CPI-M demands legislation on profitable MSP for farmers

15 Jun 2017 Evaluate

Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fulfill his poll promise of providing profitable Minimum Support Price (MSP) to the farmers. In a letter to PM Modi, Yechury questioned his silence over the ‘apathy of the state governments’ with regard to the farmers' problem in the country.

Drawing his attention to the farmers' protest that have been taking place across the country, including Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, Yechury asked PM Modi to pass legislation in the forthcoming monsoon session of parliament to provide profitable MSP to farmers. Yechury demanded that ‘I am writing you to demanding that your government introduce and pass legislation in the forthcoming Parliament's monsoon session which not only confers to the farmer the Right to sell at MSP, but also guarantees an automatic annual review of the MSP which will be 50 percent more than the comprehensive production costs as established by the Commission on Agricultural Costs Prices (CACP) for that year’.

He said the current MSP for various crops fixed by the Centre 'barely' provides returns to the farmer. The two government agencies, the FCI and the NAFED, do not buy all the produce of the farmer, even at the existing MSP, forcing the farmer to distress sell his produce at a loss in the market.

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