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Fixing MSP only on the basis of cost of production, without any reference to demand, global market etc. can cause distortions that may take years to correct.
Renowned agricultural economist Sardara Singh Johl takes on the father of Green Revolution, M. S. Swaminthan's idea of raising MSP 1.5 times the production costs.
The FM knew that the media would not spend that much of time and attention on farmers. He knew that on farmers, you need not put your money where your mouth is.
The idea of giving 1.5 times the cost of the produce is good, but with challenges in implementation, achieving effectiveness will require innovative approach.
India’s civil services were once called the ‘steel frame’. But steel is forged in fire, not moulded in a coaching class. While dilution has made the exam easier, it has also made it harder to find the game-changers we need.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
If anyone gives incentives and gets vote it is not success. It is purchase votes. A good and honest politicians will always be preferred if he is competent to rule
1. National Sample Survey Office Report of 2013 reveals that farmers owning up to one hectare of land constitute 69.4% of total agricultural households in our country. Therefore, if political parties, BJP included, wish to do something good for rural India, their governments have to implement programmes which will benefit all those farmers who own less than one hectare of farm land. 2. It is absolutely clear that all our political parties are very good at protecting interests of those farmers who own two hectares or more of land; MSP programme and loan waiver schemes are thus aimed to benefit this class of farmers.
The writer has had his gift from the Congress and ever since has been very vocal in his support for the corrupt relics of the dynasty and their cronies.
Campaign in poetry, govern in prose. The second part of that proposition is what the ruling formation needs to work on a little harder. A little populism in the fifth year is fine, provided it builds on solid work done in the first four. Agricultural incomes have grown barely 1% a year so far since 2014.
If anyone gives incentives and gets vote it is not success. It is purchase votes. A good and honest politicians will always be preferred if he is competent to rule
1. National Sample Survey Office Report of 2013 reveals that farmers owning up to one hectare of land constitute 69.4% of total agricultural households in our country. Therefore, if political parties, BJP included, wish to do something good for rural India, their governments have to implement programmes which will benefit all those farmers who own less than one hectare of farm land. 2. It is absolutely clear that all our political parties are very good at protecting interests of those farmers who own two hectares or more of land; MSP programme and loan waiver schemes are thus aimed to benefit this class of farmers.
The writer has had his gift from the Congress and ever since has been very vocal in his support for the corrupt relics of the dynasty and their cronies.
Campaign in poetry, govern in prose. The second part of that proposition is what the ruling formation needs to work on a little harder. A little populism in the fifth year is fine, provided it builds on solid work done in the first four. Agricultural incomes have grown barely 1% a year so far since 2014.