Farm Support Programme News Today

Agriculture Ministry announces new Food Security and Livelihood Programs to assist farmers in the current financial year

18706 2 Devinder Sharma Food & Agriculture Specialist Addressing the Oxford Real Farming Conference last week, I said that the iconic farmers movement in India will have tremendous global implications. If the Indian farmers succeed in making Minimum Support Price (MSP) a legal right, it will cause major disruptions in international trade, with focus shifting from trade competitiveness to first ensuring that the livelihoods of farmers — the primary producers — everywhere in the world become ...