Urban Mirror Correspondent
New Delhi, September 14: The Lok Gathbandhan Party (LGP) said today the NDA government fresh plan for intervention in agriculture market to ensure minimum support prices (MSPs) to farmers for their produce, which is double of the cost of production, is unlikely to yield positive results as the state governments donot have honest and transparent mechanism in this connection. The LGP said the Union Cabinet’s decision for intervention by way of more procurement, even through private players will not help solve the farmers problem and check rural angst due to poor agriculture returns.
The spokesman of the party said here on Friday that lopsided approach will not solve the problem haunting the farming community. The spokesman said successive governments have never been serious about farmers problems and now the union cabinet plan also lacked direction. The spokesman said “PM Annadata Aay Sangrakshan Abhiyan – PM Aasha†(PM’s food producers’ income protection campaign) is politically motivated with the aim of forthcoming state assembly elections in MP, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The spokesman further said with Rupee emerging as worst- performing currency in Asia the NDA government has also now come out of stupor to discuss the economic crisis in the country on Saturday.
The spokesman said that LGP believed in multi-pronged strategy to overcome farm sector crisis as mere doubling MSPs will not solve the problems. Pointing out that successive governments have so far resorted to tokenism, the spokesman said directionless approached has only worsened their crisis. The spokesman said the LGP has long been demanding total reform in farm sector with improvement in supply of seeds, fertilizers, programme for upgrading land, elimination of middlemen in sale of farm produce and double return to farmers according to cost inputs. The spokesman said LGP also wanted skill development in rural areas so that youth could also be involved in non-agriculture sector to enhance their income without migrating to urban areas. The spokesman said farm sector should be put at par with industrial sector and all equal facilities should be given to improve the situation.
