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The plan is to mobilise 70,000-80,000 farmers from Punjab, Haryana, UP; on February 16, Samyukta Kisan Morcha, led by CPM’s peasants’ wing All India Kisan Sabha, has called a Grameen Bandh across India
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.
Punjab Advocate General Gurminder Singh Kharbanda had suggested to the court that paddy cultivation must be replaced by millets and MSP should be given for other crops.