Farmers to Centre: DAP Subsidy Is Not Enough, Address High Input Cost and Repeal Farm Laws
Farmers in Punjab felt that the BJP s poor performance in polls held in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal had forced the Centre to announce a140% subsidy on the fertiliser.
Representative image of a farmer spraying fertilizer. Photo: IFPRI/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0
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Jalandhar: A week ago, when the Central government announced 140% subsidy on diammonium phosphate (DAP) fertiliser, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders were quick to hail it as a historic decision aimed at improving farmers’ lives.
Farmers will continue to get DAP at the previous price of Rs 1,200 as compared to the whopping increase of Rs 1,900 per bag. But farmers aren’t buying the BJP’s line â they say that farming is not just confined to subsidies on DAP; the major concern is still the high input cost of farming.
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Devinder Sharma
Devinder Sharma is a distinguished food and trade policy analyst, an award-winning Indian journalist, writer, thinker, and researcher. Trained as an agricultural scientist (he holds a Master’s in Plant Breeding & Genetics), Sharma has been with the Indian Express, one among the largest selling English language dailies in India. He travels extensively, spending most of his time in the villages. He also uses his regular columns to disseminate the analysis among the masses. His articles can be read at Ground Reality.
19th Oct 2017