NEW DELHI: Parliament on Monday handed a invoice to repeal the three farm legal guidelines, however the agitation that began in November final yr remains to be not over.
The protesting farmers now need MSP, which is the minimal assist worth, to be legalised.
For farmers, MSP is a security web that assures minimal worth to them for his or her produce.
Over time the federal government has fastened MSP for 23 crops. Nevertheless, the majority of procurement is restricted to wheat and paddy.
Whereas the farmers at the moment are demanding a legislation to ensure MSP, it’s attention-grabbing to notice that in no way farmers are conscious of the protection web offered by the federal government to them.
Because the desk beneath exhibits, it is just the sugarcane and paddy farmers who’re most privy to MSP in each the cropping seasons, Rabi and Kharif.
The protesting farmers now need MSP, which is the minimal assist worth, to be legalised.
For farmers, MSP is a security web that assures minimal worth to them for his or her produce.
Over time the federal government has fastened MSP for 23 crops. Nevertheless, the majority of procurement is restricted to wheat and paddy.
Whereas the farmers at the moment are demanding a legislation to ensure MSP, it’s attention-grabbing to notice that in no way farmers are conscious of the protection web offered by the federal government to them.
Because the desk beneath exhibits, it is just the sugarcane and paddy farmers who’re most privy to MSP in each the cropping seasons, Rabi and Kharif.
As is clear majority of the farmers aren’t privy to MSP.
Solely 4.3% of farmers who develop Ragi within the Rabi season are privy to MSP. This determine stands at 11% for farmers who develop coconut.
Equally within the Kharif season, solely 12% of farmers rising coconut and 14.3% of farmers rising Jowar find out about MSP.
Among the many farmers who’re conscious in regards to the MSP, if we have a look at the proportion of them who know in regards to the technique of procurement or who’ve really bought their produce to procurement businesses remains to be decrease.
Supply: Times of India