An immediate solution could come in the form of assured MSPs for basmati or organic varieties of rice such as PR126, Pusa Basmati-1509, Pusa Basmati-1692, instead of the current widely used PUSA-44 variety, farm expert Indra Shekhar Singh says.
Non-assurance of a Minimum Support Price (MSP) for their produce, low market prices and government procurement plus lack of storage options are driving Punjab farmers to stay away from sowing a third annual crop.