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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farm income support, a silver bullet? -Radheshyam Jadhav, Vishwanath Kulkarni, Rutam Vora, V Sajeev Kumar, KV Kurmanath, TV Jayan and A Srinivas

Farm income support, a silver bullet? -Radheshyam Jadhav, Vishwanath Kulkarni, Rutam Vora, V Sajeev Kumar, KV Kurmanath, TV Jayan and A Srinivas

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published Published on Apr 10, 2019   modified Modified on Apr 10, 2019
-The Hindu Business Line

After failed efforts to placate angry farmers, the Centre and various States have launched income-support schemes. BusinessLine reports

Let’s rewind to mid-2017, when onion farmers in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, took to the streets. The protests spread like wildfire to Madhya Pradesh. In northern Karnataka, pulses growers were up in arms against crashing prices. Minimum support prices were not holding up. Flustered governments began to trot out loan waivers as their election promises. It was with the roll-out of Rythu Bandhu in Telangana in 2018 that the tide turned.

Says agriculture commentator Devinder Sharma: “There has been a tectonic change for the better. An emphasis on income support, as against just price support, is exactly what the farmer needs — a basic income of Rs.18,000 per month, equivalent to a Class IV government employee.”

Game changer

The Centre has lost no time in implementing PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana after announcing it in its Budget. As of March 7, Rs.4,366 crore (at the rate of Rs.2,000 per person) has been transferred to 2.18 crore beneficiaries holding less than five acres. The BJP manifesto released on Monday promises universalisation of the scheme.

West Bengal and Odisha have their own schemes in place, transferring ?5,000 each in two instalments. While Rythu Bandhu pays Rs.4,000 per acre (to be raised to Rs.5,000 soon) per season to all landholders (and not tenant farmers), Odisha claims it will target tenant farmers and even the landless, although the means of identifying them is not clear.

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The Hindu Business Line, 8 April, 2019, https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/specials/india-file/farm-income-support-a-silver-bullet/article26773865.ece


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