-The Indian Express After the market rates crashed to Rs 1-2 per kg, only 565 tomato growers across Haryana received the average price difference payment of Rs 2,136. Kurukshatra: Jasbir Saini shows a message on his iBall mobile phone displaying an amount of Rs 296 credited to his bank account. That’s what the 47-year-old has received as “differential price” on the distress sale of his tomato crop under the Haryana government’s Bhavantar...
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Hike in MSP is political, say farMers -Sreenivasa Rao Dasari
-Deccan Chronicle Seek a state-level intervention corporation. Hyderabad: The latest decision of the Centre to enhance minimum support price (MSP) for 14 crops has triggered a fresh debate on the cost of production and the procurement mechanism. FarMers say that the increase in MSP was a Mere political decision and nothing has happened in reality, while agriculture experts agree that lack of consensus and clarity on support price is further adding to...
More »MSP -- Unfair to farMers in food bowl states -Manjit S Kang
-The Tribune The input costs of only chosen farMers are considered to decide the MSP. This is unfair to the farMers of the 'Granary of India' as their input costs are much higher than those of farMers from the rest of the country. In the Indian system, farMers are the only 'businessmen' who cannot set their own price for their products —foodgrains. Even a 'rehrhi-wala' sets his own price daily for whatever...
More »80,487 trees and counting: Bullet train will dent mango, chikoo exports, say Gujarat's fruit farMers -Aarefa Johari
-Scroll.in The proposed high-speed rail line cuts right through South Gujarat’s prosperous Agri Export Zone, and farMers are not happy In 2007, when the state-owned Gujarat Gas company acquired land in South Gujarat to lay underground gas pipelines, Mahesh Patel lost 130 mango and chikoo trees from his farm in Navsari district. Each fruit tree yielded an average annual profit of Rs 4,000, which meant he lost trees worth Rs 5 lakh...
More »When perception is reality -Sameera Khan
-The Hindu On India being labelled the most unsafe country in the world for women Is India Merely dangerous for women or is it the most dangerous place for women? Is measuring that on the basis of people’s perception of danger and fear any less significant than on the basis of recorded statistics? In light of India’s labelling as the ‘world’s most dangerous country for women’ in a recent global poll conducted by...
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