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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Fixing a high MSP not a solution to agrarian crisis: P Sainath -Vishakha Chaman

Fixing a high MSP not a solution to agrarian crisis: P Sainath -Vishakha Chaman

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published Published on Feb 7, 2018   modified Modified on Feb 7, 2018
-The Times of India

CHANDIGARH: The farm crisis is something more than a minimum support price (MSP) issue, said Ramon Magsaysay award winner and renowned journalist P Sainath, who was at Institute for Development and Communication to deliver a public lecture on inequality and agrarian distress on Monday. The agrarian crisis, Sainath said, is no more a measurement of input cost. It is not just the measure of the loss of life but it is the measure of our loss of humanity.

"The farm crisis is something more than an MSP issue. There are other gains to the MSP. I can declare an MSP of Rs 5,000 tomorrow on wheat. But, if the government does not procure, who is going to buy it? There is zero planning for this. So, what happens is, you declare an MSP of Rs 5,000, the farmer goes to the trader who offers him Rs 1, 800- take it or leave it. He is still at the mercy of the trader. The procurement centres are declining in crop after crop. The government is out of the procurement game. You can just theoretically declare any MSP, but then nothing happens," said Sainath, who has so far visited more than 900 households in 11 regions where farmer suicides have occurred.

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The Times of India, 6 February, 2018, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/fixing-a-high-msp-not-a-solution-to-agrarian-crisis-sainath/articleshow/62796434.cms


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