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Sitaram Yechury demands law on minimum support price for farm produce

"Current MSP for various crops barely provides any returns to farmer," Yechury said

Sitaram Yechury
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Sitaram Yechury

BS Reporter New Delhi
Communist Party of India (Marxist) chief Sitaram Yechury has in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanded that the government pass a legislation in the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament to give farmers the “right to sell” their produce at the minimum support price, or MSP, and also guarantee automatic annual review of the MSP -- that is, at least 50 per cent more than the input costs as established by the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) for that year. The month-long monsoon session of Parliament is likely to begin on July 12.

In his letter, Yechury,