Setting up of a Minimum Support Price panel (MSP) and the Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) can transform the Indian Agriculture in various ways. Explain (200 Words)
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· Prime Minister announced the setting up of a panel to deal with issues concerning minimum support price (MSP) and the introduction of zero budget natural farming. The move should be welcomed on various counts.
· it marks the Centre’s resolve to keep the farm reform agenda alive despite the resolute opposition by farmers from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh.
· The intent to include central and State government representatives, farmers, scientists and economists on the panel will add to its credibility.
· A reconceptualisation of MSP is a must. Though meant for 23 crops, wheat and rice account for most of the budgetary outlay.
· Clearly, price support is restricted to a region — Punjab and Haryana and skewed in favour of two crops.
· Punjab and Haryana need to be weaned away from rice towards pulses, horticulture and oilseeds, with the help of regulated private trade and contract farming, while the MSP budget can be spread more evenly across regions and crops.
· Above all, farming needs serious infrastructure inputs in the form of storage and warehousing, for which stockholding limits can act as a deterrent.
· The focus in agriculture should be on boosting infrastructure and marketing, and accepting that institutions of yesteryear have now ceased to deliver.
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