The UPA government’s ordinance for a uniform pricing system ‘Fair and Remunerative Price’ (FRP) for the sugarcane growers has naturally invited the wrath of the farmers in Uttar Pradesh – as the price fixed is far below what was paid by the U.P. government last year. While the opposition parties have been fishing in troubled waters now to champion the cause of the farmers, hardly any political party has questioned the flawed agriculture policies pursued by the successive governments at the Centre, which pushed thousands of farmers to commit suicide during the past decade.
Syed Sultan Mohiddin
Kadapa, A.P.