How to Strike a Balance Between Consumer Prices and Farmers' Income?

2,042 views · Published 7 June 2017 · 20:02 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: NDTV India · 2017 · News & Politics

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Siraj Hussain, Senior Fellow at ICRIER says that it is not economically viable for any government to increase MSP of all agricultural products and buy all the food items directly from farmers. He adds that governments give a higher priority to controlling food inflation and hence impose several restrictions that curtail the ability of farmers to make substantial profits from their agricultural produce. On Prime Time, we discuss whether governments have been repeatedly neglecting the needs of farmers and failing to fulfil their needs. (Audio in Hindi)

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