Farmers protesting over MSP and farm laws clash with police at Mohali-Chandigarh border
Farmers marching towards Chandigarh’s Raj Bhavan clashed with police at the Mohali border as authorities used tear gas and water cannons to stop protesters.
Farmers marching towards Chandigarh’s Raj Bhavan clashed with police at the Mohali border as authorities used tear gas and water cannons to stop protesters.
“The government has increased the MSP of Kharif crops for Marketing Season 2026-27 to ensure remunerative prices to the growers for their produce,” Vaishnaw said.
A prominent voice of Delhi’s rural belt Chaudhary Surender Solanki on Friday welcomed the government’s decision to resume procurement of wheat from the farmers of the national capital at Minimum Support Price (MSP), something that had not happened for a couple of years.
A war of words has erupted between Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, with the former accusing the BJP-led Union government of being anti-farmer and of directing the discontinuation of the bonus above the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for paddy.
HAFED has termed a news item published in a leading national Hindi daily on April 1, 2026, regarding the incorrect Minimum Support Price (MSP) of sunflower seed mentioned in procurement instructions issued by HAFED, as misleading and far removed from the facts.
Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday said that ever since the BJP came to power, farmers have been forced to desperately wait for MSP, fertilisers, and seeds. Today the situation is such that fertilizers have to be distributed to farmers under police protection.
The Chief Minister was speaking at the State-level Multi-Stakeholder Consultative Conference organised by the Himachal Pradesh Revitalising Rainfed Agriculture Network in Shimla.
Union Minister for Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh, on Sunday, reiterated that ocean health is dependent not only on innovation but also on international cooperation.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved Rs 69 per quintal increase in the minimum support price for paddy for the upcoming Kharif 2025–26 marketing season, taking the MSP for paddy (common variety) to Rs 2,369 per quintal and (grade A variety) to Rs 2389 per quintal.
The procurement of Tur, Urad and Masur under Price Support Scheme (PSS) equivalent to 100% of the production of the state has been approved for the year 2024-25.
