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Sharad Pawar had one yardstick for fixing the price for the cane
Chandigarh, November 2, 2011
National Secretary BJP kisan Morcha and PSIEC Vice Chairman Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal has accused Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar of being biased against wheat and paddy-growing states of Punjab and Haryana.
Grewal said here today that Pawar had one yardstick for fixing the price for the cane growers of his home state and another for fixing the minimum support price of wheat and paddy.
National Secretary said wheat and paddy were primarily responsible for making the country self-sufficient in foodgrains as these two commodities constituted three-fourth of the grain production of the country. However, the government had adopted a "negative" attitude towards these crops as was clear from the MSP announced for various grains this year. While the MSP for the pulses and oilseeds was increased by 33 per cent and 35 per cent, respectively, for wheat the increase was less than 10 per cent.
The low MSP for wheat and paddy had made these crops unviable for farmers.
If the farmers stopped growing wheat and paddy, the food security of the country would be in peril.
Insisting that the MSP for wheat and paddy was less than the cost of production, Grewal said the Congress led UPA Government had ignored the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission, which had said that the MSP of wheat and paddy should be at least 50 per cent more than the cost of production.
Grewal said his party would organise a two-day workshop of the farmers of North India under the Presidentship of Sh. Op Dhankar National President BJP Kisan Morcha at Panipat from November 26 to work out the actual cost of paddy. Representatives of the farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Chandigarh would participate in the workshop. Grewal Said that similar workshops would be organised for the farmers of eastern and southern India.
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