Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in connection with prices of maize and green gram dropping to record lows and demanded to direct National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED), Food Corporation of India (FCI) and National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India Ltd (NCCF) to begin procurement at MSP without delay.

Siddaramaiah stated: “Dear Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji, I write to you with deep concern and a sense of urgency regarding the severe price crash in maize and green gram (moong) in Karnataka, crops that sustain the livelihoods of lakhs of our farmers. The market prices have fallen far below the Minimum Support Price (MSP) declared by the Government of India, creating w

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