India, Feb. 20 -- Offer limited to pulses, maize and cotton crops, key demand on MSP calculation left out

Farmer leaders rejected the government's proposal to purchase pulses, maize and cotton crops by different government agencies at minimum support prices (MSP), on February 19, 2024, saying that it was "not in their favour".

In the fourth round of talks on February 18, 2024, a government panel comprising Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Minister Arjun Munda and Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai proposed involving cooperative agencies like National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED), National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India Ltd (N...