Will raise farmers' Minimum Support Price by 1.5 times: FM
Delivering the 2018 Budget speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said the government will increase the Minimum Support Price for farmers by 1.5 times for the upcoming Kharif Crop season. Adding that developing rural economy is the focus of this Budget, Jaitley said that an Agri-Market Development Fund with a â¹2,000-crore corpus will be set up for developing agricultural markets.