PM recently said govt doing everything to double farmers` income
(WorldNews India)

In his recent speech on the second anniversary of the PM Kisan Scheme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that his government is doing everything to double the farmers` income and had ushered a historic increase in the Minimum Support Price (MSP). In Punjab, wheat and paddy are procured on MSP by the government, and there has been an increase in the MSP of both major crops in the past around 7 years of the NDA-1 and NDA-2 governments. However, a look into the comparative prices of increased MSP vis-à-vis increase in MSP of both crops indicated a different picture: As per the records of the Food Corporation of India (FCI), in 2013-14, when the Modi government came into power, the MSP of...