The increase in MSP of other crops was also quite measly, he added, noting that the small hike in the base price of Maize would discourage farmers from going in for the much-needed crop diversification to save the precious and depleting water resource.
The Chief Minister noted that the Swaminathan Committee, whose recommendations the Central Government has adamantly refused to accept, had clearly suggested that MSP should be at least 50 percent more than the weighted Average cost of production.
The Government of India is increasingly becoming a bottleneck in the smooth procurement of food grains at minimum support price by making procedures and process more complicated and anti-farmer, he added.