- Farmers under the aegis of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha (KRRS) have urged Karnataka government to determine procurement prices fixation policy of agricultural produce.
- KRRS women’s wing leader Sunanda Jayaram led the protest and Sangha members staged a dharna in support of their demand due to :
- depleting income,
- rise in input costs,
- cultivation was rendered uneconomical.
- depleting income,
- The KRRS said:
- No governments since Independence had taken the effort to ameliorate their difficulties.
- government made no effort to provide electricity to farmers to operate irrigation pump sets and
- failed to create an institutional mechanism for timely purchase of agricultural produce.
- It demanded the
- implementation of recommended scientific measures to fix purchase price by the M.S. Swaminathan Committee report on agriculture.
- government should ensure power supply on 24×7 basis to farmers, and
- crackdown on middlemen and agents in agricultural marketing.
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/
todays-paper/tp-national/tp- karnataka/new-price-fixation- policy-a-must-say-farmers/ article6051791.ece
Exams Perspective:- Price fixation Policy of agricultural produce
- M.S. Swaminathan Committee report on agriculture
- APMC Reforms
- Electricity