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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.
Farmers in a flooded camp on Delhi’s Singhu border
BATHINDA: With the second wave of Covid-19 wreaking havoc across India and questions being raised on assembly of people everywhere, farm groups have vehemently denied that gathering of people is contributing to rising number of cases.
Though it is said the second wave started in the middle of February in Maharashtra, a publication has stated that the second wave originated from the farmers’ protest in early January with Punjab and Haryana becoming the hotspots.
The organisations, reacting to a claim in one publication that the second wave originated at farmers’ protest, said in that case it would have first caused devastation at the stir sites. There is no evidence of any Covid-19 case at the protest sites, despite large number of persons gathering there, they have claimed. Earlier, nearly 400 farmers had died due to various reasons at protests but after the advent of second wave, the death rate has declined at the protest