Further hike in MSP for wheat will worsen the crisis
With a crisis brewing in most wheat-growing regions of the country, it is time the government mustered adequate political will and took hard decisions to remove distortions caused in the MSP for the crop, instead of going for populist pricing measures.

Food processing to be revamped
The Union ministry of agriculture is all set to herald radical reforms in the regulatory regime of the food processing sector, by bringing in a single enactment covering all aspects connected to food products, replacing the existing multiple laws.

Rice exporters plead with Centre for continuance of tax exemption
AIREA has written to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee pleading they should continue to enjoy tax exemption, under Section 80 HHC of the Income Tax (IT) Act.


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