New Delhi: Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have been protesting for protesting previous 7 days urgent for his or her 13 calls for. Despite clashes between farmers and safety forces, the demonstrations persist. Residents of the capital and close by areas are grappling with disruptions attributable to the farmers’ dedication to march to Delhi. However, after every week of negotiations, no consensus has been reached between the federal government and the farmers.
In as we speak’s DNA, Zee News anchor Sourabh Raaj Jain analysed the federal government’s proposal to the protesting farmers on the Minimum Support Price.
On Sunday night time, the fourth spherical of conferences passed off between three central authorities ministers and farmer leaders in Chandigarh. Previous discussions had ended inconclusively, however throughout this fourth assembly, the federal government proposed offering Minimum Support Price (MSP) to farmers for 5 crops. However, as we speak the farmers rejected the Centre’s proposal and declared their intention to proceed protesting.
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This proposal, supplied by the federal government to farmers, entails the acquisition of 5 crops—arhar, urad, lentil, maize, and cotton—at a Minimum Support Price (MSP).
– To facilitate this, farmers will enter right into a five-year contract with NAFED (National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd) and NCCF (National Cooperative Consumers Federation of India Ltd).
– Under this contract, NAFED and NCCF will procure pulses, maize, urad, lentils, and cotton from farmers at MSP.
– Importantly, there might be no restrict on the acquisition of those 5 crops at MSP.
However, the farmer leaders in a press convention on Monday rejected the federal government’s proposal and accused the federal government of being deceitful, stating that the Center’s intentions have turn into evident. They alleged that whereas the federal government professes one factor throughout negotiations, it takes contradictory actions afterwards. Farmer leaders emphasised that stopping them from protesting poses a major risk to the nation’s democracy.
