Stating that it will benefit farmers, customers and other stakeholders as a whole, industry stakeholders on Wednesday welcomed the government s decision of increasing Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for all mandated Kharif crops for marketing .
Caste, a deeply grounded and lived reality, is crucial in the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. Caste sentiments have the power to turn the election to one side or the other, even on the polling day. Its interplay with other factors, such as religion, language and issues of regionalism in Western UP, often called the Jat belt, farmers' belt and sugarcane belt, does
Congress leaders were stopped from entering Lakhimpur Kheri at Sitapur, even as several people from outside the state poured into Uttar Pradesh to pay their last respects to the farmers.