Uttar Pradesh cabinet hikes wheat MSP by ₹160/quintal
A year before the state assembly elections, the Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Monday approved the “highest-ever increase” of ₹160 per quintal in the minimum support price (MSP) for wheat, raising it to ₹2585 per quintal. Uttar Pradesh cabinet meeting, chaired by chief minister Yogi Adityanath, in Lucknow on Monday. (SOURCED) The approval to the wheat procurement policy for 2026-27 is an obvious bid to increase farmers’ income. Minister for agriculture Surya Pratap Shahi said the new MSP was in accordance with the one announced by the Union government. The state cabinet, chaired by chief minister Yogi Adityanath, also gave its nod to the Uttar Pradesh Private Business Park Development Scheme-2025 to develop plug and play (ready to use) private business parks and another one to provide industrial sheds to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). These were among 35 of the 37 proposals that the cabinet cleared at its meeting. Giving details of the wheat procurement decision, Shahi said the food and civil supplies department had initially set a target of 3 million metric tonnes …