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The government is taking steps to control inflation and meet the demand and check the prices of tomatoes in India

Nirmala Sitharaman Finance Minister (FM) informed the Parliament that the government is importing tomatoes from Nepal due to a record-high spike in prices in the country.

The minister said that the government is taking steps to control inflation and meet the demand and check the prices of tomatoes in India, it has decided to import them from its neighbour, Nepal. Sitharaman was participating in a debate on the no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha. As per her, the government has removed import restrictions and the first lot of tomatoes from Nepal will reach Varanasi, Kanpur, Lucknow this week.

Sitharaman also said that through the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED) and other cooperative societies, the government has been procuring tomatoes from Maharashtra and Karnataka. These tomatoes are then distributed in Delhi-NCR, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Rajasthan at subsidised rates. The National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India Ltd. has distributed 8.84 lakh kg of tomatoes in the aforementioned states. The finance minister added that the wholesale prices of tomatoes in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are already coming down.

Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Odisha, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Tamil Nadu are the major tomato-producing states in the country. These states account for 91 per cent of the total production of the country, said FM.

The government is taking steps to control

Indira Gandhi Agricultural University has signed an agreement with Rubber Research Institute Kottayam

Raipur’s Indira Gandhi Agricultural University has signed an agreement with Rubber Research Institute Kottayam, Kerala. Agricultural Research Centre will do experiments, on the cultivation of rubber in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.

According to, the Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries, the Rubber Institute will give plant material, manure fertilisers, medicines and labour expenses to the Indira Gandhi Agricultural University for experimental cultivation in Bastar for a period of seven years.
Indira Gandhi Agricultural University will be doing plant management and it will provide the necessary technical guidance for rubber cultivation and rubber extraction techniques. Scientists from Rubber Research Institute, Kottayam have found the soil, climate and geo-ecology in Bastar are suitable for rubber cultivation.

Indira Gandhi Agricultural University has signed an