-TheWire.in The need of the hour is to set up a farmer pay commission, which can fix a minimum assured income of a farmer household. About halfway during the budget speech – while announcing the government’s plans for dealing with India’s Agrarian Crisis – finance minister Arun Jaitley made a rather bizarre statement. Apparently, according to Jaitley, the Modi government has already provided more than 50% margin over cost of production for...
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Union Budget 2018-19: An exercise in jugglery of numbers, say civil society groups
-Press Release by National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM) New Delhi: Calling this year’s union budget ‘just an exercise in manipulation of numbers,’ veteran activist Medha Patkar asked, “When the major decisions like the demonetisation and GST are taken between two budgets then what’s the relevance of the Budget?,” at a panel discussion on the analysis of this year’s union budget with a special focus on Handloom, Fisheries, Dalits, Adivasis, Forest,...
More »Fixing a high MSP not a solution to Agrarian Crisis: P Sainath -Vishakha Chaman
-The Times of India CHANDIGARH: The farm crisis is something more than a minimum support price (MSP) issue, said Ramon Magsaysay award winner and renowned journalist P Sainath, who was at Institute for Development and Communication to deliver a public lecture on inequality and agrarian distress on Monday. The Agrarian Crisis, Sainath said, is no more a measurement of input cost. It is not just the measure of the loss of...
More »CSDS Mood of the Nation Survey, 2018: Crop prices biggest concern for farmers -Sanjay Kumar and others
-The Indian Express One in every four farmer respondents across all regions of the country said low prices of crops was their most pressing problem. The current crisis in India’s farm sector is perhaps the worst in the last 15-odd years. The Lokniti-CSDS survey (Part 1 was published on Wednesday) has a separate section on farmers’ issues, intended to throw light on their concerns and problems. One in every four farmer respondents across...
More »'NDA govt the most anti-farmer in India's history'
-The Hindu Business Line ‘Green paper’ says Centre has not helped farmers in crisis; net returns at MSP in last four years much lower than under UPA-II New Delhi: Farmer groups on Tuesday termed the incumbent National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre the most anti-farmer in the history of independent India and said its budgetary announcements were just grandstanding, with little action or money to back them. Bringing out what they...
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