Food should never be left in hands of middleman. Maybe you are not familiar with the dark days pre 2014 when grain prices would fluctuate with season .
There is no long term 'disaster' in play when the govt is projecting a fiscal deficit of 4.4% and even that is likely a very conservative estimate.
And here, I was trying to take you seriously.
MSPs are considered export subsidies (illegal in global trade). And the crops (wheat etc) are of lower quality that cannot match international products on a competitive market. This is precisely why I wrote that those crops just cannot be exported - in absence of a free food scheme, they will either rot in a godown or be offloaded at distilleries for dirt cheap prices.
Now you can question the MSP system but the incumbent is already moving away from the existing system in a gradual fashion. Crops that are procured outside the purview of PDS/MSP are already exported and not at all affected by the government's free food schemes.
The kind of fact free rubbish you are peddling on a public forum is astounding.
They have been gradually cutting down on agri subsidies and moving in favor of a more open market for quite a while now.
How do you expect to be taken seriously with takes like these?
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
My goodness, the absolute height of desperation! Such articles can be made on every state administration (including Modi's Gujarat) we have had in the past 30 years. Tweaking, rerouting, cutting down on govt schemes is a routine affair.MP has been cash strapped for a while. It also relies heavily on Central grants.
Battling funds crisis, Madhya Pradesh govt hits pause on 370 schemes | Bhopal News - Times of India
The cash-strapped Madhya Pradesh government has put at least 370 schemes on hold this fiscal, including those concerning schools, IT industry, farm loans, metro rail and even Pradhan Mantri Sadak Yojana.
Both are complementary. Strategic reserves stock need to be phaed out from time to time and best way to do it is put it to ration scheme
Even the RBIwallahs are sounding alarm bells;
RBI article raises alarm over welfare-centric state budget sops, urges focus on infra - CNBC TV18
Sops in states’ 2024-25 Budgets may hinder critical infrastructure investments, says RBI article. Fiscal space exists for boosting capex in FY25 H2, aided by robust tax revenues and restrained spending, it added.www.cnbctv18.com
It does not hurt to remain cautious. The deficit nos are in public domain, btw, I wonder why you keep ignoring them and continue to desperately Google search for articles to lend credence to some preconceived notions that you won't change no matter what data says.
Irrelevant. Does not matter. They can afford higher deficits with no additional impact on the fiscal/budgetory side.
The agri subsidy budget has been cut down. It is mathematically impossible to hand out more money to these 'annadatas' - it does not matter what the 'official' MSPs are. Gormint is making a fool out of these 'annadatas'.
Their economies are struggling cuz the cheap russkie energy has dried up and they let chongs take over/flood their domestic markets with little pushback. And above all, they could afford those 'freebies' cuz Uncle Sam used to take care of their defence needs which is no longer the case.
They had those safety nets cuz Uncle Sam allowed them to have them. It had little to do with their economic mess.
Either way, I would be happy if goras continue to get rekt so refraining from making any further comments on this.
theorg.com
This gormint went all guns blazing on 'muh infra' and paid the price - even overestimating the RoI in the process. This is not my opinion btw, the likes of Neelkanth Mishra and Sajjid Chinoy are saying this.
And their capex push has slowed down since because they just do not have the state capacity to push more meaningful capacity right now. In other words, their ability to push capex is also limited.
The result?
The incumbent is sitting atop a giant pile of cash which they refuse to channel back into the economy. Heck, forget channeling it back - they won't even cut fuel prices despite crude hitting US$ 60 a barrel in international markets.
A govt that just cannot know how to spend should hand that money back and keep the economy flowing. It is not a cope to demand it as such. No amount of word salad infra kanging will change this ground reality.
Do not just type nonsense for the sake of it.
Fertilizer subsidy has been slashed. Agri insurance schems have been slashed. A number of decremental changes in food subsidies/procurement programmes.
Union Budget 2025: Allocations for key agriculture schemes see dip
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has termed the agriculture sector as the first engine of growth and announced schemes such as the Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana - Developing Agri Districts Programme – a scheme that is likely to benefit 1.7 crore farmers in 100 districts with...www.thehindu.com
Budget 2023-24: Agriculture ignored, schemes for ensuring MSP-based procurement nearly ‘closed down’
The agriculture sector was expected to be on a high-priority list but it has been ignored in the Union Budget 2023-24, with even flagship government schemes recwww.downtoearth.org.in
For all your rr over 'free food' schemes, even the food subsidy budget has been brought down to Rs 2 lakh crore from about Rs 2.8 lakh crore in only 4 years. If the food subsidies are cut, how will the gormint spend more on MSPs? Why do you think the 'annadatas' have been chimping out?
You should shout less and read more.
Yeah, buddy. Sure.
his profile banner says, he wants to abolish income tax.
