RSS-Linked Farmers' Union Says Centre's New Farm Laws "Need Improvement": Report

Centre's New Farm Laws: Asked about his views on the Centre's new agri-marketing laws, against which farmers are protesting for the last ten months, Mr Kulkarni told news agency PTI that they need "some improvement".

The RSS-affiliated Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) on Thursday said the outfit will stage a nationwide agitation on September 8 to press for ''remunerative price'' to farmers for their produce to cover their production cost and called for "improvement" in the Centre's new farm laws that are facing opposition from a section of cultivators. The farmer body said the Central government should either bring a new legislation or make changes in the agri-marketing laws enacted last year to add a provision for payment of minimum support price (MSP) for major farm produce. Top BKS functionary Dinesh Kulkarni, addressing a press conference here, said farmers should get ''remunerative price'' for their produce to cover their cost of production, which they are not getting in the existing system. "Remunerative price is cost of production plus profit - that is what we demanding. Remunerative price is the right of farmers, which should be facilitated by the government," said Mr Kulkarni, the BKS's Akhil Bharatiya Sanghatan Mantri (national organising general secretary).