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.
The Cotton Corporation of India Ltd (CCI) has successfully procured 525 lakh quintals of seed cotton, equivalent to 100 lakh bales, under Minimum Support Price (MSP) operations during the current cotton season 2024-25, up to March 31.
Jagjit Singh Dallewal, a prominent farmer leader and the president of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta Sidhupur), ended his indefinite hunger strike on Sunday after 131 days.
India’s agrarian economy hinges on the Minimum Support Price (MSP), a policy designed to shield farmers from the unpredictability of market forces. According to the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO), more than 50 per cent of Indian farmers are in debt, with a significant portion struggling to recover even their basic input costs.
Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday appealed to all state governments to ensure that there is no purchase below minimum support price (MSP).
The wheat procurement by the Uttar Pradesh government for the Rabi marketing season 2025-26 will begin from tomorrow and continue until June 15 across 6,500 procurement centers.
