The All India Kisan Sabha has welcomed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for admitting that the food grain production has been affected by a below average monsoon.
In a statement the Sabha says that paddy cultivation has been severly affected and that the PM had not announced any hike in the Minimum Support Price for the growers, as sought by them. The Sabha also calls for the reccomendations of the MS Swaminathan Foundation on calculating MSP be implemented.
The Kisan sabha welcomed the Centre's move to reimburse 50 percent of diesel cost incurred by states. The National Food Safety Mission and the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana ( National Agriculture Development Scheme) were also targetted for not meeting their targets and failing to increase food production in the country. The lack of transfer of technology and information , especially by the Ministry of Agriculture has come in for a lot of flak.
