India, April 5 -- Saying buying crops worth Rs 50,000 crore a year may be a big promise to encash farmer agitation in neighboring Punjab.

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini-led BJP government's game-changing promise to buy all 24 major crops at the Minimum Support Price (MSP)-making Haryana the only such state in the country-has farmers across India jumping with hope of a similar demand. With the Haryana government already procuring 14 crops on MSP-fixed by the union government and the previous BJP-led Haryana government in August last year, announced the addition of 10 crops to the MSP list, including ragi, soybean, Kalatil (Nigerseed), safflower, barley, maize, jowar, jute, khopra, and moong (summer crops). The pr...