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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Vikas Vasudeva

Centre offers contract-based assured buying on MSP for five crops; farmers to get back today

The fourth meeting between Union Ministers and farmer representatives to deliberate on their demands, including a legal guarantee for minimum support price on crops, remained inconclusive on late Sunday.

However, the meeting moved in a ‘positive’ direction as the government proposed to give a guarantee on procuring of five crops on Minimum Support Price (MSP).

After the meeting, Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said the meeting was held cordially in a positive direction with new ideas surrounding how to take the work done in farmers’ interest in the last 10 years to be taken forward.

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