Reetika KheraSudha NarayananPrankur GuptaDECEMBER 19, 2020 00:02 ISTUPDATED: DECEMBER 19, 2020 10:00 IST https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/msp-the-factoids-versus-the-facts/article33367929.ece The debate on agricultural issues must take into account the changed geography of procurement and the seller’s profile According to one definition, a factoid is “an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as …
How central government’s minimum support price failed marginal farmers
In January, there were 19,872 transactions across 18 states, where the price was below the MSP In 2018-19, just 12% of the 33.6 million farmers who were growing wheat availed of the government’s MSP Today, the central government is intervening to provide minimum income support to small and marginal farmers. This distress intervention might not …
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Not MSP, income support will help farmers: Agri economist Ashok Gulati
TV Jayan New Delhi | Updated on November 26, 2018 Published on November 26, 2018 https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/not-msp-income-support-will-help-farmers-agri-economist-ashok-gulati/article25599220.ece Providing income security to farmers and boosting investment in agriculture are the two things that are needed to help Indian farmers in distress, said noted agricultural economist Ashok Gulati on Monday. “While there can’t be two opinions about the farmers’ plight in our …
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PM AASHA
Cabinet approves New Umbrella Scheme “Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay SanraksHan Abhiyan” (PM-AASHA) http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=183409 PM-AASHA will provide MSP assurance to farmers A reflection of Government’s commitment to the “Annadata” Giving a major boost to the pro-farmer initiatives of the Government and in keeping with its commitment and dedication for the Annadata, the Union Cabinet chaired by …
Leaving farmers to reap the bitter harvest
Devinder Sharma January 19, 2014 A day after Parliament approved foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail in December 2012, a newspaper report highlighted how a big retail company was exploiting both the farmers as well as the consumers: the wholesale cash-n-carry Bharti-Walmart enterprise, the report said, was buying baby corn from contract growers in Punjab …