{"id":1498,"date":"2015-03-18T09:56:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T09:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2015-03-18T09:56:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T09:56:47","slug":"bks-seeks-support-price-for-castor-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/03\/bks-seeks-support-price-for-castor-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"BKS Seeks Support Price for Castor Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BKS, an RSS affiliated farmers\u2019 group have urged the centre to institute a minimum support price (MSP) of Rs. 60,000\/tonne for castor seeds.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-43 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Castor-Oil-Seeds-Traders1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Castor Seeds\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cost of cultivating castor is estimated at Rs. 6000 \u2013 7000\/quintal.\u00a0In\u00a0the last two months, the castor cultivation prices have dropped from Rs. 4000 to Rs. 3600\/-. Such low prices export sales depress the castor seed prices and also affect the castor seed growers who are denied remunerative returns. The group has also sent a letter stating the estimates of farmers\u2019 losses due to non-procurement of food grains and damage from rain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/industry-and-economy\/agri-biz\/bks-seeks-support-price-for-castor-seeds\/article6986528.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BKS, an RSS affiliated farmers\u2019 group have urged the centre to institute a minimum support price (MSP) of Rs. 60,000\/tonne for castor seeds. The cost of cultivating castor is estimated at Rs. 6000 \u2013 7000\/quintal.\u00a0In\u00a0the last two months, the castor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2015\/03\/bks-seeks-support-price-for-castor-seeds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,71,11],"tags":[64,92],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-castor-india-2","category-castor-prices","category-castor-seeds","tag-castor-seeds-price","tag-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}