UPA rejected Swaminathan suggestion on MSP, says Shivraj Singh Chouhan, triggers row
Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday told Rajya Sabha that the government is still waiting for a report by a committee on minimum support prices for farm produce and the government will take a call once its views are received. The minister shot back, saying the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-led government had rejected the Swaminathan Commission’s recommendation that MSPs should offer 50% returns over costs of cultivation. “On the Swaminathan report’s recommendation that MSP should give 50% returns over costs, the UPA government clearly stated, and I’m quoting Cabinet notes, that implementing this suggestion can create market distortions,” Chouhan said. Heated arguments swirled around the Swaminathan report as lawmaker Suman, in his question, asked if the Centre was going to give legal guarantee for MSPs “as per Swaminathan committee recommendation.
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