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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Modi commends farmers for planting record pulses this kharif -Sanjeeb Mukherjee

Modi commends farmers for planting record pulses this kharif -Sanjeeb Mukherjee

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published Published on Aug 16, 2016   modified Modified on Aug 16, 2016
-Business Standard

Pulses acreage in the current Kharif season is almost 40 per cent more than last year and is even more than the average area covered in last five years

The stupendous increase in sowing of pulses during the ongoing kharif season didn't escape Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s eye. During his Independence Day speech, the PM commended farmers for raising the area under pulses this season to almost 1.5 times more than last year.

Pulses prices have been one of the main concerns of the Modi government as the retail prices had dropped below Rs 100 a kg. However, farmers seem to be responding to the price signals this year. Aided by strong monsoon, pulses have been planted on 12 million hectares, the highest in more than five years.

Forecast if favourable monsoon has raised hopes that India might harvest a record 20 million tonnes of pulses in 2016-17. India might have one of the smallest gaps between pulses production and consumption in recent times, lowering the burden on imports.

Though Modi gave credit to higher minimum support price (MSP), bonus and assured procurement as being the reasons for higher acreage, a closer look at historical evidence showed that the security of assured procurement was the clincher.

The Centre had decided to buy pulses directly from farmers to create a buffer stock of around 2 million tonnes. The purchases seems to have given some semblance of assured income to farmers.

Modi also said some people have told him that use of soil health cards (SHCs) overtime had brought down cost of production by 25 per cent and improved production by 30 per cent through judicious use of fertilisers and plant chemicals.

However, most experts said that there was no scientific evidence to such claims and the Centre should conduct surveys and studies on 1,000-3,000 farmers through an independent agency to find out the exact quantum of benefit that farmer could have through SHCs.

Business Standard, 16 August, 2016, http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/modi-commends-farmers-for-planting-record-pulses-this-kharif-116081500337_1.html


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