Farmers are denying the center’s 5-year MSP proposal for cotton, maize, and pulses

On Sunday, a panel of three union ministers, Arjun Munda, Nityanand Rai, and Piyush Goyal, presented the proposal to the farmers during the fourth session of talks in Chandigarh.

And on Monday, farmers were denied the proposal of buying cotton, pulses, and maize at MSP by government agencies for five years, as this decision was not in the farmer’s interest.

After hearing the center’s proposal, the farmer leader, Jagjit Singh Dallewal, said that we reject the center’s proposal as it is not in the interest of farmers. On Sunday, after the fourth time conversation with the farmers, Piyush Goyal, the union minister, said, “Cooperative societies, including the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India and the National Cooperative Consumers Federation, will join the contracts with farmers who grow masoor dal, maize, and urad dal for buying their crop at MSP for the upcoming 5 years.

Further, he said, “There will be no fixed purchased quantity, and a portal will be developed for the same.

Mr. Goyal also gave the farmer the proposal that for the next five years, the Cotton Corporation of India would buy cotton from farmers at MSP.

Protesting farmers have stayed at Khanauri points and Shambhu on Punjab’s border with Haryana after the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march to meet their several demands, such as a guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) for their crops, and last week the security forces were forced to stop them, which led to clashes.

Farmers are also demanding pensions for farmers and farm laborers, the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s recommendation, the reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act 2013, the withdrawal of police cases, justice for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, and compensation for the farmer’s family who died during an earlier agitation during 2020–21