-TheWire.in The Price Deficiency Payment Scheme will likely exclude small and marginal Farmers, disincentivise efficient Farmers and does not have inadequate registration of Farmers. The Narendra Modi government announced three new schemes for Farmers under one umbrella scheme named PM-AASHA, aimed at ensuring minimum guarantee prices for the farm produce. These three schemes – Price support scheme (PSS), Pilot of Private Procurement & Stockist Scheme (PPPS) and Price Deficiency Payment Scheme (PDPS)...
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-The Hindu Business Line The AASHA scheme promises better returns on crops, but implementation is the key With the decades-old minimum support price (MSP) system failing to address the crisis at the farm gate, the three schemes that are a part of AASHA – the Price Support Scheme (PSS) itself, the Price Deficiency Payment Scheme (PDPS) and the Pilot of Private Procurement and Stockist Scheme (PPPS) – point to an innovative, MSP-plus...
More »Drowning in sweetness -Ashok Gulati
-The Indian Express The sugar industry faces a crisis of plenty. Unless bold steps are taken quickly, it can prove costly to the Modi government. The sugar sector is heading for a major crisis of plenty. India will begin the sugar season (October to September) with a sugar stock of about 10 million metric tonnes (MMT). The industry’s production estimate for 2018-19 is 35.5 MMT, up from 32.3 MMT in 2017-18, against...
More »Will the new scheme give Aasha to Farmers? -Devinder Sharma
-The Hindu Business Line Hiking MSPs is not enough. The govt must work out a mechanism to provide income transfers to Farmers The launch of a new umbrella scheme — Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan (PM-AASHA) — last week, is a response to the growing Farmers’ anger over the last few years. Farmers have been demanding an assured income to emerge out of the continuing agrarian crisis. With open market prices...
More »After the deluge, Kerala's next crisis: Dying earthworms -KR Rajeev
-The Times of India KOZHIKODE: Farmer Sanmathy Raj was walking to his field last week when he stopped short. Dead earthworms covered the ground. “I couldn’t walk without stepping on them,” he said. It’s normal for earthworms to creep out of the soil after rains, but Kolavayal, Raj’s village in Kerala’s Wayanad district, has been dry since flood waters receded. Baffling as the scene was, mass earthworm deaths have also been reported...
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