Government has hiked minimum support price for major kharif crops
Keen to up the tempo on agricultural reforms, mindful of the farmers agitation over the contentious farm laws and the controversial minimum support price (MSP) issue, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the increase in support price for kharif crops for the 2021-22 season.
The MSP for major crops like sesamum, tur and urad have been hiked, with the Minister for Agriculture Narendra Singh Tomar saying that in case of sesamum, there has been the highest absolute increase of price at Rs 452 per quintal, followed by tur and urad. MSP for both have been fixed at Rs 300 per quintal.
In 1926, a seventeenth-century trunk containing over 2000 unclaimed letters was bequeathed to the Dutch postal museum. The letters were closed using an ancient technique called letterlocking, in which the writing paper is intricately folded and secured to become its own envelopes. Now an international team of researchers has virtually unfolded and unlocked the contents of one of the letters and the findings were published on March 2 in
Nature Communications.
At a meeting in Srinagar, the board, chaired by Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar, “recommended 8.50% annual rate of interest to be credited on EPF accumulations in members’ accounts for the financial year 2020-21”, a statement by EPFO said.
New farm laws like death warrant for farmers, says Kejriwal ANI | Updated: Feb 21, 2021 17:39 IST
New Delhi [India], February 21 (ANI): After a meeting with farmer leaders from Westen Uttar Pradesh at Vidhan Sabha on Sunday, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called the Centre s new farm laws death warrant for farmers and said these laws will lead farming under the control of a few corporates . A detailed discussion took place with farmers from Western Uttar Pradesh over the three black laws. These laws are like a death warrant for farmers. If these laws are implemented, farming will go into the hands of a few corporates, the Cief Minister told reporters.