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Centre failed to deliver on its promises, say farmers' groups -Sayantan Bera

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While trade policy is skewed against farmers, rural schemes lag behind targets, say the organizations

New Delhi:
The Union government has overlooked the spectre of rural distress and gone back on its promises to ensure remunerative returns to farmers, several farmer organizations claimed on Tuesday while releasing a paper on the state of Indian agriculture, ahead of the Union budget.

Titled Green Paper on Farmers, Farming and Rural Economy 2018, the document analysed available data to argue that the government-announced support prices did not cover the cost of cultivation for several crops and that the trade policy was skewed against the farmer, even as flagship government schemes for rural India lagged behind targets.

The paper was jointly released by farmer organizations Jai Kisan Andolan and Rythu Swaraj Vedika, and agriculture policy advocacy group Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture.

“This government not only went back on its electoral promise of announcing minimum support prices (MSPs) at 50% over costs, but also prevented states from announcing bonuses to farmers above centre-determined MSPs,” said Yogendra Yadav, farm activist and member of Jai Kisan Andolan.

“The data shows that actual public investments in agriculture have declined in the past four years... the just released Economic Survey also acknowledged that farmers are forced to sell below costs and agriculture revenues (a proxy for farm incomes) has been stagnant in the last four years,” Yadav added.

Data analysed by the report showed that for seven crops across categories like pulses, oilseeds and coarse grains, MSPs were below the comprehensive costs of cultivation between 2014-15 and 2017-18. For 17 crops, the net returns at MSP were significantly lower during the four years of National Democratic Alliance government, compared to the last term of the United Progressive Alliance government (2009-2014).

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