Disagree !
1) Set a limit on #MSP purchase say 5Mn tonnes .
2) Ensure all of it is purchased directly from #Farmers via #ContractFarming for @FCI_India .
3) Ensure the contracts go only to #Farmers having 5acres or less land with a total asset calculation of less than ₹10Lakh.
1) Set a limit on #MSP purchase say 5Mn tonnes .
2) Ensure all of it is purchased directly from #Farmers via #ContractFarming for @FCI_India .
3) Ensure the contracts go only to #Farmers having 5acres or less land with a total asset calculation of less than ₹10Lakh.
https://twitter.com/Abhina_Prakash/status/1337712308940771329
#MSP is necessary to uplift the downtrodden small #Farmers & hence should not be abolished . What is necessary is reformation of the system to cut out the #APMC via direct Contracts by @FCI_India under a @Amul_Coop like cooperative model to directly acquire grains from farms .
The govt of #India needs to reform @FCI_India as well , turn it from a PDS feedstock storage to a true #food corporation that can be used to sell FCI branded flour & Rice directly to consumers on market prices under the @kvicindia model .
Expand to other foods as well.
Expand to other foods as well.
This corporation should equitably acquire foodgrains on MSP from all states without the bias towards Punjab & Haryana evident today .
Farmers enrolled should be put under an asset audit every five years with prosperous farmers moved from MSP to market procurement.
Farmers enrolled should be put under an asset audit every five years with prosperous farmers moved from MSP to market procurement.
The government should run this reformed @FCI_India as a profit making entity & a social firm both .With profits being accured from #export sales & domestic sales at MRP .These profits should be poured into improvement of village #infrastructure & #agriculture technology.
The system as it stands today is dependent on Tax revenues for procurement hence cannot proceed beyond a limit. turning the @FCI_India into a food firm like @ITCCorpCom could help expand procurement & build #jobs & sustainability.
It would also help break away from the narrative today that all food corporations are evil by turning the govt procurement machinery on it's head & forming a large profitable Corporation out of it. In the long term this would ensure #Farmers interests most.
While the #farmers are protesting today we must not forget that ultimately they're our people & need to be provided a model that works both for them as well as does not pose an unsustainable burden for any govt of #India .
To ensure that a reformed @FCI_India does not turn into a white elephant the Government of #India should also divest at least 25% of it's stake in the beginning with an additional 5% being sold every 2years till 49% is in private hands .51% controlling stake should be retained.
Disagree : There is a definite need for #MSP as a tool to help uplift poor #Farmers . The problem is equitable distribution in states where farmers are actually poor enough to merit MSP & sustainability of the same without effect on other expenses .
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