Only MSP can help farmers: MS Swaminathan

Stressing on the importance of the MSP suggested by him, calculated as the total cost of production (including paid-out cost, imputed value of family labour, and imputed rent and interest on owned land and capital) plus 50 per cent (C2 + 50 per cent), Prof Swaminathan, in a release here on Thursday, said it was to the benefit of all to support the agitating farmers in their demands.

“The farm crisis is at long last attracting both public and political attention. A National Policy for Farmers was formulated by the National Commission on Farmers chaired by me in 2007’’, he said.

“Although the report is now over 10 years old, no action has been taken on its implementation, particularly with reference to the economics of farming,” he added.