Context: Recent farmers protest against farm acts have highlighted the trust deficiency between government and farmers with regards to public procurement of food grains at Minimum Support Prices (MSP).
An Analysis of Farm Acts.
Significance of Public Procurement: mutually important for farmers as well as the government.
Core issue with the MSP-Procurement: - Skewed Procurement: Only 44% of the paddy is procured from other major paddy producing states like Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh.
Way forward:
Conclusion: It is imperative that the government reaches out to the farmer groups and assures them of the indispensability of MSP-procurement system.