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M S Swaminathan, agriculture scientist and the father of India’s Green Revolution, has exhorted the government to adopt an agriculture pricing policy, among other measures, to double farmers’ income by 2022.
Swaminathan made the suggestions in a presentation on Friday at a day-long seminar on ‘Doubling Farmers’ Income by 2022’. State-specific recommendations were also discussed at the event. The formula for fixing the price, largely through the minimum support price (MSP) mechanism, which is 50 per cent more than the comprehensive cost of cultivation as determined the Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices (CACP), was first suggested by the National Commission
