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Samyukt Kisan Morcha rejects Union’s MSP panel, says it includes farm laws supporters

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, an umbrella body of farmer unions, on Tuesday rejected the Union government’s committee on Minimum Support Price, or MSP.

The “so-called farmer leaders” who supported the now-repealed farm laws are members of the government panel, alleged SKM which spearheaded the historic protest against the Narendra Modi government’s farm laws.

Farmer leader Abhimanyu Kohar told PTI news agency that the government has included leaders who did not have anything to do with the farm law protests.

The committee on Minimum Support Price was formed on Monday, eight months after the Union government promised to set up such a panel as it withdrew the three contentious farm laws.

Former Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agrawal will be the chairperson of the committee.

The panel will include NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand, agriculture economists CSC Shekhar and Sukhpal Singh and Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices member Naveen P Singh.

Farmer leaders have been demanding that the minimum support price guarantee be extended to all produce, not just rice and wheat.

The Minimum Support Price is the rate at which the government buys farm produce and is based on a calculation of at least one-and-a-half times the cost of production incurred by farmers. Market rates for many crops are usually well below the Minimum Support Price.

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