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The committee, headed by former agriculture secretary Sanjay Agrawal, mentioned on methods to “promote zero price range based mostly farming”, to “change” crop patterns maintaining in thoughts the altering wants of the nation, and to make MSP extra “efficient and clear”.
There are 26 members together with the chairman of the committee and three membership slots saved apart for representatives of SKM.
“A presentation was given on three subjects which the committee is required to look at and suggest. What and the way it must be finished, which state authorities has finished higher to this point and the profitable fashions and studying — have been mentioned,” the committee member Binod Anand advised PTI.
Anand, who’s holding the cost of basic secretary at farmers’ group CNRI, mentioned SKM representatives nonetheless weren’t current within the day-long assembly. Niti Aayog member Ramesh was additionally not current attributable to different engagements.
SKM, which necessitated organising of this committee on July 18 after main the farmers’ protest in opposition to three farm legal guidelines and forcing the federal government to repeal them, has already rejected this committee and determined to not nominate its representatives.
Whereas saying the repeal of three farm legal guidelines in November final yr, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised to arrange a committee to look into farmers’ MSP points.
Different members who attended the assembly embody: agri-economists CSC Shekhar from Indian Institute of Financial Improvement and Sukhpal Singh from IIM-Ahmedabad and Fee for Agricultural Prices and Costs (CACP) senior member Naveen P Singh.
Amongst farmer representatives who attended the assembly have been Nationwide award-winning farmer Bharat Bhushan Tyagi in addition to Gunwant Patil, Krishnaveer Choudhary, Pramod Kumar Choudhary, Guni Prakash and Sayyed Pasha Patel. IFFCO chairman Dilip Sanghani was current.
Senior members of agricultural universities, central authorities secretaries and chief secretaries of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim and Odisha have been additionally current within the assembly. PTI LUX HVA
