Picture credit: IndianFolk.co, There has been a lot of talk regarding India’s agricultural sector. A major focus has been on the intent of the government to double the income of the farmers in a time-bound manner. The government recently decided to increase the MSP and implement the Swaminathan Committee’s recommendation as a step towards the objective of doubling the farmers’ income by 2022.
An analysis by Dr. Surjit Bhalla and me in a paper revealed that the growth rate of prices, after the implementation of the high MSPs is 11 per cent as against 12 per cent in the preceding […]
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