"Only A Formality": Farm Leaders On Centre's Minimum Support Price Panel

The farm leaders said the panel should have limited itself to the issue of Minimum Support Price while other issue like natural farming and crop diversification could have been dealt separately.

Farmer leaders from Punjab and Haryana have expressed apprehension about the Centre's recently formed committee on minimum support price (MSP) alleging that the government wants to bring back the repealed farm laws through the backdoor.

Farmer leaders felt the committee should have limited itself to the issue of MSP while other topics such as ways to promote natural farming and crop diversification could have been dealt with separately.

Bhartiya Kisan Union-Dakaunda leader Manjit Singh Dhaner claimed the government constituted the panel as a mere formality.

"Only a formality has been done by forming this committee. Our fight for legal guarantee to MSP will continue. Our demand was for a separate panel on the MSP issue," he said.