No, legalising the Minimum Support Price (MSP) scheme, as demanded by the protesting farmers, is not a silver bullet to boost farmers’ income. Though the Centre announces MSP for 23 crops, there is no legal mandate for it to buy all such crop outputs. In practice, the government mostly procures paddy and wheat in quantities that would meet its requirement for providing food security to the vulnerable population. Furthermore, these procurements largely happen in only two and a half states – Punja ..
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