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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Centre, states to discuss how to ensure MSP for farmers

Centre, states to discuss how to ensure MSP for farmers

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published Published on Feb 17, 2018   modified Modified on Feb 17, 2018
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The Centre will consult state governments early next month to set up a mechanism for protecting farmers' income when market prices fall below the minimum support price (MSP), Agriculture Secretary S K Pattanayak said today.

A model law is also being prepared to ensure tenant cultivators get institutional credit and interest subsidy, he added.

"We will call a meeting of state governments early next month to discuss a mechanism so that farmers get MSP," Pattanayak told PTI on the sidelines of a conference on food security organised by the Vivekanand International Foundation.

Stating that the Centre is open to all suggestions from stakeholders, he said the ministry is studying the model adopted by Madhya Pradesh and Telangana governments.

While Madhya Pradesh is paying farmers the difference between the MSP and the market price, Telangana government will offer fixed amount to farmers per acre of land.

In his Budget 2018 speech, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had announced that Niti Aayog in consultation with central and state governments will put in place a fool-proof mechanism to ensure farmers get benefit of MSP.

Asked whether doubling farmers' income is a political target or a realistic target, Pattanayak said, "This is a challenge we are attempting. ...The government has shifted the policy focus from production to income-centric."

Farmers' income could be enhanced more than two times if water is made available in 55 per cent of unirrigated farm lands, he said, and added, "It is easier for us to double income of poor farmers."

In irrigated farm lands, the Secretary said farmers should grow high-value crops in order to generate better rains. For instance, farmers in Haryana have started growing mushrooms and flowers.

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The Economic Times, 15 February, 2018, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/centre-states-to-discuss-how-to-ensure-msp-for-farmers/articleshow/62935061.cms


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