{"id":502267,"date":"2024-02-19T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T05:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=502267"},"modified":"2024-02-19T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T05:55:04","slug":"farmers-protest-5-year-msp-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/farmers-protest-5-year-msp-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers protest: Government proposes 5-year MSP plan during 4th round of talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The central&nbsp;government presented a five-year plan comprising the purchase of pulses, maize, and cotton commodities at minimum support prices (MSP) at the fourth round of negotiations with protesting farmer groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following out-of-the-box thinking,&nbsp;a panel consisting of Minister of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Arjun Munda, Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal, and Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai presented the suggestion to farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goyal called the discussions positive, adding that the representatives of the farmers brought up a number of issues during the discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Chandigarh: General Secretary of Punjab Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Sarvan Singh Pandher says, &quot;&#8230;We will have discussions on the proposal by the govt in the next two days&#8230;The govt will also deliberate on the other demands&#8230;We will continue with the &#39;Delhi\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uHXlrQywR8\">pic.twitter.com\/uHXlrQywR8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1759319631062245671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Farmer leaders from the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha and the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) said that they will consult with experts before to making a decision and will deliberate on the Center&#8217;s proposal at their forums on February 19\u201320. Following this development in the negotiations, they also momentarily called off the Delhi Chalo march.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The farmers in protest have requested two days for their forums to debate the government&#8217;s plan, but a decision on their other primary demands has not yet been made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VIDEO | &quot;We cannot call it a resolution, but the government has come up with a proposal (on MSP) in a positive way. We will discuss that proposal with our forums and experts and only then, we will come to any conclusion,&quot; says SKM (Non-Political) leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal on\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PG4rsIOkUH\">pic.twitter.com\/PG4rsIOkUH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PTI_News\/status\/1759318361932964122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The term MSP describes a price that the government sets in order to shield farmers against sharp drops in crop prices. For farmers, this guarantee serves as a safety net and keeps losses at away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After their discussion with the farmers, Union Minister&nbsp;Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal informed reporters,&nbsp;Cooperative societies like the NCCF and Nafed will contract with farmers who grow tur dal, urad dal, masoor dal, or maize to buy their crop at MSP for the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The farmers began their protest&nbsp;on February 13 in order to demand a number of things, such as a minimum price for 23 crops guaranteed by the state, a forgiveness of loans, social security benefits like pensions, and an overhaul of the crop insurance program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The farmers in protest have requested two days for their forums to debate the government&#8217;s plan, but a decision on their other primary demands has not yet been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":502271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[162044,37,98985,7601],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/02\/19112445\/ezgif-1-7b570d2d80-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502267"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=502267"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=502267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->