Maharashtra Farmer’s Demand to hike cotton MSP @Rs.6000 Rejected
Nagpur-28th June 2013
The day fater NCRB ,crime data
registery of Indian Govt. has given farmers suicides fiougres confriming that
cotton growing maharashtra has reported maximum farmers suicides in 2012 as it
was case in earlier 5 years now today the uninon Agriculture Ministry on the recommendations of
the Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices (CACP) rejecting state Govt.
proposal and 5 million maharashtra cotton
farmers deamnd to hike minimum support prices (MSP) of vidrabha’s main cash cotton,
soybean and paddy has given rejected is another blow to debt trapped dying five
million vidarbha farmers who are under severe agrarian crisis and committing
suicides due to prevailing distress & despair as CACP final hike for cotton
of Rs.100 paddy and Rs.320 to soybean and
Rs.450 to tur which is peanut as per prevailing uncontrolled hike in input and labor cost and exorbitant interest amount paid debt
trapped vidrabha farmers as 90% are being forced to take crop loan from private
moneylenders or financial institutes hence Vidarbha Janandolan Samiti has requested
with union Govt. to relook CACP MSP fixed for 2013 and revised it to for cotton
@Rs.6000/-,soyabean@Rs.4000/-,pluse(Tur) @Rs.5000/- and paddy @Rs.2000 per
quintal in order to avoid another spiral
farm suicides in west vidrabha where main cash crop is cotton,Tur and soybean,
informed Kishore Tiwari of VJAS in
letter to Indian Prime Minister Dr.Manmohansingh .
‘We are shocked as farmers were
expecting realastic minimum support
price for main cash crop like cotton and soyabean in this election year 2013-14
but Babus and corporates have over powered the politicians this decision will
certainly hammer long term prospect of
UPA in forth coming elections but unfortunate part that NDA has no time to
focus the core issues of indian rural
economy allowing the agrarian crisis to spread over the other part of india ’
Tiwari added.
Here is final table of MSP 2013-14
CROP
|
MSP 2010-11
|
MSP 2011-12
|
MSP 2012-13
|
MSP 2013-14
|
COTTON
|
3000
|
3200
|
3600
|
3700
|
SOYA
|
1400
|
1700
|
2200
|
2560
|
PADDY
|
1000
|
1080
|
1250
|
1310
|
TUR
|
2500
|
3000
|
3850
|
4250
|
‘Earlier in may ther was a time time for state intervention when The
Agri.Ministry has sought views of state governments on the issue and has
circulated a Cabinet note among various ministries recommending MSP to get
minimum support prices (MSP) corrected as per formula set by Commission for
Agriculture Costs and Prices (CACP) which is consider complete cultivation
cost, all overheads for cultivation, average market price, and added to it
profit for farmers but maharashtra Govt.
failed to correct the MSP of cotton and soyaben resulting
Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices
(CACP) to govt. ahed with it’s recommemdations whre farmers are left with mercy of market forces and CACP has
protected private corporate and market traders
hence we are raising issue distressed
and debt tarpped 5 million vidrabha farming community which are victim economic
recession after WTO free trade policies by the UPA hence are saved from on
going farmers genocide ’ Tiwari added.
‘These is minimal hike tomain cashcrop
like cotton and soyaben is result complete apathy of all political parties who
are very keen to start agitation demanding
the hike the MSP at the time of arrival
of crop but CACP says they can’t change the MSP at this stage hence this right
time for all political parties and activist group working farmers to take up
issue of cotton and souyaben MSP isuee otherwise farmers are likely to be subjected to market expolilatation forcing
them off load cash in throw away prices forcing them to suicide and this
genocide is continued since 2002 after India adopted open trade policy hence we
are urging Govt. Protest Indian farmers but our demands are ingonred all the
time ’ Tiwari added.