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From Mandsaur to Mumbai and Delhi, in recent times, India’s towns and cities have witnessed a series of extraordinary mobilisations by protesting farmers from across the country. As a result, there has been a renewed policy focus on the two long-standing demands of farmers’ movements: higher minimum support prices (MSPs) and loan waivers. The public debate this time round has been unusually specific — A2+FL vs C2 are now frequently invoked acronyms on TV and op-ed pages when discussing the agrarian crisis. The debate has also focused on a range of policy technicalities from procurement to price-deficiency payments and income
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