Inside the Issue

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Inside the Issue

31 Jan 2024

On the positive side, it may be noted that even in the face of adversities like the global challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the uncertainties stemming from the Russia-Ukraine war, the government has sustained a healthy growth rate of 5.9 percent over the ten years of Modi government, and also maintained inflation levels well within the Reserve Bank of India's targeted band of 4 +/- 2. [...] India is development in India, the country’s agri-food also the second largest consumer of fertilizers support provided by the government has in the world after China, and the fourth biggest played a major role in attaining self-sufficiency consumer of potassic fertilizers after China, in food grain production as well as achieving Brazil, and the US (8 percent of world food security for the growin. [...] Then in the 2018 An increase in MSP by announcement of state election, the Congress promised to bonuses over MSP for rice and wheat inflate resume that bonus, which led to defeat of the the procurement cost for the state and distort BJP and victory of the Congress in the state. [...] In 2022-23 KMS, the now in 2023 elections, the BJP was also forced procurement of paddy in Chhattisgarh and to match the bonus being given by the Telangana were 8.75 MMT and 13.01 MMT, Congress, where, ahead of the elections, the respectively. [...] The farmers bring the produce along with the purchase slip to the silos for the grain to go directly to the storage which is hired by the FCI.

Authors

Rahul Arora

Pages
29
Published in
India