Samyukt Kisan Morcha rejects kharif MSP, to launch protests in villages

The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella organisation of astir 500 farmers’ outfits, has decided to clasp protests successful each colony by burning the copies of the authorities bid connected the minimum enactment terms (MSP) for the kharif crops successful this season. The protests volition beryllium held betwixt May 27 and 31, the SKM said successful a connection present connected Friday (May 15, 2026).

The SKM said the announcement of revised MSP exposed the “anti-farmer character” of the Narendra Modi government. “Instead of implementing the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission MSP astatine slightest 50% supra the broad outgo of cultivation (C2+50%), arsenic promised successful the BJP predetermination manifesto of 2014, the Modi Cabinet announced MSP based connected A2+FL (actual paid-out costs and the imputed worth of unpaid household labour) costs that is astir 30% little successful general,” the SKM said.

For paddy, the SKM argued, that the C2+50% terms should person been ₹3,243 per quintal, overmuch higher than ₹2,441 per quintal, fixed by the government. “This means a nonaccomplishment of ₹802 per quintal for farmers. Farmers crossed the state volition proceed to endure immense losses connected 20 crops alone. Since determination is nary procurement system, large traders and their intermediaries volition further exploit farmers, frankincense making the existent nonaccomplishment manifold,” the connection added.

The connection said the revised MSP was a effect of the Modi regime’s “surrender to U.S. imperialism.” “The figures detailing Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) estimation exposure the hollowness of the government’s claims that farmers are receiving remunerative prices. Even these estimates are based connected authoritative projected costs, whereas the existent outgo of cultivation faced by farmers is overmuch higher owed to continuously rising prices of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, diesel, electricity, irrigation, machinery and labour,” the SKM said, adding that the prices of each inputs had skyrocketed successful the past 1 year. “The authorities is present utilizing the excuse of the West Asian situation concern to enforce adjacent much load connected the radical done its austerity call. Fertilizers person already started becoming scarce and hoarders are raking successful immense profits done the achromatic market,” the SKM said.