Letters: Not an easy harvest

This refers to the editorial "Policy shift to pulses" (June 19). The increase in the minimum support price by Rs 250-275 per quintal for pulses is not likely to inspire farmers to plant more pulse crops. The reason is not the selling price or the technology but the damage caused to pulse and oilseed crops by wild animals to such an extent that nothing is left to be harvested. Hence, the supply gap would remain.

Farmers in plain areas, along the forests and protected areas of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, will not grow pulses and oilseeds. The only solution lies in the elimination of wild animals from such pulse-growing areas.

Kushal Pal Singh Dhampur (Bijnor)

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