-Financial Express The extent of asymmetry between the support extended by the developing and the developed countries was brought to the fore in an earlier paper jointed submitted by India, China and some others. India, along with 80-odd developing countries, has sought a revision of the over three-decade-old external reference prices of farm commodities that are used by the World Trade Organization (WTO) to calculate current domestic farm subsidies extended by developing...
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India has a dal problem – open import policy is hurting prices and farmers -Shweta Saini, Pulkit Khatri and Siraj Hussain
-ThePrint.in Pulses, except masur, are selling lower than MSP. Government must review its policy before it’s too late. Introduced as part of the Narendra Modi government’s aggressive measures last year to tame the spike in prices of pulses, it is time to review the open import policy of tur and urad. These pulses, in addition to chana and mung, have been trading below their MSP levels for a while now. With an...
More »Garlic prices lose pungency, farmers irked in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh -AM Jigeesh
-The Hindu With government yet to begin procurement, many are forced to destroy their yield unable to meet even the transport cost Exactly five years after a police firing claimed the lives of six garlic farmers in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur who were protesting demanding minimum support price for their produce, farmers in the districts bordering Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan are up in arms against the State and Union governments for price as...
More »WTO’s MC12 ends, India’s demand on public stockholdings for food grains pushed to 2023 -Himanshu N
-Down to Earth India had pressed for a concrete solution to the issue; but some other countries hardened their positions, resulting in a lack of consensus, according to a delegate The 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) of the World trade Organization (WTO) that began in Geneva June 12, ended June 16, with India’s demand to seek a permanent solution on public stockholdings (PSH) of food grains being pushed to MC13 in 2023. A member...
More »14 crops and a prayer -- why Modi govt’s latest MSP increases ride a lot on hope -Sayantan Bera
-ThePrint.in The govt Wednesday raised support prices for 14 crops by 6 per cent, on an average — the highest in four years. New Delhi: India’s latest price support policy for farmers places more emphasis on keeping consumer inflation in check than reflecting the new normal of rising cultivation costs and soaring food prices following the Ukraine war, a reading of the numbers show. The Narendra Modi government Wednesday announced minimum support prices...
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