Reaping Benefits of Highest MSP And Procurement, Punjab Farmers Still Protesting; Is It Politics?
MSP procurement happened for 99 per cent of the paddy crop in Punjab and 74 per cent of the wheat crop in the state in the last season for which data is available, the most recent government report says. The returns for MSP crops for Punjab’s farmers are also the best in the country. The face of the current farmer protests, Jagjit Singh Dallewal, has been heard saying that the stir is to ‘bring down the graph’ of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as it has been up since the opening of the Ram temple in Ayodhya
