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MSP Will Stop Corporate Encroachment in Agriculture, Ensure Domestic Food Security -Navpreet Kaur and C Saratchand

-Newsclick.in A guaranteed MSP system will also reduce public storage costs/wastage if it is complemented by a universal public distribution system. The year-long protest by farmers and workers compelled the Centre to repeal the three contentious farm laws, which were designed to further corporate encroachment in agriculture, on November 29. On December 11, the protest ended but not before the protesters reiterated their demand for a legal guarantee on Minimum Support Price...

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MSP is Insurance Against Anarchy in Future: Economist Sukhpal Singh -Ajaz Ashraf

-Newsclick.in Answers to all the questions you are likely to have about the Minimum Support Price and the controversy surrounding it. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s hope that his promise to repeal the three new farm laws will have the protesting farmers to promptly fold their tents and leave Delhi has been belied. The farmer unions have instead declared that they are not going to call off their one-year stir until the Union...

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Farm Laws: Is MSP guarantee really the elixir that Indian agriculture needs? -Shagun Kapil

-Down to Earth The concept is unreasonable and will be detrimental to the country’s agricultural system, feel experts On November 19, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the decision to repeal the three farm laws, he also stated that the government would form a committee to discuss how the system of minimum support price (MSP) could be more effective. One of the key demands of the protesting farmers is that MSP is provided...

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

-ThePrint.in 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...

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Will a coffee shot fix Chhattisgarh’s agriculture woes? -Rahul Noronha

-IndiaToday.in The state is experimenting with tea and coffee plantation as part of its attempt to diversify crop Has Chhattisgarh woken up to smell the coffee? For long a preserve of the south, coffee cultivation seems to be traveling north. Things started brewing after a few enterprising farmer entrepreneurs started coffee and tea plantations in the state. The Jashpur district in North Chhattisgarh has a coffee plantation; another was set up on...

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