Media Monitor
Agriculture Industry
MSP & pollution: Two sides of same coinedit
The Economic Times – Online
There is a direct correlation between why north India becomes a gas chamber every winter and the scheme of paddy and wheat procurement under the Minimum Support Price (MSP) regime. The MSP is the oxygen that sustains an environmentally hazardous and illogical cropping pattern of wheat and paddy in Punjab, Haryana and western UP. It is common knowledge that if the winter stubble burning were to stop, the air quality will improve. But the knee-jerk and sporadic efforts of state governments-such as a ban on construction, on movement of diesel vehicles, and odd-even traffic regulations-though well intentioned, do not represent a permanent solution. Efforts in Punjab to provide a cash subsidy of ‘2,500 per ...
Govt. Policies
Rajasthan making provisions for farmers’ welfare through agriculture budget: CM Gehlotedit
The Print – Online
The Rajasthan government is trying its best to make necessary provisions for the prosperity of farmers and animal rearers through the state’s first-ever agriculture budget, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said on Friday. The state government has taken a historic decision of bringing a separate agriculture budget which will be presented every year to give maximum benefits to the farmers, he said. While addressing a pre-budget dialogue with farmers, cattle rearers, office bearers of dairy unions and representatives of tribal areas at the Chief Minister’s Office, Gehlot said that suggestions of common people are important for a democratic government.