Relief for Karnataka maize growers

Karnataka has made the decision to extend a funds aid of ₹5,000 for each individual maize grower in the Condition. Maize growers are reeling beneath the influence of low price ranges soon after the unfold of coronavirus has strike the use of poultry goods. The go will benefit ten lakh maize growers in the Condition, according to the Main Minister BS Yeddyurappa, who declared the aid measure that would price the Condition exchequer ₹500 crore.

The Condition experienced recently declared that about twenty,000 tonnes of maize would be procured at the bare minimum aid selling price of ₹1,760/quintal. Modal maize price ranges are ruling in between ₹1, 200 and ₹1,five hundred throughout several markets in the Condition.