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While there is protest against farm laws, lakhs also supporting it: Tomar A large number of farmers have expressed support for the farm bills, while a protest is ongoing against the reforms, said Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar
A large number of farmers have expressed support for the farm bills, while a protest is ongoing against the reforms, said Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar. “While there is a protest against reforms, lakhs of farmers are also gathering to express support for bills. Today, thousands of farmers gathered in Gwalior for it,� said Tomar while addressing an ASSOCHAM session via video conferencing on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Tomar told a gathering of farmers in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday, even as the farmers’ protest in and around Delhi
continued that, it is the Narendra Modi government, which followed the recommendations of Swaminathan Commission and declared Minimum Support Price (MSP) for various farm produces by adding 50 per cent profit on the cost of the farmer. “The Swaminathan Committee said that the MSP should be declared by adding 50 per cent profit on the cost of the farmer. The Swaminathan Commission presented its recommendations to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in 2006 but the decision was not taken. But Modi government did the job of declaring MSP by adding 50 per cent profit on the cost,” Tomar said while addressing a gathering at Kisan sammelan in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior district…