{"id":171246,"date":"2021-09-09T00:19:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T18:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=171246"},"modified":"2021-09-09T00:19:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T18:49:37","slug":"msp-hike-by-centre-cruel-joke-on-farmers-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/09\/09\/msp-hike-by-centre-cruel-joke-on-farmers-pilot\/","title":{"rendered":"MSP hike by Centre cruel joke on farmers: Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jaipur, Sep 8 (PTI) Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Wednesday termed the increase in the MSP for crops by the Centre as a cruel joke on farmers and their hard work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This small increase is like rubbing salt into the wounds of the farmer because unbridled prices of fertilizers, seeds and oil are making the life of a farmer difficult, he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The nominal hike in the minimum support price (MSP) by the central government is a cruel joke on farming and farmers&#8217; hard work, Pilot tweeted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Centre on Wednesday hiked the MSP for wheat by Rs 40 to Rs 2,015 per quintal and asserted that the system of procuring crops at support prices will continue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaipur, Sep 8 (PTI) Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Wednesday termed the increase in the MSP for crops by the Centre as a cruel joke on farmers and their hard work. This small increase is like rubbing salt into the wounds of the farmer because unbridled prices of fertilizers, seeds and oil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-171246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}