THE FARMER UNIONS IN NORTH INDIA may be on to the next phase of protests over a legal framework on MSP (minimum support price) for their produce, but Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman seems unperturbed. Her FY25 Budget allocations for agriculture showed no indications of a change in trajectory from the path the BJP-led government has charted since 2021-22—strengthening the post-farmgate ecosystem and not fiddling much with market prices.
Agriculture and allied sectors have seen an annual average growth rate of about 4.2 per cent over the last five years—one of the lowest for any period in the last four decades. Despite the country’s farmers contributing 18.2 per cent to the GDP and 45 per cent of the country’s population being directly employed in it, agriculture and the rural economy have always cribbed about getting step-motherly treatment from the Centre. And that lament is only going to get louder with provisional estimates for 2023-24 suggesting the agri sector grew by an abysmal 1.4 per cent, a huge drop from the 4.7 per cent in 2022-23. This is at the core of the unrest among the farm unions and the big conundrum facing budget architects who seek to craft solutions via government expenditures.
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