Mizoram Governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai on Tuesday said that the state government has accorded the highest priority to achieving self-sufficiency, especially in food grains. Addressing the assembly on the first day of the budget session, Pillai said that Mizoram has seen steady progress in the implementation of centrally sponsored schemes and the states flagship programme - Socio-Economic Development Policy (SEDP). He said that oil palm cultivation area has increased to 26,531 hectare, a rise of 2.34 per cent, by the end of 2020. The governor said that under the Mission Organic Value Chain Development for North East Region, a Central Sector Scheme, Mizoram has covered 13,000 hectare of land involving 14,104 farmers.
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December 19, 2020 01:16 IST
This is to protest against the government’s decision to hike the APMC cess to 1%
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Shankranna Munavalli, president of APMC Action Committee, at an emergency meeting of APMC merchants in Hubballi on Friday.
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Kiran Bakale
This is to protest against the government’s decision to hike the APMC cess to 1%
Merchants operating from the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) yards across the State have decided to observe an APMC Bandh on December 21 in protest against the government’s decision to hike the APMC cess to 1%.
A decision to this effect was taken at an emergency meeting of APMC workers at the Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) in Hubballi on Friday.