India Farmer Unrest Over Pesticide Prices Prompts Government Response
21 June 2017 Stepping up efforts to resolve farmers’ unrest in India, union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh has asked the pesticide industry to bring down prices and called for a meeting to press for the reduction of seed prices, according to an article in India’s Financial Express.
Singh said that the government is expected to declare a substantive raise in the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for oil seeds and pulses.
Farmers in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur, the epicenter of the unrest and an oilseed growing area, have been agitating over low prices and the lack of adequate arrangements by the government to purchase them, according to the article.
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