Chandigarh April 22:
Deputy Prime Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal demanded that the MSP for wheat was fixed at Rs 1,500 per quintal this season.
He also demanded that the MSP of agricultural products such as wheat and rice, which is related to the general price index, with a mechanism for automatic price determination, incorporated, or farmers will pay the actual cost of production, more at least 50 percent more profit, as recommended by the Swaminathan Committee.
He said that demand a bonus of Rs 200 per quintal, as has been done in Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, amounted to playing fraud on the farmers market. "The basic price must be increased. Dar bonus just means that the MSP for agricultural products will remain unchanged until next year and agricultural costs and prices will only be calculated with only a ratio of annual increase.
This would be to put farmers at a great disadvantage with respect to the reality of the market, "said Sukhbir. Sukhbir further said that the Centre should consider the demand of Rs 5,000 crore grant agricultural diversification of the major agricultural states like Punjab and Haryana .