New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that a committee will be formed to make the minimum support price or MSP system more effective and transparent.
It will also take decisions on the subjects of promoting zero budgeting-based agriculture, changing crop pattern as per the changing needs of the country.
The Prime Minister talked about the committee on agri-related subjects during his address to the nation where he announced that the Centre has decided to repeal the three farm laws.
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After the announcement of repealing the agrarian laws, PM Modi said that the government has taken another important decision related to the agriculture sector.
He announced that a committee will be formed to make decisions, keeping in mind the future, on the subjects of promoting zero budgeting-based agriculture, to change crop pattern scientifically as per the changing needs of the country, and to make MSP more effective and transparent, news agency PTI reported.
The Committee will have representatives of the Union government, state governments, farmers, agricultural scientists, and agricultural economists, PM Modi informed.
The government has been and will keep working for the interests of farmers, he said.
The major announcement on the repeal of the contentious agrarian laws comes as the farmers’ protests are set to complete one year on November 26. To mark the occasion, protesting farmers were gearing up to carry out daily tractor marches to the parliament amid the upcoming Monsoon Session scheduled to take place from November 29 to December 23.
Hundreds of farmers, mainly from Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh, are encamped at Delhi borders since November last year demanding that the government repeal the three agrarian laws -- Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020; Farmers' (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020; and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
Apart from the repeal of farm laws, a legal guarantee on Minimum Support Price (MSP) has been one of the major demands of the farmers.
Meanwhile, talking about the announcement on the committee, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said: “I appeal to everyone to mutually move forward on the issue of farm laws. As far as MSP is concerned, since it’s a suggestion from farmers, PM has announced that a committee comprising farmers, states, Centre will be formed to take a decision on the matter”.
“Farmers should not worry... If PM has announced that the three farm laws will be withdrawn then indeed, it will happen. Even Opposition leader Hooda Ji has asked people to have faith... There is nothing not to trust. If there is distrust, then it is sad,” he added, as quoted by news agency ANI.
(With Agency Inputs)