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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Haryana’s deficit payment scheme still a work in progress, I learnt in my mandi visits -Yogendra Yadav

Haryana’s deficit payment scheme still a work in progress, I learnt in my mandi visits -Yogendra Yadav

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published Published on Nov 3, 2021   modified Modified on Nov 5, 2021

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Farmers, farm leaders, economists and policy makers would do well to study this scheme carefully as it shows a possible path to the future.

Anew model? Or another fiasco in the making? I kept asking my colleagues and myself as we travelled across the semi-arid bajra growing belt of south Haryana. We stopped at a few mandis — Rewari, Kanina, Ateli, Narnaul, Dadari and Bhiwani — and spoke to farmers, adhatiyas as well as mandi officials to get a sense of how Haryana government’s new scheme of deficit payment to ensure Minimum Support Price (MSP) to the farmers has fared on the ground. I came back conflicted.

Something big is at stake here, far beyond bajra or Haryana.

This experiment impinges upon the larger issue of how to ensure that the farmers get at least a minimum assured return on their hard work, investment and risk. The government routinely announces MSP for 23 crops. This remains a mirage for farmers because the official “minimum” remains a dream in all except the few crops like wheat and paddy, and that too in a few states, where the government does large-scale procurement. How do we ensure MSP to the vast majority of farmers? The government cannot possibly purchase the entire produce of all these 23 crops. Such an exercise would mean virtual take-over of the entire agricultural marketing by the government, involving massive bureaucracy, impossible web of red-tape and, of course, corruption that would leave the government over-stretched and farmers unhappy. The anti-farmer lobby has used this argument, laced with fanciful data, to show why the demand for legal entitlement to MSP is “impractical”.

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ThePrint.in, 3 November, 2021, https://theprint.in/opinion/haryanas-deficit-payment-scheme-still-a-work-in-progress-i-learnt-in-my-mandi-visits/761153/?fbclid=IwAR3rD41_p5vIDCVjwZILOaLYvd_2oyFsPqxObVkvRjUNrslEhXofLPwH3sw


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