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Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan informed the Lok Sabha that government initiatives have doubled farmers' income. Production has increased with measures like Minimum Support Price and fertiliser subsidies. The minister asserted that farmers' income has doubled, and in some cases, tripled or quadrupled. The government is also developing the cooperatives sector, disbursing Rs 5 lakh crore in five years.
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Iran war: India has brought forward a global tender for urea imports and ordered 13.5 lakh tonnes of fertiliser by mid-February. About 90 per cent of this order is expected to arrive by the end of March, the sources said.
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