Friday said the new agricultural laws brought by his
government have not come overnight, but were long overdue and
insisted that the existing regime of support price for farm
produce will continue.
farmers demanded such agri reforms for long, he said and
attacked the opposition for misleading cultivators on the
issue of MSP (minimum support price) and APMCs.
Opposition parties, when in power, sat over the
Swaminathan committee report for years, but the BJP-led
government implemented its recommendations in the interest of
farmers, said the PM as the ongoing protests by cultivators
outside Delhi entered the 23rd day.
The new agriculture laws have not come overnight but