5 months ago
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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressing “alarm connected behalf of the toor dal growers of Karnataka, whose economical endurance is present being placed nether avoidable and unjustifiable hazard owed to procedural hold astatine the Union authorities level”.
Mr. Siddaramaiah, successful his letter, pointed to Government of Karnataka’s connection submitted connected November 6, 2025, seeking contiguous support for MSP-based procurement of toor dal done NAFED and NCCF, and said that nary enactment had been taken truthful acold successful this connection.
He pointed retired successful the missive that during the existent kharif play (2025-26), toor dal has been sown crossed astir 16.80 lakh hectares successful Karnataka, with an expected accumulation of implicit 12.60 lakh tonnes, particularly successful bluish districts.
At present, the exemplary marketplace prices are ranging betwixt ₹5,830 and ₹6,700 per quintal, portion the Minimum Support Price (MSP) announced for toor dal for 2025-26 stands astatine astir ₹8,000 per quintal. The Chief Minister pointed retired that portion the highest arrivals are expected betwixt December 2025, and January 2026, the Union authorities volition unfastened procurement centres lone successful February and March.
Delay hurts
“It is evident that farmers are staring astatine a superior income shock, unless timely and decisive involution is undertaken by the Union government. When the marketplace terms falls beneath MSP, it is not simply a question of economics, it is simply a question of spot betwixt the husbandman and the State. Farmers person sown their crops trusting the MSP assurance fixed by the Government of India,” Mr. Siddaramaiah said successful the letter, adding that each time of hold is pushing Karnataka’s farmers person to distress sales, indebtedness traps and irreversible fiscal damage.
“Any further postponement astatine this captious juncture volition inevitably pb to husbandman unrest, terms collapse, and a superior breakdown of spot successful MSP arsenic a viable nationalist argumentation instrument,” helium said successful the letter.
