-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Farmers protesting in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra demand better PRIces for their produce and loan waivers. But low PRIces and loans are not the real problems. These are mere symptoms of structural problems which cannot be solved by temporary measures such as a loan waiver. "While such turmoil appears to have immediate causes, their sources are rooted in problems that lie deeper," says Prakash Bakshi, a former...
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The best of times, the worst of times -Mihir Shah
-The Hindu Without government support, farmers pay the PRIce for a bumper crop they labour so hard to produce The ongoing farmers’ agitation has taken on a shockingly violent form. Discussion has revolved around an apparent paradox: why are farmers rioting after a bumper crop? But any student of economics knows that PRIces fall after bumper harvests, which is good for consumers but terrible for farmers. This is why the government needs...
More »After beef ban, shortage in chicken supply -Jayashree Bhosale
-The Economic Times PUNE: Chicken PRIces have shot up in recent times and have been hovering above Rs 180/kg (retail rates) in big cities for close to a month now due to an increase in demand because of beef ban and Ramadan. High temperatures too have caused a supply shortage across the country, unlike in the past, when the shortage was restricted to a few regions. Currently , the retail PRIce for...
More »Why a PRIce increase alone won't help farmers -Elumalai Kannan
-The Hindu Fundamental problems of crop and regional bias of MSP policy, govt. procurement and access to institutional credit need to be addressed. Agricultural distress is often viewed as a short-term phenomenon in which farmers look for support from various quarters on account of being unable to get a gainful return due to PRIce crash, poor marketing facilities, rising credit burden, increasing cost of inputs and frequent occurrence of natural calamities. A...
More »Farmer agitations point to a deeper problem in our agricultural system -Prakash Bakshi
-The Economic Times blog With loan waivers granted on Sunday to farmers in Maharashtra, and to farmers in Uttar Pradesh in APRIl, Madhya Pradesh’s agriculturalists continue to demand waivers and the revision of the minimum support PRIce even after protesting farmers in Mandsaur were shot dead by the police. While such turmoil appears to have immediate causes, their sources are rooted in problems that lie deeper. Today’s level of food grain production...
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