Wheat market: The price of minimum support

It is an abiding irony of the Centre's flawed food management policy that the agriculture ministry works to maximise foodgrain production while the food, PDS and civil supplies ministry tries to cut the holding cost for grain - and overall food subsidy - by offloading stocks at the earliest . It is an even more stinging irony that when the farmer achieves record production, he is threatened with below-floor prices and distress sales for his produce.

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