continue. Mandis will be modernised. No one should spread misinformation.”
While wishing that the stimulus will succeed in its stated objective, it would probably have been better had the Government chosen to put money in the citizen's hands by increasing Government spending and providing employment to the crores rendered jobless by the pandemic because a supply-side monetarist approach may not be the best way to reboot our economy.
To opt to “loosen” a plank of the platform from which a remarkably successful election campaign has just been mounted…
