{"id":857,"date":"2014-02-14T17:16:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T17:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=857"},"modified":"2014-02-14T17:16:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T17:16:04","slug":"castor-growing-farmers-demand-minimum-support-price-castor-seed-at-%e2%82%b970000tonne-around-us-1130-ton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2014\/02\/castor-growing-farmers-demand-minimum-support-price-castor-seed-at-%e2%82%b970000tonne-around-us-1130-ton\/","title":{"rendered":"Castor growing farmers demand minimum support price castor seed at \u20b970,000\/tonne (around US$ 1130 \/ton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid lower castor prices, Gujarat wing of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) \u2013 a farmers\u2019 body has demanded fixation of minimum support price (MSP) for castor at \u20b970,000 (USD 1130\/ton)\u00a0a tonne.<\/p>\n<p>According to farmers, prices have tumbled to lower levels that are not remunerative for growers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMNCs and their Indian agents to fulfil their export obligation are forcing Indian castor farmers to sell their crop at non-remunerative prices of \u20b941,000-44,000 PMT ()\u00a0(whereas input cost stands at \u20b960,000-70,000 PMT(US$ 970-1130\/PMT) ),\u201d BKS stated in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The farmers\u2019 body has appealed to the Central Government to announce minimum support price of \u20b970,000 a tonne for Castor Seed and minimum export value of $2,000 PMT for castor oil.<\/p>\n<p>Further, BKS has also urged the commodity exchanges and the commodities market regulator \u2013 Forward Market Commission (FMC) to impose additional cash margin on the sell side to safeguard farmers from falling prices of castor seed.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/economy\/castor-growing-farmers-demand-minimum-support-price-castor-seed-at-70000tonne\/article5677745.ece\">http:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/economy\/castor-growing-farmers-demand-minimum-support-price-castor-seed-at-70000tonne\/article5677745.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid lower castor prices, Gujarat wing of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) \u2013 a farmers\u2019 body has demanded fixation of minimum support price (MSP) for castor at \u20b970,000 (USD 1130\/ton)\u00a0a tonne. According to farmers, prices have tumbled to lower levels that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2014\/02\/castor-growing-farmers-demand-minimum-support-price-castor-seed-at-%e2%82%b970000tonne-around-us-1130-ton\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,9,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-castor-india-2","category-castor-oil-market","category-castor-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}