| schema:text
| - Fact Check: No grain of truth in photo announcing Rs 525/quintal bonus for wheat farmers
A screengrab of a TV news report claims that the Centre has announced a bonus of Rs 525/quintal for wheat farmers. The India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) found the claim in the post to be misleading.
Listen to Story
India Today Fact Check
The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare has made no such announcement. Nor did ABP News carry such a report. The screenshot appeared digitally altered. It was used as a thumbnail for a YouTube channel on farming news.
A screengrab of a TV news report claiming the Union government announced a bonus for wheat farmers has been making the rounds on social media.
Many shared the grab from ABP News that said, "Modi government takes a big decision regarding wheat farmers." It also said, "Wheat farmers will receive a bonus of Rs. 525 per quintal," and, "Low wheat production led to the decision."
The TV news report's screengrab also contained a photo of Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar.
The India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) found that the claim in this post was misleading. The Union government did not announce a bonus for the wheat farmers. The screengrab was digitally altered.
AFWA PROBE
While investigating the claim, we first looked for news reports on bonuses announced by the government for wheat farmers. However, we did not find anything relevant.
A Business Standard report dated September 8, 2021, stated that the government increased the minimum support price (MSP) for wheat by 2.03 per cent for the financial year 2022-23.
From Rs. 1,975 per quintal in 2021-22, the MSP rose to Rs. 2,015 per quintal for the financial year 2022-23.
The Press Information Bureau had a press release regarding this announcement on the same date.
SOURCE OF THE VIRAL IMAGE
We conducted a reverse search of the image and found a YouTube channel called "Anaj Mandi Expert" had used it as the thumbnail for a video it shared on March 16, 2022.
The video made the same claim mentioned in the thumbnail but did not cite any sources. It also did not inform how farmers could avail this bonus. The comments section of the video was full of people refuting this claim.
We also did not find any such report on the website or the YouTube channel of ABP News.
Thus, we concluded that the photo making the rounds on social media contains a misleading claim.
(With inputs from Yash Mittal)
Please share it on our at 73 7000 7000
You can also send us an email at factcheck@intoday.com
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)