Modi govt’s paddy procurement at MSP surges by 23 per cent

While misled farmers, pushed by the lies peddled by varied opposition events and the anti-Modi brigade, proceed to protest, assuming that Modi authorities will ‘abolish MSP’ by means of its new farm legal guidelines, the central authorities’s ongoing paddy procurement has surged previous the final 12 months’s complete procurement by greater than 23 per cent.
According to official knowledge, the Food Ministry has bought a file excessive of 487.92 lakh tonnes of Kharif (monsoon) paddy until December 31 as in opposition to 390.56 lakh tonnes within the corresponding interval of the earlier 12 months.
The meals ministry’s official projections present the federal government’s complete procurement for summer season paddy (2020-21) will doubtless contact 74.2 million tonnes, which is a outstanding enhance of 18 per cent since final 12 months as the overall amount procured throughout 2019-20 was 62.7 million tonnes.
Moreover, almost six million farmers throughout the nation have already been paid minimal assist costs to the tune of Rs 9,000 crore for these purchases. “About 62.28 lakh farmers have already been benefitted from the ongoing KMS procurement operations with MSP value of Rs 92,120.85 crore,” an official assertion stated.
Interestingly, whereas largely Punjab farmers are seen protesting in opposition to the brand new agricultural reforms launched by the Modi authorities, the official knowledge reveals that out of the overall buy of 487.92 lakh tonnes, Punjab has contributed 202.77 lakh tonnes, which is 41.55 per cent of the overall procurement.
Other than this, till December 31, 2020, a amount of 75,03,914 cotton bales valued at Rs 21,989.94 crore have been procured, benefitting 14,69,704 farmers. Moreover, the federal government companies had additionally procured 251633.79 MT of Moong, Urad, Groundnut Pods and Soyabean with MSP worth of Rs 1346.76 crores, benefitting 1,35,813 farmers in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana and Rajasthan.
Congress instigating farmers by peddling blatant lie that Minimum Support Price can be abolished
It virtually turns into crucial to notice right here that opposition events, particularly the Congress has been constantly deceptive the farmers in Punjab by sharing some blatant and outright lies in opposition to the brand new farmer legal guidelines. Amongst different issues, the Congress has been instigating the farmers that the central authorities, by means of its information farm legal guidelines, would abolish the Minimum Support Price (MSP). Which is an outright lie as seen by current procurement of Kharif crops as per MSP.
The farmers have been, in flip, agitating on the outskirts of the nationwide capital in opposition to Modi authorities’s farm legal guidelines assuming that the brand new legal guidelines imply that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) can be abolished.
Mandis will stay, MSP can be unaffected: Modi authorities
The central authorities has clarified quite a few instances that they’re neither abolishing APMC Mandis not repealing MSPs. Both the claims are lies. In truth, the Congress, in its personal 2019 election manifesto, had promised to abolish the APMC Act altogether. However, the Modi authorities has solely amended the APMC Act.
Modi authorities has not repealed the APMC Act in its entirety. The new legal guidelines handed by the present authorities offers the farmers with a further avenue to promote their produce moreover the Mandis. The provisions within the payments exempt transactions completed exterior the bodily premises of APMC (agricultural produce market committee) Mandis from any “market fee or cess or levy” imposed by state governments, enabling the farmers to get full worth for his or her produce.
PM Modi, authorities ministers and BJP leaders have asserted time and again that MSPs will proceed. Rahul Gandhi and Congress, nevertheless, have been peddling the identical lies time and again.
Meanwhile, six rounds of talks between the federal government and almost 40 farmer unions have thus far failed to finish the impasse, though the government has agreed to 2 calls for of the farmers, to not penalise farmers for burning stubble beneath the brand new air air pollution legislation, and to proceed giving electrical energy subsidy for irrigation.