-The Hindu Business Line More farmers are coming together but are unclear about how to leverage farmer producer organisations to boost their income Over 180 farmer producer organisations(FPOs) are either in the process of registration or have started functioning in Beed district of Maharashtra. More farmers are joining hands to form FPOs under the Central government’s scheme to promote farmer collectives. However, most of these companies are in the dark about how...
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Post-COVID, Female-Headed Households Are Left to Battle Paperwork and a Sexist System -Tarushi Aswani
-TheWire.in Women who have found themselves in charge of a family after the sudden deaths of family members find rules, regulations and laws making mockery of their situation. New Delhi: “He died months ago but the government reminds us of our loss everyday,” says Dipanwita Das, who lost her husband on April 25, 2021, at the height of the second wave of COVID-19. Das admitted her husband to Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital as...
More »How important is MSP-based procurement -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
-NetworkIdeas.org Though not featuring in any of the three farm laws, the Minimum Support Price (MSP) at which the government promises to procure 25 different commodities through different agencies, is a central issue in the standoff between the government and protesting farmers. The latter fear that the implementation of the three laws will end the MSP regime, with the government withdrawing from procuring output at a remunerative cost-plus price. The response...
More »The paltry increase in MSP for Rabi 2022-23 crops will not address the growing farming crisis -Soham Bhattacharya and Tapas Singh Modak
-Foundation for Agrarian Studies blog The announcement on September 8, 2021 of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for the upcoming Rabi Marketing Season (RMS) will be seen as adding insult to injury by thousands of protesting farmers who have sustained their agitation against the three anti-farmer Farm Acts for over a year. This is because the procurement prices offered are not merely grossly inadequate but also because the package comes dressed in...
More »Most farmers did not know of agencies that procured crop under MSP: Report -Shagun Kapil
-Down to Earth Only 23.7% and 24.7% paddy produced was sold under MSP in Kharif and Rabi season respectively of 2018-19 Only about 24 per cent paddy and 20 per cent wheat is sold under minimum support price (MSP) in India, according to the findings of the 77th round of the National Sample Survey report. The data from the report, titled Situation Assessment of Agricultural Households and Land and Holdings of Households...
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